Going Analog Show

We have prolific content creator and Twitch streamer Beneeta Kaur on the show to trade opinions on our favorite expansions and underrated card games. And if you want to become our board game BFF, we discuss what qualities we value in a good gaming partner.

Timeline:

• 3.46 - Shoe's game pick: Earth.
• 8:47 - Beneeta's game pick: Mille Fiori.
• 12:51 - Christina's game pick: Rolling Heights.
• 16:22 - Shoe's topic: Our favorite underrated card games.
• 38:02 - Christina's topic: What makes a good gaming friend?
• 50:46 - Beneeta's topic: Great expansions.

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Indie games publisher Resonym does things differently. Just take a look at its recent Glitch Squad (a party game about faulty forensic science), Surrealist Dinner Party (you can guess what that's about), and Buffalo (a party game that makes you less prejudiced). We love the company's socially conscious design philosophy, and Mary Flanagan (founder, professor, game designer, and artist) just co-authored an entire book about the history of colonialism in board games, Playing Oppression. We snagged Mary and fellow Resonym game designer Max Seidman to discuss all of the above -- plus how much cooperation we really want in cooperative games.

Timeline:

• 4:11 - Christina's game pick: Shamans.
• 5:47 - Max's game pick: Lost Ruins of Arnak.
• 7:01 - Mary's game pick: MonsDRAWsity.
• 8:46 - Max's topic: The four categories of interaction in co-op games.
• 23:22 - Mary's topic: The long, sordid history of colonialism in board games.
• 41:36 - Christina's topic: Hiding social good in games (embedded game design).

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Sometimes substantive board game discussion topics are tiring. And pretty much all the time, we play a lot of new games. So this episode, Shoe and Christina just talk about some new, sexy games in a variety of sizes. HOT!

Timeline:

• 3:19 - Christina's big game: Mosaic: A Story of Civilization.

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Plaid Hat CEO Colby Dauch and Marketing Manager Niki Shults team up to discuss some hot (spiteful content creation, life with mega publisher Asmodee, etc.) and not-so-hot (Candy Land??) on the Going Analog Podcast this week. They've put out some incredible and memorable board games over the years, so give them a listen!

Timeline:

• 4:00 - Christina's game pick: Motor City.

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This episode guest stars prolific and punny content creator Eric Yurko from What's Eric Playing?, a site full of fantastic board game photography and 1000+ (!) reviews. And as a founding committee member of the American Tabletop Awards (and a big fan of cocktails) Eric is THE go-to guy to talk games...especially which ones to play at which drinking establishments.

Timeline:

• 5:45 - Eric's game pick: Mists over Carcassonne.

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We're a podcast! Therefore, we're contractually obligated to tell you our Games of the Year. But who wants to hear just Christina and Shoe squabble about their faves of 2022? Everyone would rather hear us and Mik and Starla from Our Family Plays Games squabble, so far be it for us to withhold this top-notch content from our listeners! So get ready for lots of discussions (and lots of yelling at Christina for cheating on her picks) in this episode!

Timeline:

Intro (before we get into the awards):

• 2:32 - Starla's game pick: Wonderland's War.

The 2022 Games of the Year:

• 10:35 - Party games of 2022.
• 23:32 - Light games of 2022.
• 35:44 - Medium games of 2022.
• 50:22 - Heavy games of 2022.

Check out website to read the list of winners!

*Note: Our Family Plays Games is still working on their own Games of 2022, so their picks for this show are "as of today" but not necessarily final. Also, some games appear in different categories due to everyone's subjective opinions on weight.

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For our 100th episode, we had to make sure everyone's topics were epic. So we rounded up some of the Going Analog crew, including OG contributor Nick Suttner and writer Henry Stenhouse, to discuss...

Timeline:

• 7:19 - Henry's topic: Board games that stand up to 100 plays...or more.
• 26:56 - Christina's topic: Your favorite board gaming moment ever.
• 39:22 - Shoe's topic: BoardGameGeek's top 100...save one game, kill one game, swap in one game.
• 1:02:32 - Nick's topic: Your favorite memory from 100 episodes of The Going Analog Podcast.

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We're back from chilly Philly where the PAX Unplugged board game convention just wrapped up. It's our fourth con of the year -- you'd think we've seen it all by now but nope! There were still plenty of new board games to discover and try out.

With us to discuss the show are Kasey Girven (better known as Brain in a Jar) and Miguel Plylar-Moore (aka Johnny Deathhawk). They create/stream board game content -- and she's a neuroscientist! And they love to talk board gaming, so have a listen as we discuss...

Timeline:

• 3:29 - Shoe's game pick: Deal with the Devil

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We're back from BoardGameGeek's big show, BGG.CON 2022! Your hosts Christina and Shoe sit down to talk about their Top 10 games panel with Our Family Plays Games, stand-up comedy with Grant Lyon, our own live Board Game Quiz Show events, and of course, all the great games they got a chance to check out.

Timeline:

• 1:47 - BGG.Con highlights, including our live Board Game Quiz Show!

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We recently spent six solid days playing board games. Seriously. It was exhausting -- but amazingly fun.

We blame Going Analog contributor Jess Yi, who visited and forced us to play one board game after another. At the end, with bloodshot eyes and brains working at half speed, Shoe and Jess picked three games each to discuss. Hear their thoughts on...

Timeline:

• 2:52 - Knight Fall

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