Author: Anthony

We’re excited to bring you another contest opportunity this month, sponsored by Geeks 1st. Geeks 1st specializes in producing modular game organizers for a range of different game types, including board games, deck builders, CCGs, and more. To help you get the most out of your collection, we’re partnering with Geeks 1st to provide three lucky winners with the opportunity to fix their games and make them look nice and organized. Entering is easy. Simply click here or the link below to get started, tell us about the game you’d like fixed, and then submit an image on our Facebook…

This week, Jason has a chat with Viktor Peter and David Turczi about their latest project, Cerebria: The Inside World. Mindclash Games has certainly earned some momentum with Trickerion and Anachrony before it. Now they hope to keep it moving with this complex, faction vs. faction game where different aspects of a person’s psyche vie for ultimate control. Viktor and David talk about the game’s origin, mechanisms, levels of interaction, and solo play. As of this recording, you have less than 10 days to go in the campaign, so check it out! If you haven’t yet, be sure to connect…

Chris and Anthony are back with another BGG Hotness review, giving you a rundown of the 15 hottest games on BGG right now, why they’re there, and whether we’re equally hyped about them. To kick this week’s episode off, we announced a brand new contest. If you haven’t yet, make sure to check out our Fix My Game! Contest, sponsored by Geeks 1st. You can win a gift certificate to Geeks 1st for modular game organizers of your choice. Our question of the week this week asked listeners what game they are tired of hearing other people dump on. Find…

I am not the biggest fan of adventure games. I like them well enough, and if they have well-crafted miniatures in them, I’ll buy them (against better judgment), but they don’t capture me the same way a puzzley euro will. Which is why I was so incredibly happy to have found Legends of Andor – a game that bucks many of the issues I have with standard dice-based adventure games and produces a memorable and thematic gameplay experience alongside engaging, intellectually stimulating mechanics. This is a game I’ve had my eyes on for some time, and for whatever reason never…

Medieval Europe was a violent place. Kingdoms, empires, and religious territories battled for land, supremacy, and the hearts and minds of the continent, and Swords & Sails does its very best to reflect what that looked and felt like. When I first opened Swords & Sails I was blown away by just how much stuff is in this box. I’m a euro gamer, but I am not quite old enough to have enjoyed the golden age of dudes on a map in the 1980s. So the epic armies, boxes of bits, and massive maps overflowing from cardboard boxes doesn’t have…

It’s been a couple weeks since Anthony and Jason reviewed recent releases, so guess what? It’s time for some rapid fire! This week, we’re digging into 7 games that have been released in the last two months, featuring some of the big name games that dropped at Gen Con. Join us for reviews of: Paramedics: Clear! Flatline Deckscape Escape from 100 Million B.C. Caverna: Cave vs. Cave Fate of the Elder Gods Spirit Island If you haven’t yet, be sure to connect with us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/boardgamersanonymous), Twitter (http://twitter.com/bgapodcast), and on our website (www.www.boardgamersanonymous.com). You can support the show as…

Wizards Wanted’s background shines through in almost every way – from the overproduction to the low price point, to the middle-range of difficult and accessibility of the game’s rules and mechanism. It’s a unique creation that I can’t see any hobby publisher producing, and yet, despite all that, I think it’s a good thing. This is the type of game that only a big box manufacturer could pull off, and it manages to find a hole in our hobby that I didn’t previously realize existed, and fill it. These are good things, though I can’t shake the feeling that the…

On this week’s episode, Chris and Anthony are looking at 10 games that have unique end-game conditions. Whoever gets their first! We’re talking about games built around a race – to build something, reach a destination, or achieve something first. In addition, we ask the listeners whether they prefer photographs or poorly made artwork in our question of the week, then dive into acquisition disorders, including Cerebria: The Inside World, now on Kickstarter, and a pair of expansions for very popular euros – The Companions of Marco Polo and Lorenzo il Magnifico: Houses of Renaissance. At the table this week,…

Secrets of the Lost Station is currently live on Kickstarter! In this episode, Jason sits down with the lead designer, Jim Samartino. They discuss, among other things, how it builds upon and improves Secrets of the Lost Tomb and how it weaves the theme into all aspects of gameplay.

Jason welcomes back the owner and founder of Gamelyn Games, Michael Coe, and designer of Heroes of Land, Air and Sea, Scott Almes to talk about the big new game coming soon.  The three talk about the game itself, the Kickstarter and controversy around its initial attempts to fund, and what they see for the future of both this game and other games in production by Gamelyn.  If you haven’t yet, be sure to connect with us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/boardgamersanonymous), Twitter (http://twitter.com/bgapodcast), and on our website (www.www.boardgamersanonymous.com). You can support the show as well by donating on Patreon (www.patreon.com/bga), or…