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.
Before we get on to the episode, we are happy to announce our first contest here at ENGN! We are looking to build some online community centers where people could reliably interact with us. The first prize is a prize pack which includes Herbaceous and Sunset Over Water from Pencil First Games! Please visit their current Kickstarter page if you want the third game in the series, Herbaceous Sprouts – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ebaraf/herbaceous-sprou…. Here is your chance to get those first two games for free! If we get a certain number of entries, we will add more prizes! Good ones, too, including…
This week, we preview one of the most distinct games you will hear about this year. The co-designers from Hub Games – Michael Fox and Rory O’Connor, join us this week to talk about Holding On: The Troubled Life of Billy Kerr. This is a cooperative worker placement game with an extremely unique theme – you are a nurse providing palliative care to a dying man, and your job is to keep him alive while helping him restore his memories. Michael and Rory talk about taking on such a difficult theme, as well as mechanical issues such as how they…
Convention season has started! Anthony and Chris kick off the season of many cons with their rundown of the games they are most looking forward to seeing this summer. Is the list complete? Probably not, but we’re excited for every game on it. Before we kick things off, make sure to enter our World Cup of Sci Fi Games contest, ending on June 9th. You can find more information here. 2018 World Cup of Science Fiction Board Games Contest To start the episode, we ask our question of the week and listeners share how many plays they will give a…
We welcome Liz from Beyond Solitaire and Jeremy from Jambalaya Plays Games back to the show! As we like to do when we have guests, we share about some games we completely adore, but which aren’t getting the publicity they deserve. First, Jeremy tells us about Coldwater Crown (2:58), a worker placement style game with a fishing theme. The expansion for this game, The Sea Expansion, is currently live on Kickstarter. Next, Liz shares about something of a “grail” game for some gamers, Coffee Roaster (10:29). Jeremy then hops back in to discuss a cooperative deckbuilder from the designer of…
It’s the end of May, and that means time to look back at the hotness for this month and why some games have jumped into the limelight (and others remain). First up this week, we’re talking about our World Cup contest for Sci Fi games, coming up in 2 weeks. You can enter the contest here for a chance to win a free sci fi board game. 2018 World Cup of Science Fiction Board Games Contest Our question of the week this week asked everyone what games they have replaced components for and why (in honor of the horrible little…
Today, we’re featuring an asymmertrical, two player, family friendly deduction game with a Peter Pan/ Neverland theme (you guys know how much I love my thematic games). Dan Letzring of Leitman Games hops on the show to talk about this design from Scott Almes, including some bits about its original theme (Boston Tea Party???), how it works across different skill levels and age groups, and some other tidbits. Neverland Rescue is live on Kickstarter!: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/letimangames/the-neverland-rescue-by-scott-almes?ref=nav_search&result=project&term=neverland%20rescue
We are happy to present to you our first Kickstarter Mega-Pod! If you’ve been following our Preview Series, you’ll know that we cover lots of kickstarter projects while they are live. So it’s very nice when the games actually deliver and we can talk about them! This undertaking was so big that we had to enlist some help – Liz Davidson from Beyond Solitaire, as well as Jeremy Howard from Jambalaya Plays Games – https://jambalayaplaysgames.com/. We have five games for you this week (spoiler – they are all good). First, we get into an interesting discussion about the City of…
Herbaceous Sprouts is the third in a line of gorgeous small filler games from Dr. Steve Finn, Ed Baraf et. al. Both Herbaceous and Sunset Over Water were big hits for Pencil First Games, and now we have the third standalone game in that line. Herbaceous Sprouts is a dice drafting and manipulation game that plays in about 20-30 minutes. Check out our interview with Ed to her how it plays, as well as how it compares to Sagrada and other dice manipulation games. We also get into the previous two games in the series, so please check that out…
Don’t miss out on our new contest for June! We’re running a 2018 World Cup contest for best sci fi games and you can win a game! Check it out here: http://www.boardgamersanonymous.com/2018-world-cup-science-fiction-board-games-contest/ This week on BGA, we’re looking at the slew of award nominations that were announced the last two weeks, including Origins Games Awards, Dice Tower Awards, and Spiel des Jahres. For our question of the week this week, we asked people what game people would never get rid of from their collection. For our acquisition disorders this week, Anthony looked at Jurassic Park: Danger! Adventure Strategy Game and…
Four years ago we put together one of our favorite episodes – a two stage tournament of the best fantasy board games. With the world cup this summer, we wanted to do it again, this time with sci-fi games. And this time around we want you to participate! You can join in the fun by entering our contest. Just choose which two games you think will win in each of the 8 groups, as well as a prediction for the overall winner. Every correct pick you make will be worth 2 points, with a bonus 5 points if you predict…