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.
This week, Anthony and Chris delve into the heaviest of the heavy, sharing the top 10 games they love when it’s time to get crunchy. To kick things off, we ask the BGA listeners our question of the week, What 80’s IP would you like to see next get a board game reimagining? And there are some great ideas we would absolutely pay money for. For our acquisition disorders, Anthony delves into the newest Stefan Feld game coming out this fall with Forum Trajanam, and Chris looks at the newest plastic-fest from CMON – Cthulhu: Death May Die. At the table…
Following up on Top 100 Co-ops from all of last week, we keep the co-op love going with this episode. First, Anthony and Jason share about their recent plays of Thanos Rising: Avengers Infinity War (4:13), letting you know if this game rises above its IP and can stand alone on its own. Then we chat about the new real time game from Tim Fowers that just shipped to Kickstarter backers, Now Boarding (12:12). For our latest Improve Your Play segment, we tackle a game that has earned its reputation for being very, very difficult to beat – Ghost Stories…
With the recent release of Century: Eastern Wonders, new attention is being paid to the gateway series of games from Plan B Games and Emerson Matsuuchi. To celebrate, this week we’re looking at six games you might like if you already like Spice Road, the first entry in the series. Before we dive into that, we talk about gaming guilty pleasures in our question of the week – some of the games we play and love regardless of BGG rating. We then dive into Acquisition Disorders with Anthony discussing Starship Samurai and Chris delving into Tang Garden from ThunderGryph Games…
Over the last month, Jason was joined by Luke Hector from The Broken Meeple to talk about their Top 100 Cooperative Games. We’ve provided you with that audio throughout the entire week, which we hope you have enjoyed. You can see the videos for all 100 games, including some bonuses, over at Luke’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmjyHBcqxxQjrg0KUN944dQ. In this episode, we present Luke and Jason’s Top 10 Cooperative Games from that list. In addition, Anthony jumps in with his own Top 10 list. If you’ve paid any attention to our show, you know Anthony is way more enthused about Euros. So,…
Another year down, and another Origins Game Fair attended. Join Anthony and Chris as they run through some of the numbers, the stuff we enjoyed the most, and the games that stood out during the 5 day con. 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 using our Amazon affiliate link.
Convention season is here! So to help you have the best time possible at any cons you might attend this summer or into the fall, we’ve collected advice from our listeners on how to have a great con. To kick things off this week, thank you to Kyle – our newest Patreon backer! For our acquisition disorders this week, Anthony discusses Neta-Tanka on Kickstarter now and Chris looks at Heroes of Terinnoth – a new take on the Warhammer Quest Adventure Card Game formula that was so short lived. At the Table this week, Anthony reviews Istanbul The Dice Game…
As much as we love bringing you content about all sorts of Kickstarter projects, it gives us a special warm feeling in our hearts when we can promote a project from a first time designer. We welcome Joseph Chen to the show to talk about Fantastic Factories. The project funded in the first few hours of launch, which is an amazing accomplishment considering that this is Joseph and his partner are doing it themselves without any official publisher backing. Joseph will tell you about the game – think Alien Frontiers: The Card Game – and also about how he was…
Welcome to Part Two of our roundtable conversation about solo variant design. If you missed Part One, please go back in the feed and check it out. We’ve released both episodes simultaneously because… well, we want you to have it! In this half of our discussion with Keith, Mike, and Ricky, we get into their process as designers, as well as their greatest difficulties and how they overcame them. They also get into solo variants within the board game publishing world, both within the traditional routes and in Kickstarter projects.
Before we get on to the episode, we want to remind every one about the contest we are running for our community. As of this podcast’s airdate (6/15), you only have a few days left! We are now offering more prizes. One winner will get a prize pack which includes Herbaceous and Sunset Over Water from Pencil First Games! Another will receive their choice between Hoplomachus: Origins and Comancheria. If we reach 75 likes on our Geeklist, we will give away a copy of Legacy of Dragonholt. All you have to do to enter the contest is: 1) Join the…
It’s time for another bracket! This time around, Anthony and Chris are delving into the top 32 sci fi board games out there, whittling them down in our World Cup of Science Fiction Board Games. We’ve created eight pools of four games each. We selected two games from each pool (with the help of the dreaded die!) and then ran them through a single elimination tournament of sixteen games to find the winner. Listen to find out which game came out on top, and to hear which of our listeners came out on top with their picks in our World…