The State of Games, Episode 56 – The One About Surprises In My Pocket
Whether you’re about to head out on the open road or find yourself about to be crammed into a crowded airplane, many of us think not only about what to take to wear – we also want to know how many games we can fit in that backpack. And that’s what this podcast is all about, Charlie Brown.
Links to important things mentioned on the podcast:
The Dice Hate Me 54-Card Challenge
No Thanks!
Hive
Coup
The Resistance
Chronicle
Fleet
Citadels
Angry Dice
Rise of Augustus
Glory to Rome
Incan Gold
Krosmaster: Arena
ALSO, OUR KICKSTARTER ALL STARS:
Compounded (It’s here! Get your pre-orders in!)
The Great Heartland Hauling Co. (All copies have been hauled away – but we’re hoping to get more!)
VivaJava: The Coffee Game (Almost sold out!)
Carnival (Currently sold out – but we’re hoping to get more!)
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Related posts:
- The State of Games, Episode 55 – The One About BGGCon 2013
- The State of Games, Episode 53 – The One About The Germans
- The State of Games, Episode 54 – The One About Your Right to Party
- The State of Games, Episode 43 – The One About 20 Questions
- The State of Games, Episode 50 – The One About GenCon 2013
hmmmmmmm listen tonight or save till monday for work…
I hope you listened tonight.
My favorite bring-to-a-restaurant small-footprint games:
Council of Verona
Citadels
Traders of Carthage
1955: War of Espionage (except that my wife doesn’t like this one)
Empyrean, Inc.
Hive
Love Letter
[still listening as I type this…]
To T.C.’s point about games like “Apples to Apples” except that the judge knows who played which card: There are two Kickstarters I reported about on Dice Tower News that I think are fundamentally flawed for that reason.
The first, on DTN Episode 186, was “Slash: Romance Without Boundaries,” in which a judge plays a card depicting a character from literature, pop culture, or history, and then each player throws out a character that they propose would have a romantic relationship with the judge’s character. Each player makes his case and describes some romantic episode, and then the judge picks the winner.
The second, on DTN #192, was “Clusterfight,” in which players argue over who would win a hypothetical fight, such as between Batman and the Pope – and then players can influence the fight by throwing in conditions like giving Batman uncontrollable vomiting or giving the Pope a blind rage. Then the players argue about how the fight would turn out, place bets on who would win … and then the judge picks a winner.
Those, to me, are broken game concepts. The people who make games like that are trying to create a context for a social discussion about hypothetical situations, but end up with a game construct that amounts to one person picking a winner. So, bad games. It bugs me that people fund games like that.
(Okay, I guess this ended up me going on a rant. Thanks, T.C., for pushing that button.)