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.
Chris and Anthony recorded from Pax Unplugged 2017, the very first board game only convention run by Pax, and they have a bunch to talk about. Join us for our question of the week asking about the most anticipated releases of next year, our acquisition disorders, including Chronicles of Crime and Meeple Circus, and our At the Table reviews of Nusfjord and Majesty: For the Realm. Finally we give our full overview of the very first Pax Unplugged convention.
We’ve saved the grand daddy of guest cohosts for last! We had the great fortune to be joined by Albert Hernandez, aka fractaloon, guildmaster of the popular 1 Player Guild on BGG as well as the cohost of the 1 Player Podcast. Albert and Jason are joined by two fine fellows involved with BGG’s annual Solitaire Print and Play contest – Chris Hansen, who runs the contest, and John Kean, who designed the winning game, Black Sonata We chat about the basics of printing and playing games (2:04), particularly how it appeals to those who love crafting in general, as…
This week on BGA, Chris and Anthony look at games you can introduce to your non-gamer friends if they’ve started to dip their toe in the water with games like Exploding Kittens. Before diving into our feature, we look at our question of the week. Listeners answered what they do with their old board games they no longer want or need in their collection. Next up, with our acquisition disorders, Anthony looks at the new legacy game from Inka and Marcus Brand, Queensdale, coming next year from Alea and Ravensburger. Chris delves into Pocket Mars. At the Table, Anthony reviews…
Time for something different! Today, we are happy to present a much shorter episode about a game whose genre – roll and write – we don’t talk about a lot. Alexander Shen visited the show to talk about his current, self-published Kickstarter project, Honeycomb Caverns. Please check out the episode to hear about the game itself, as well as some of the interesting decisions that led to this project landing on Kickstarter.
Yes, this is a Preview Series episode in the regular ENGN time slot. Due to a scheduling error, we posted the regular episode with Ant Lab Games one week early! We hope you enjoyed hearing from them. This week, Jason chats with Timo and Tinsku Multamaki, two of the minds behind Perdition’s Mouth: Abyssal Rift, a 1-6 player dungeon crawler whose second print run is currently on Kickstarter. We get into some of the unique mechanisms that mitigate a lot of the luck in the game, as well as whether it makes sense for a hero to get smarter by…
It’s that time of year again – sports are everywhere. From the recent conclusion of an all time great World Series to the midst of Football season and the onset of both Basketball and Hockey seasons (yes, I know, we’re very American), it’s time to talk sports with our top 10 sports games. First on the episode, we look at common mechanics or tropes in video games listeners want to see in board games in our question of the week. Next up, we dig into Root from Leder Games and Batman: The Board Game from Monolithic Games in our Acquisition…
Anthony and Frances from Ant Lab Games return for more solo gaming discussion! This time, we chat about ‘games beyond the hotness’ – that is, games that are some of our favorites from the last few years, but which have flown under the radar for various reasons. Afterwards, we chat about the ethics of board game reviewers getting free stuff from publishers. Does it affect our objectivity? What responsibilities do we have to publishers, as well as to the audience?
We’re a little late this week due to some technical difficulties, but we have a bunch of new games to talk about, so the show must go on! We may not have made it to Essen last week, but we sure watched the hot games as they hit the show. This week we have a rundown of which games were hottest and which ones we’re most excited to have in hand in the future. First up is our question of the week, in which we asked you what games you want to see out of Fantasy Flight Interactive, the first…
Yes, folks, we are posting the regular weekly episode early this week! Ryan Laukat of Red Raven Games dropped by the show to chat about Near and Far as well as it’s expansion, Amber Mines, which is in its last week on Kickstarter. Ryan talks about lots of aspects of Near and Far, including comparisons to Above and Below, the challenge of designing a competitive storytelling game, and how serendipity played a role in the design of the map book. And of course, we talk about solo play! Special thanks to thebrandt, Brandt Sanderson of the Portal Gaming Podcast, for…
Two special guests join us this week to discuss three big heavy games! Anthony is very excited because he gets to talk about the heaviest games he’s had at the table for the last few weeks with Anthony and Frances from Antlab Games, who also love the heavier side of the gaming hobby. Jason steps back (but not out!) as they heavy gamers discuss Manhattan Project: Energy Empire, Anachrony, and Lisboa – both from the general gameplay perspective and how they approach solo play (both successfully and in some cases, less so). Make sure to check out Antlab games on…