Patrick and Eric catch up after a break.  They were able to meet up at Eric's house for a weekend of gaming and cover many of the games they had discussed wanting to play together on previous episodes plus a few new things.

Patrick and Eric catch up on recent plays and talk about games from Daily Magic Games and their current kickstarter of three games they had a chance to play.

Recorded on 11/20/21

Recently Played Games:

Patrick:

• Gravwell 2nd Edition (3rd)
• Whirling Witchcraft

Eric:

• The Crew: Mission Deep Sea
• Furnace

DMG Games We’ve Played:

• Go Nuts for Donuts
• 10 Minute Heist: The Wizard’s Tower
• Horizons
• Food Truck Champion
• Kitten Klash
• Swinging Jivecat Voodoo Lounge

Three new Valeria games from Daily Magic Games:

• Dice Kingdoms of Valeria is a 1-to-6 player roll & write game designed by Levi Mote with art by The Mico
• Thrones of Valeria is a 2-to-6 player trick-taking and rank manipulation game designed by Matt Jacobs with art by The Mico. 
• Siege of Valeria is a solo-player castle defense game designed by Glenn Flaherty with art by The Mico.

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Flatout Games is a board game design collaborative that was founded in 2017 by Molly Johnson, Robert Melvin, and Shawn Stankewich. They are “focused on creating innovative and elegant game experiences” and “love puzzly games with simple rules, high replayability, and great tension and decision-making, typically with low-luck, high-skill euro-style mechanisms.” 

As a design collaborative, they have several published designs, including the 2018 Cardboard Edison and LUCI award finalist Point Salad (AEG), Public Market (Talon Strikes Studios), Dollars to Donuts (Crafty Games), Abstract Academy (Crafty Games), Truffle Shuffle (AEG), and TEN (AEG).

In early 2019 Flatout Games created The Flatout Games CoLab, allowing the founding members of Flatout Games to team up with established and emerging designers in the board game industry and make games together. The CoLab has published Calico and Cascadia, and is currently working on publishing Verdant.

Eric:

• Point Salad
• Public Market
• Dollars to Donuts
• TEN
• Calico
• Cascadia
• Verdant

Patrick

• Point Salad
• TEN
• Calico
• Cascadia
• Verdant

Verdant Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/flatoutgames/verdant

Online solo play here:

Cascadia: https://cascadiagame.github.io/

Verdant: https://verdantgame.github.io/

Beth Sobel kickstarter

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bethsobel/river-and-stone-playing-cards

Recorded 9/12

Discussion

Inka / Marcus Brand - Married couple, won Kennerspiel des Jahres for the Exit series

Patrick

• La Boca
• Village - take actions - take time, when you cross the time track someone dies and they go into the book of the villagers or anonymous graves
• Rajas
• Exit series
• Orleans: Invasion (with Reinr Stockhausen) - Invasion co-op and prosperity scenario (other stuff in box too)
• Murano - glass factories of Venice and gondoliers moving around the outside of the board in a rondel like mechanism
• Word Slam
• Noch Mal (Encore) roll and write 

Eric

• Rajas of the Ganges
• Rajas: Dice Charmers
• La Boca
• Word Slam
• Exit series (some with Ralph Querfurth)

Other notable games:

• Saint Malo (roll-and-write)
• Rise of Queensdale (legacy/campaign)

Available online (all on Yucata):

• Rajas of the Ganges
• Rajas: Dice Charmers
• Murano
• Noch Mal app

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Recorded 7/31/2021

BGA:

• Dice Hospital

In Person Gaming: (New games to Patrick/Eric in bold)

Patrick

Work Lunch Games

• Dex games, since we couldn't play those on line — Meeple Circus, Junk Art
• Pandemic: The Cure
• Mama Mia

Game Night Light

• Just One
• Wits and Wagers: Vegas

 D20  

• Imperium (Not good with four players)
• Glory to Rome
• Krass Kariert (Available as Dealt!)
• Adrenaline

4th of July meetup

• Century
• Sagrada
• King of Tokyo
• Horrified

Eric

CraigCon - Day One

• Marvel United
• Miyabi
• 7 Wonders
• Skull King
• Dead Man’s Draw
• Diamant (Available as Incan Gold)
• Bullet♥︎
• Fantasy Realms

CraigCon - Day Two

• Air, Land, & Sea
• Unmatched: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Old West Empresario
• Era: Medieval Age
• Dune: Imperium
• Brew
• Cubitos
• Nidavellir
• Pairs

CraigCon - Day Three

• Paleo

Part two of the episode discussing favorite themes and games that may or may not align with that theme.

Treasure Hunting 

• Fortune and Glory 
• Karuba 
• Artifacts Inc. 
• Lost Ruins of Arnak 
• Fireball Island 
• Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul-Kar
• Tobago
• The Adventurers: The Temple of Chac
• The Adventurers: Pyramid of Horus
• Thebes
• Luxor
• Deckscape: The Mystery of Eldorado

Heists

• Burgle Bros 
• Burgle Bros 2
• Deckscape: Heist in Venice
• Caper
• The Mansky Caper 
• Cash and Guns?

Steampunk

• Spyrium
• Steampunk Rally
• Mission Red Planet
• Scythe
• City of Gears
• Quicksilver/Kings of Air and Steam/Aether Captains

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Patrick and Eric discuss their three favorite themes in game. This is the start of a series since they ran out of time covering three categories.

• Amusement Parks
  • Dinosaur Island - David Gilmore, Brian Lewis/Pandasaurus 
  • Steam Park Aureliano Buonfino, Lorenzo Silva,
  • Lorenzo Tucci Sorrentino / Cranio Creations
  • Unfair - Joel Finch / CMON
  • Arcadia - Greg Bush, Phil R. Chase / APE games
  • Coaster Park - Scott Almes / Pandasaurus Games
  • Grand Carnival - Rob Cramer / Uproarious Games  

• City building / planning
  • Suburbia - Ted Alspach / Bezier
  • Urban Sprawl - Chad Jensen / GMT
  • Cities: Skylines – The Board Game
  • High Rise - Gil Hova / Formal Ferret
  • Sprawlopolis - Steven Aramini, Danny Devine, Paul Kluka / Button Shy
  • Quadropolis - François Gandon / DOW
  • Cloud City - Phil Walker-Harding / blue orange
  • Bloom town - Asger Harding Granerud, Daniel Skjold Pedersen / Sidekick games
  • Welcome to Centerville - Chad Jenson / GMT

• Civilization Building 
  • Advanced Civ Lauren Banerd, Jim Eliason, Jeff Groteboer, Bruce Harper + 6 more / Avalon Hill
  • Mega Civ - Flo de Haan, John Rodriguez, Francis Tresham / 999 Games
  • Through the Ages - Vlaada Chvátil / CGE
  • Sid Meier's Civilization: The Board Game - Kevin Wilson / Fantasy Flight
  • Civilization: A New Dawn - James Kniffen / Fantasy Flight
  • The Golden Ages - Luigi Ferrini / Quined Games
  • Tapestry - Jamey Stegmaier / Stonemaier

     

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After the following tweet by Bruno Faduti and the backlash on twitter…..

Patrick and Eric decided to have a discussion about drinking at conventions and their thoughts and experiences.

Breakfasts at Conventions

Tim Viring @tim_virnig (Patrick went with Tim and Asdruval Cifuentes @retroboardgamer the name I forgot on the podcast - Patrick)

Since recording Faduti has posted a response on his blog here.

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