Author: Anthony

It’s been a little while since the last versus episode we did, and what better time to bring it back than to compare the mega behemoth games from Eric Lang, Blood Rage and Rising Sun? To kick things off this episode, we share the answers from listeners for our question of the week, “What’s a game you can win while ignoring key components of the game?” For our acquisition disorders, Anthony looks at Treasure Island and Chris looks at the Alhambra Designer’s Edition. At the Table this week, Anthony reviews City of Iron Second Edition and Chris looks at Manhattan…

This week, we chat about Gem Rush, a Victory Points Game from 2012 which is the latest to get the “Premiere Line” treatment. That means out with the pizza box and the sooty tokens, and in with a new, beautiful edition! We welcome Jeremy Lennert on to the show to talk about the new edition, what has changed from the first edition (and whether it’s worth it for fans of the old edition to take a look), as well as the app that ‘s being developed along side of it. Gem Rush Second Edition: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/567823005/gem-rush-second-edition?ref=nav_search&result=project&term=gem%20rush

As we announced last week, we are taking a break from the regular episodes this week after the MEGA two parter that we dropped last week. If you have not done so, please check out the Fantasy Adventure Designer Roundtable we did with a bunch of really cool folks. We will be back next week with a regular episode. For now, though, we have another kickstarter preview which represents something of a left turn from the products we usually feature. We are happy to bring to you an interview about a brand spanking new RPG system called Overlight, currently running…

Kickstarter is ubiquitous with board gaming as a hobby, so we’re taking a look this week at the two best and two worst campaigns we have each personally backed on Kickstarter thus far. Plus we ask the listeners about their own KS wins and fails. Don’t miss your chance to enter our board game giveaway, exclusively for Producer-level Patreon backers (https://www.patreon.com/bga). For our acquisition disorders this week, Anthony offers an early hands on impression of Thanos Rising, the new avengers game out this week, and Chris digs into Rice Dice – A Spirits of the Rice Paddy Dice Game. At…

We are calling an audible! We originally intended to release Part Two of our fantasy adventure discussion one week after Part One. However, why wait? We’ve decided to just give you double the content for the week, instead. Because of the double content week, we are going to give you Preview Series episode next week, then get back to our regular series of episodes one week after that. In Part Two of our conversation with Isaac, Frank, and Tristan, we talk about mechanisms that did and didn’t work in their games, as well as designers they get excited about and…

Here at ENGN, we always have fun when we bring a special guest on to share about their projects and their passion. For this episode, we have tripled down and brought together three designers whose passion led them to producing three massive, exciting fantasy games. We are happy to have the designers of Gloomhaven, The City of Kings, and Gloom of Kilforth, respectively, talk about their love of fantasy games and some interesting aspects to designing and producing them. Not only that, we took the majority of the questions from fans who were good enough to respond on Facebook and…

This week on BGA, Anthony and Chris are looking at 10 games that need expansions. Seriously, get on it. Make these! First up, though, we have three new Patreon backers – thank you to William, Michael and Antoine. You guys rock! If you haven’t yet, make sure to check out our Patreon page at https://patreon.com/bga. We’re having a contest the end of this month only for Producer-level backers and higher. Get in on it now. We also take a look at the new Terraforming Mars steam beta, and then read listener answers to our question of the week, “what game…

Many solo and cooperative gamers love Legendary Encounters: Alien. However, for as good as that game is, it doesn’t replicate the emotions of the original movie – the suspense, the dread, or the desperation to survive. Lifeform, currently on Kickstarter, aims to bring you just that. It is a one vs. many game where an unstoppable alien being has boarded your mining ship, and you have to scramble out of the ship as best you can. We get into some design questions about the one vs. many aspects of the game, as well as the solo mode that you can…

We welcome Kevin Erskine back to the show to continue… not talking about the current hotness! Last week, we went back and looked at a classic in the genre. This week, we look at more older games that we like, but which may have slipped under your radar. First, Jason takes a look at a stealth based cooperative game set in World War II called V-Commandos (3:27). Anthony, of course, sees Jason’s thematic cooperative game and counters with an older Euro – Troyes (7:52). Kevin jumps into the fun with a cooperative tower defense game, King’s Armory (14:02), then Jason…

Unlike most preview series episodes where we interview the designer or publisher, we were not able to get AJ Porfirio of Van Ryder Games on the show due to his being incredible busy. However, two good friends of the show stepped up to have a great chat about this product – Official ENGN Kickstarter correspondent Liz Davidson, as well as Wendy Barlow from the Singlehandedly blog. Did you love choose-your-own-adventure novels as a kid, or adventure video games like Broken Sword or Monkey Island? The Graphic Novel Adventure series, currently live in Kickstarter, takes those experiences and presents them in…