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.
Welcome to part two of our year end ENGN Solo Awards for 2017! We hope you enjoyed part one last episode. This time, we feature all of the core titles that made the biggest impact in the solo and cooperative communities throughout the year. And, just like last time, we have some illustrious guests from other channels to help us out. Best Short Game – presented by Travis from Low Player Count (2:00) – https://www.lowplayercount.com/ Best Family/ Casual Strategy Game – presented by Liz Davidson from Beyond Solitaire (5:52) – http://www.beyondsolitaire.net/index.html Best Advanced Card Game – presented by a mystery…
This week’s episode is sponsored by Academy Games, whose new game, Agents of Mayhem: Pride of Babylon is on Kickstarter now. We also want to thank all of our new Patreon backers this week: Finn, Eric, Barry, Suppiluliuma, and Jim. This week, we have an all new Top 10 list, featuring the best deck building games out there. First up, Chris and Anthony dive into our question of the week, looking at your answers to the question, “what game or designer would you attend a dedicated convention for?” For our acquisition disorders, we look at Teotihuacan: City of Gods from one…
You may have seen the voting polls on Facebook and the 1 Player Guild. Now it’s time to hand out our ENGN Solo Awards for 2017! Anthony and Jason both chose their own winners, and the fans helped up break any ties between us with their own votes! Not only do we present each award with analysis for each category, we asked a number of friends in the solo and cooperative community to help present (one of whom gets eaten by a Shoggoth monster… you’ll have to listen to find out who). Best Board Game App – presented by Crystal…
What’s hot on BGG right now? Join us for our monthly BGG Hotness review. Chris and Anthony delve into the 15 games atop the hotness this week, along with a pair of new reviews and much more. To kick things off, we asked the listeners for the most important things a FLGS can do to earn their patronage. In our acquisition disorder this week, Anthony digs into UBOOT and Chris looks at the lighter, but still very pretty new game from Eagle Gryphon Games – The Scarlet Pimpernel. At the Table this week, Anthony reviews the long awaited reprinting of…
Welcome back to our special Preview Series, the show where Kickstarter designers and project managers answer all of your questions about their projects. We hope you get everything you need to know so that you can make an informed decision about whether a KS project is worth your hard earned cash. Today, we are happy to chat the publisher and designer of one of the most popular, family friendly projects currently on Kickstarter, which is Tiny Epic Zombies. Scott Almes and Michael Coe share their stories about the origin of TEZ, design goals, ITEMeeples, use (or perhaps overuse) of the…
For this week’s episode, we are extremely happy to bring you our interview with Rory O’Connor, lead designer for Rory’s Story Cubes. We could only barely contain the story telling flair that Rory brought to the pod! Albert from the 1 Player Podcast has returned to ENGN to help us out with the interview, as well. After a brief intro where we learn a bit about Rory as a gamer, we get into the history of the Cubes (6:50), particularly focusing on how he used them as a self-help tool and how they grew into a game and story telling…
It’s time for another If You Like episode. This week, we’re digging into the biggest of them all – Twilight Imperium 4th Edition and six games you might like (at varying weights) if you’re a fan of this epic experience. Before we dive into that, however, we asked our question of the week – your favorite asymmetrical implementation of player powers or starting conditions. Next up, we dove into our Acquisition Disorders, discussing Everdell and Fields of Arle: Tea & Trade. Then our At the Table reviews for this week, featuring Gaia Project and Dinosaur Island. Finally, we shared six…
This week, we return to our tried and true Deep Dive format to analyze one of the hottest releases of 2016 – Stonemaier Games’ Charterstone. The first part of our show is spoiler free. We give our impressions of the very first game, as well as non-spoiler (as much as possible) reactions after finishing all 12 games. Afterwards, we get into our full spoiler review (16:07). Finally, we brought in a few friends of the pod for their reactions – Martin from our Slack channel, and Jenn Bartlett, the Board Game Librarian, and her husband Matt. They had very, very,…
Almost two years ago, for episode 100, we featured our top 100 games. For episode 150, we decided to revisit the list and updated it to reflect the great games that have been released since and some of the games that don’t get as much play as they once did. Here it is – our top 100 for 2018: 100. Dominant Species Unapologetic in its stark look and aggressive gameplay, Dominant Species challenges even the most hardcore eurogamers into managing the evolution of your species under the harshest of conditions. Pure gaming goodness. [amazon_link asins=’B0045WCG8I’ template=’ProductGrid’ store=’norwwrit-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’47859458-fee2-11e7-88ec-77d8712e737a’] 99.…
It’s that time of year again – time for us to run wild with our acquisition disorders and list off 25+ games that we’re excited to play in 2018. This year, the list was extra long so we had to do some pruning to make it manageable. Before we dive into our most anticipated, we asked the listeners what their most anticipated were and the answers were extremely varied. We then dove into our recent plays with reviews of Rajas of the Ganges and Azul. Finally, we shared the 30 games we’re most excited to see in 2018. Check them…