Nerding Out

We nerd out about our favorite Halloween board and video games! We read what some of your favorite Halloween games are as well and come up with some Halloween Ridiculous Themes.

Danny and Riley read twitter replies to what gateway game got folks into playing more board games, talk about the games that most frequently make it to the table for game nights, talk about our moms, and more.

We nerd out with Rob Daviau! We talk about Pandemic Legacy Season 0, Restoration Games, quiet neighbors that kept to themselves, and much much more. Plus, Rob pitches a ridiculous theme so well that you'll be asking him to make it ASAP!

We have guest Brandt Brinkerhoff, designer of Oros (Winner of The Board Game Design Lab Challenge 2020 and the Ion Award Strategy Game 2020, as well as a finalist in The Board Game Workshop 2020) and nerd out real hard talking about making high quality components for your prototype.

Link to Brandt Brinkerhoff's Youtube tutorial for boards: https://youtu.be/pwSj83R24xI

Link to Oros page and sign up for updates: https://www.aescgames.com/oros-subscribe

We talk about villains and the different types of villains through out all forms of media. Dustin Dowdle (Board Game Workshop Podcast, Odd Fox Games, BGDG.games) joins us again. We each come up with a ridiculous villains for our Ridiculous Theme Game this week. 

In the Hosts corner, Danny Dowdle for Ameritrash games! In the guests corner, Dustin Dowdle (Game Designer, Odd Fox Games, The Board Game Workshop Podcast, BGDg.games, AND Danny's brother) representing Euro games! We have fun talking American, Euro, Mass Market, and other games. And we have a special assemble it yourself type of Ridiculous Theme.

As a couple of Ameritrash boys, we talk about luck in games. Also what gives a game replayability and value to us. Nerd out with us on twitter @NerdOutWithUs

We talk about the different story telling methods used in Board Games, what games we'd like to see in other entertainment (TV, movies, comics, etc.), and play #Ridiculous Theme. But as always, off topic ends up being on topic over here. 

We nerd out over CMON Massive Darkness for an hour and then nerd out about Massive Darkness 2 for a while more. Then we reskin Massive Darkness with a Ridiculous Theme! If you've never played it, then we dive pretty deep into how the game works. If you have and don't want to hear us drone on about it, you can skip to around the hour mark and just hear us drool over the Massive Darkness 2 Kickstarter.

We talk about the most exciting thing in the board game world, rulebooks. Hopefully helpful for you board game designers out there. If not, at least we had fun talking about it.