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  • The Board Game Review Room: VivaJava

    I backed VivaJava in Kickstarter because I like the guys who publish it, quite

    frankly.

    As you may or may not know, I am a fan of games with theme and strange themes

    usually make for strange games too, so I thought I’d give it a go.

    After a long time of wanting to review it, we managed to get to the table and

    see if the game is for us.

    VivaJava is a game for up to 8 people in which the players have to create

    their own blend of coffee and  then sell it. With a bit of bluffing, a bit of
    negotiation, some worker placement and lovely art direction, you’d think this
    game has something for everyone so let’s find out!

    Hope you enjoy the show!

    21 min
  • The Board Room episode two The Counters Board Game Cafe and StakBots
    By Dr Mike Reddy
    00:00 Introduction - http://www.gmsmagazine.com/podcasts/the-boardroom
    00:02 Interview with Hannah and Ryan of the Counters The Board Game Cafe, Cardiff - https://www.facebook.com/countersBGC
    00:13 Interview with Tom Nolan, designer of StakBots the card game, and their upcoming KickStarter for the expansion - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/643459158/stak-bots-battling-card-game-expansion
    00:35 Pandemic: The Cure, the dice game prototype - http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/150658/pandemic-the-cure - with Michael from the Little Metal Dog Show Podcast - http://littlemetaldog.com/ - and Chris from The Sausage Factory Podcast - http://spong.com/podcasts/tsf/
    01:08 End credits
    1 hr 9 min
  • The RPG Interview Room - Cthulhu Britannica Boxet Kickstarter with Stuart Boon

    The Cthulhu Britannica London Boxet for Call of Cthulhu Kickstarter campaign has been very successful.

    And it’s not surprising because the team behind it are as passionate as they’re
    experienced.

    To find out more about what sort of thinking has gone behind the production

    of all the writing in this project, I got together wit Stuart Boon, the line
    manager for the Cthulhu Britannica series of books from Cubicle 7.

    Apart from making even more excited about the Kickstarter, he also was very

    reassuring about the content and future of the whole line.

    Hope you enjoy the interview!

    30 min
  • The Boardgame Review Room: Pandante

    Let me make this *very* clear: I don’t like Poker. At all. I find it a pretty

    pointless game that people take too seriously and doesn’t serve any purpose
    because I don’t find it fun.

    I know a lot of people like it. I know a lot of people sing its praises, but

    it’s just not for me.

    Therefore, when Sirlin

    Games asked me if I wanted to playtest and review their game Pandante, I was
    a bit.. err… “meh!”. I was feeling that way because Pandante is, basically,
    Poker with a few bits and bobs added.

    The bits and bobs added, though, turn it into a game that I was curious

    enough to actually say “yes, I’ll review it”.

    Pandante is like Poker, but with lying, bluffing (no… bluffing more than in

    normal Poker) and abilities. And Pandas! Lots and lots of Pandas!

    So I sat down with Michael Chamberlain and Max Murray in the review room and we

    played it. And we recorded our impressions.

    If you are on time, you might want to head now to Kickstarter and back this project.

    If you aren’t on time, you might want to get a copy… it’s been funded, so it

    should be available.

    If it isn’t available, get it from someone else. Just make sure you get this

    game.

    17 min
  • The Dragonmeet Room with Cat Tobin

    Dragonmeet comes one more year and things are

    changing!

    Things are changing because they’re getting better and more interesting,

    which is why I thought it’d be a good idea to invite Cat Tobin, one of the
    organisers and masterminds who’ve put the show together to ask her about the new
    goodness coming in!

    This year there is a more comprehensive selection of seminars, traders role

    playing and board games organised, an art exhibition and a charity auction, this
    year promises to be really special.

    Hope you enjoy the interview and it inspires you to come to the show in

    London!

    23 min
  • The RPG Interview Room Cthulhu London Boxset Kickstarter from Cubicle 7

    Boxsets where the norm when I got into roleplaying games. The gorgeous boxes

    from the D&D range and many other games of the mid 80s marked the format
    that turned my summer – and winter – afternoons and evenings into amazing
    times.

    Of course among those boxes were a few Cthulhu related boxes. And,

    unfortunately, then they went away. That’s not to say there haven’t been *great*
    game material written for Call of Cthulhu, but boxes? Not as many as I’d like!

    Enter Cubicle 7!

    The C7 humans have had the Cthulhu Britannica series goign on for a while and

    some fantastic products have been released. If you haven’t got Shadows Over
    Scotland, please do yourself a favour and get a copy. Now they’re upping their
    game and releasing the London version of their Cthulhu Britannica series, and
    for that they’ve gone to Kickstarter to get some money.

    But is it worth backing this? I think it is and thus I’ve backed it, and

    hopefully the interview with Dom McDower-Thomas, Cubicle 7 mastermind will
    hopefully help you find reasons to back this project too!

    36 min
  • The RPG Interview Room: Jim Pinto. Protocol Game Series Kickstarter

    Few authors, if any,  provide with as many  roleplaying games as Jim Pinto. The

    mastermind behind Postworld Games keeps churning ideas and turning them into
    games at a speed that makes the Enterprise seem like a child’s tricycle. 

    Mr Pinto, friend of the show, has been at it again. Now he’s in Kickstarter

    offering 15 games for a price that is more than reasonable.

    As always, he offers great value for money *and* great entertainment!

    Hope you enjoy the interview!

    36 min
  • The Boardgame Interview Room: Fortress Moon in Kickstarter

    Some of us like the sort of retro Sci-Fi look from the 50s and 60s and also

    love the movies from that time. As someone who’s first sci-fi experience was
    Forbidden Planet, the cheesy and wonderful future imagined at the time was, and
    indeed still is, incredibly attractive.

    That’s one of the reasons I felt compelled to look further into Fortress

    Moon, a game by Thorin and Alan Thompson.

    Fortress Moon is a heavy strategy game that, if funded, will come with 280

    miniatures and a ton of components for a 2 to 4 players experience.

    In this interview, I spoke to Thorin and Alan about the game and what makes

    it special.

    Hope you enjoy it!

    1 min
  • The Boardroom - Episode one!

    By Doctor Mike Reddy

    This podcast was recorded between the 11th October and the 11th November 2013

    00:00 Introduction

    02:58 What We’ve Been Playing:

    • 02:58 Dungeon Roll (Paco)
  • 12:12 Stone Age (Kara)
  • 12:48 Love Letter (Kara and Paco)
  • 13:15 Fauna (Kara)
  • 14:36 Pixel Lincoln (Paco)
  • 17:15 Mice and Mystics (Paco)
  • 22:33 Battleships: The Card Game (Dr. Mike)
  • 26:11 Monopoly Deal (Kara)

    • 27:38 Preparation for Essen (Paco and Kara)

    Paco and Kara tell us of their plans for Spiel in Essen. Of course it is done and dusted now and they are safely back in the UK. Look out for news and interviews about Essen on this feed.

    30:58 Teaser for Monopoly Wars Part One (Dr. Mike)

    Dr. Mike teases the interview with Chris Michaud of the Flip the Table podcast, about the virtues of Monopoly; see later in this episode! We will be revisiting this debate with future guests arguing against the dreaded ‘M’ word of gaming…

     32:12 More Games Paco has been playing:

    • 32:12 Spartacus (Paco and Kara) -Dr. Mike corrects the pronunciation of “gladiator”
  • 37:06 CO2 (Paco) including mentions of
  • 40:00 Terra Mystica (Paco)
  • 40:38 CaRBoNiCiTy (Dr. Mike)

    • 48:30 Teaser for the Boardgame Review Room: First Play Reviews (Paco)

    •  53:01 Ladies Slacks [The IT Crowd] (Kara)

     54:46 Teaser for Android and iOS Board Games (Dr. Mike)

    • 55:53 Words with Friends: The Board Game (Dr. Mike and Kara)
  • 57:36 Civilisation (Kara)

    • 58:06 In which we cover old ground 

    • 58:06 Battleships: The Card Game (redux)
  • 58:30 Mice and Mystics (redux)
  •  59:16 Love Letter (redux)
  • 01:00:28 Paco believes in Santa!
  • 01:00:59 Zombicide
  • 01:01:35 Santa IS real, and so is the Tooth Fairy!
  • 01:05:00 Essen (redux)
  • 01:08:20 BSc Computer Game Development

    • 01:11:00 Part Two: Interview with Chris Michaud from the Flip the Table Podcast

    01:11:46 Introduction and Counters Board Game Cafe

     01:13:18 What We’ve Been Playing (redux) including:

    • 01:13:48 Nibble Nibble (Dr. Mike)
  • 01:15:01 Rhino Rampage (Dr. Mike)
  • 01:15:56 Forbidden Island (Dr. Mike and Chris)
  • 01:16:10 Forbidden Desert (Chris)
  • 01:16:58 Roll Through the Ages (Chris)
  • 01:17:57 Forbidden Desert [redux]  (Chris)
  • 01:19:02 Dominion (Chris)

    • 01: 21:00 Monopoly Wars debate with Chris from Flip the Table

    01:52:36 The Outro and Belated Goodbyes from Paco and Kara

    1 hr 55 min
  • The Boardgame Review Room: Love Letter

    Compact, light, gorgeous, fun, simple, engaging… Those are words are words any

    game designer would like to  see or hear applied to their game, and indeed a lot
    of games promise all those things so you, the gamer, will part with your
    hard-earned cash and buy it. Or get it for Christmas. That’d be OK too.

    Well, Love Letter, from Alderac Entertainment Group promises all those

    things, and by damn it delivers them!

    We sat down to take a look at this game, played the heck out of it and

    decided to put everything on record so you can make an informed decision about
    buying it.

    Because you’ll want to buy it…

    16 min

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