Harvest Phase

Time is of the essence this week as we use time as a resource in Merkator, discuss how all of the elders in Nusfjord are various Emmitt Browns, and then dive into Destinies where time proved the most worthy of adversaries. Finally, in Off Brand, we discuss how dealing with art and time shape us, and how we wish we would see more reflection on that in the board game space.

Fresh Plays:
04:00 Super-Skill Pinball: 4-Cade (Geoff Engelstein, WizKids)
17:30 Merkator (Uwe Rosenberg, Lookout Games)
33:15 Nusfjord (Uwe Rosenberg, Lookout Games)

Featured Game:
47:10 Destinies (Michal Golebioski, Filip Milunski, Lucky Duck Games)

Off Brand - Reflection on Art and How it Shapes Us
1:24:09 What Makes This Song Stink? Episode 3 - Weezer - Beverly Hills (Pat Finnerty)
1:29:38 Action Button (Tim Rogers)

This week on Harvest Phase, strange theories and hard science prove the origins of Welcome to the Jungle. Oh, and we discuss board games and “The Funk of 24 years,” or the effect Phish fandom has had on my life.

Fresh Plays:
10:01 Honey Buzz (Paul Salomon, Elf Creek Games)
24:15 Concordia (Mac Gerdts, PD-Verlag, Rio Grande Games)

Featured Game:
39:27 MicroMacro: Crime City (Johannes Sich, Pegasus Spiele)

Off Brand - Two Paths Diverged in a Yellow Wood
Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage (Limp Bizkit, 4 Dollar Water, Y’all)
Phish (Twenty Years Later, I’m Still Upside Down)

We begin by briefly discussing the catharsis of getting rid of games, then jump into the games we played this week, our featured title, The Search for Planet X, and then in Off Brand, we discuss board game mechanisms that are finding their way into video games, specifically, Slay the Spire, and Hades. 

Time stamps:
06:10 It's a Wonderful World (Frederic Guevara, La Boite de Jeu)
11:39 Aquatic (Ivan Tuzovsky, Cosmodrome Games)
24:00 Fallen Angels (John Kean, Side Room Games)

Featured game:
38:20 The Search for Planet X (Matthew O’ Malley & Ben Rosset, Renegade Game Studio)

Off Brand:
70:00 Slay the Spire
93:00 Hades

Welcome to Harvest Phase. This episode 0 is a “getting to know you” episode that introduces you to me (David) and my co-host Marissa. The goal of this episode is to give us a taste of the types of games we play and the intention of the show. This is a great place to start before diving in to the longest episodes.