Author: Anthony
Anthony
Anthony lives and plays games in Philadelphia, PA. A lover of complex strategy, two-player war games, and area control, Anthony is always eager to try a new game, even if he's on rule-reading duty.
Holy misprinted meeple, has it been a year already?! Board Gamers Anonymous celebrates this week with our very first birthday episode – discussing some of what has made the last year so special and a few of the games that we feel defined our tabletop experience in the last 12 months and what we’re looking forward to in the next year. We’ll be talking about GenCon as well as a couple of big announcements for upcoming episodes that you won’t want to miss! Shout it From the Tabletop It’s Gencon! We’re talking about the recently completed show and the litany…
A look at each day’s most interesting and informative threads from the Board Game Geek general gaming forum, August 14-20. “Last Week at the ‘Geek” is usually published every Thursday. This is an abridged version; the full-length article can be found on my blog at Board Game Geek. The highlight of the past week was the grass-roots Twitter-based convention that first took root on BGG among those poor unfortunates who couldn’t make it to Gen-Con. FRIDAY, 8/15 #GenCant14 posted by gibbous You wonder why anyone didn’t anyone think of that before? No matter; at least somebody thought of it this…
This week, Chris covers four hot new games on Kickstarter, including the iOS version of one of the breakout Kickstarter games of 2013. Boss Monster: Dungeon-Building Card Game for iOS & Android https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/brotherwise/boss-monster-dungeon-building-card-game-for-ios-an Pocket Dungeon Quest https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1062222805/pocket-dungeon-quest Lift Off! – Get me off this Planet https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ebaraf/lift-off-get-me-off-this-planet AGENTS OF SMERSH 2ND EDITION – THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1545517208/agents-of-smersh-2nd-edition-the-ultimate-collecti Connect with Chris and the whole BGA team on BaordGameGeek.com in the Board Gamers Anonymous guild.
Stop by our sister blog on Board Game Geek for a look at each day’s most interesting and informative threads from the BGG general gaming forum, August 4-13. The Week in ‘Geek is now published every Thursday. Alphonse and Gaston are comic strip characters famous for their unctuous courtesy: “After you, Alphonse!” “No, after you, Gaston!” In the sphere of metagaming, there are some who always want to be last, who need to go last. But that’s not always a good thing. Many games offer the choice of turn order, which adds yet another layer to developing a strategy.…
Chris takes a look at some interesting new Kickstarter campaigns and checks back on some of the ones recently covered to see if they funded or not, and if not, what went wrong. Musée: Alf Seegert’s New Bookshelf Game of Classic Art! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/167427101/musee-alf-seegerts-new-bookshelf-game-of-classic-a?ref=users Armymals Board Game https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1084608523/armymals-board-game?ref=discovery STREET DICE, Racing For Pinks https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/45166364/street-dice-racing-for-pinks?ref=users Trekking the National Parks – The Board Game 8/2/2014 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/charliebink/trekking-the-national-parks-the-board-game?ref=users Don’t forget to check in with Kicking the Habit on Facebook and Twitter (@BGAPodcast).
As the summer wears on, the BGA crew is completely scattered on vacations, but no worries, we have technology! Drew and Daniel dial in remotely and the four of us get together to discuss a boat load of awesome games, including our feature for this week: the near mythical Marvel Dice Masters: Avengers vs. X-Men. We’ll also take a look at Airlines Europe, Bruxelles 1893, and Zombies!!! (yes, THREE exclamation points). Acquisition Disorder Corner So there’s a convention going on – if you haven’t heard. A little thing called Gencon is loading up our lists with dozens of new games we’d like…
Chris takes a look at some interesting new Kickstarter campaigns and checks back on some of the ones recently covered to see if they funded or not, and if not, what went wrong. Watch It Played – Season 4 https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/watch-it-played-season-4 Unpub – The Unpublished Games Network https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1145484738/unpub-the-unpublished-games-network?ref=users Casual Game Insider Magazine – Coming to Newsstands! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stratusgames/casual-game-insider-magazine-year-3?ref=users Don’t forget to connect with the BGA crew on Facebook and Twitter (@BGAPodcast).
The guys are all together again this week, including some remote dial in, to discuss a number of games we were able to get to the table recently. The list keeps growing so we’re going to jam as many as we can into this week’s episode for discussion, including our feature review of the extremely satisfying new worker placement game (and point bonanza), Russian Railroads, along with recent play throughs of Steam Park, Flashpoint, Guild Hall, and Concept. At the Table We have a full table this week with four games we were able to pull out and play together…
(Geek Peeks is published every Monday.) A Look at the best daily threads from the Board Game Geek general gaming forum. MONDAY, JULY 14 Which Movie Would Make a Horrible Theme for a Game submitted by 80sgamer Not surprisingly, this made for a lively discussion. There are a lot of cheesy movies out there (see: Mystery Science Theater 3000), but I picture most of them as early Ameritrash tabletops or 8-bit video games. The original poster brought up a great movie, Midnight Cowboy, and a good example of a potentially horrible theme. The suggestions ranged from cult films to cheese…
This week Chris takes a look at the following games funding on Kickstarter: Flash Point – Honor & Duty Expansion https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2012515236/flash-point-call-of-duty-expansion?ref=users Core Worlds Digital https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1468883172/core-worlds-digital?ref=users Everything Alhambra! – Big Box + Special Edition & More https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1016374822/everything-alhambra-big-box-special-edition-and-mo?ref=users Zombicide: Season 3 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/coolminiornot/zombicide-season-3?ref=users Don’t forget to check out BoardGameGeek and discuss with us more about these games and get up to date insights on Kickstarter’s hottest projects.