Author: Anthony
Anthony
Anthony cofounded Board Gamers Anonymous in 2013 and has been on (almost) every episode. Today, he lives in Philadelphia with his family and teaches first year writing at Thomas Jefferson University.
Our (belated yet still hopefully valuable) GenCon coverage rolls on, this time with some short games that use dice to make them go. First up, Jason shares about Unbroken (4:46), a resource management game of survival that is optimized for the one player experience. Jason wanted to review the game independently of some of the controversy surrounding it’s Kickstarter fulfillment, so we get into that right at the beginning. If you want to hear further thoughts about the situation, please stay tuned until the end of the episode. Then, Anthony chats about the newest Matt Leacock dice game, Era: Medieval…
Congratulations to Antoine, our Patreon contest winner from last week who will be receiving a game of his choice from Game Surplus. If you want to join the fun, become a Patreon backer for your chance to enter. Every backer is eligible to enter the contests, which run each week from Thursday until Monday at 8pm EDT when we record. https://www.patreon.com/bga for more information. *** This week, we kick things off with our question of the week, “What’s a map or module you’d love to see for one of your favorite games?” For our acquisition disorders this week, Anthony looks at Crystal…
Congratulations to Adrienne, our Patreon contest winner from last week who will be receiving a game of his choice from Game Surplus. If you want to join the fun, become a Patreon backer for your chance to enter. Every backer is eligible to enter the contests, which run each week from Thursday until Monday at 8pm EDT when we record. https://www.patreon.com/bga for more information. *** This week, we kick things off with our question of the week, “What are the best games you’ve played this year that are old but new to you?” For our acquisition disorders this week, Anthony looks at…
Today, Anthony is back from his summer hiatus! And we have even more family weight games for your enjoyment, either with your family or as a solo gamer. We start with two games that take familiar pieces of culture and make fun games out of them – The Fifty Nine Parks Print Series in the game Parks (6:38), and the Periodic Table of Elements in Periodic: A Game of Elements (12:30). We then turn to two more games that happened to do really well on Kickstarter – a nifty card drafting game called Villagers (19:36), and the next in the…
We’re starting a bit late this year, but that’s ok! We are here for you to provide reviews of a TON of games from GenCon 2019. Get buckled in for a series of episodes to cover it all. Helping Jason for Part One of our Wrapup coverage are Colin and Steve from the One Stop Coop Shop podcast and YouTube channel. Before we get into the games, we announced the creation of a new fan group for Every Night is Game Night over at the One Stop Coop Shop Slack channel. We go over how it works in the show.…
Congratulations to William, our Patreon contest winner from last week who will be receiving a game of his choice from Game Surplus. If you want to join the fun, become a Patreon backer for your chance to enter. Every backer is eligible to enter the contests, which run each week from Thursday until Monday at 8pm EDT when we record. https://www.patreon.com/bga for more information. *** This week, we kick things off with our question of the week, “What’s a game for which you’d like to see a more complex or harder version of?” For our acquisition disorders this week, Anthony looks at…
Congratulations to Drew, our Patreon contest winner from last week who will be receiving a game of his choice from Game Surplus. If you want to join the fun, become a Patreon backer for your chance to enter. Every backer is eligible to enter the contests, which run each week from Thursday until Monday at 8pm EDT when we record. https://www.patreon.com/bga for more information. *** This week, we kick things off with our question of the week, “What is the best first player token in board games?” For our acquisition disorders this week, Anthony looks at Maracaibo, the newest from Alexander Pfister…
Jason welcomes Jordan Shoenberger, host of the Second Chance Shelf segment from Board Game Breakfast, to the show for the first time. Before we get swept up in the madness of all the new releases of 2019 (believe me, people, there are MANY episodes of new hotness coming), we slow things down and talk about what we love about finding rare gems and pulling old, beloved games off of the shelf. We then get into some reviews of some older games for lots of different tastes. Jason begins with Citadel of Blood (14:18), a relic of an earlier generation of…
Congratulations to Michael, our Patreon contest winner from last week who will be receiving a game of his choice from Game Surplus. If you want to join the fun, become a Patreon backer for your chance to enter. Every backer is eligible to enter the contests, which run each week from Thursday until Monday at 8pm EDT when we record. https://www.patreon.com/bga for more information. *** This week, we kick things off with our question of the week, “What’s your desert island game – the one game you could play forever if stranded with nothing else to do?” For our acquisition disorders this…
Jason welcomes good friend Gary Pope from the Dice Tower to talk about… uh, talking! Games first, though. Jason shares about World Shapers, a rare drafting game with a solo variant from Board&Dice that attempts to put its own spin and advance upon games like 7 Wonders and Tides of Time. Then, Gary sings the praises of one of his favorite games over the past few years, Heroes of Land, Air, and Sea. For our discussion, Jason and Gary pull from their experiences as a marriage counselor and forum moderator, respectively, to chat about how we help people who disagree…