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135: Fun new word/social games, upgrading your game room Jun 20, 2024

Show notes

We were sitting on a new stack of word games, so we asked our editor Mike Zipkin (he of fancy game upgrades and beige game tastes) to join us in covering Word Traveler, Illiterati, Mind Map, and ContraBanter. Plus, upgrading your board games is old news -- how do you upgrade your entire game room?

Timeline:

2:00 - Christina/Shoe's game pick: Captain Flip.
9:13 - Mike's game pick: StreetCar (San Francisco).
16:28 - Christina/Shoe's topic: new word games.
48:14 - Mike's topic: upgrading your game room.

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134: Nature-themed board games, deluxe/big box editions (guest: Ian Moss) Jun 06, 2024

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Who doesn't love a beautiful nature game? Shoe doesn't, the grump. He just hates nature. But did he like the upcoming Everbloom, designed by our guest Ian Moss (Bunkers & Badasses, Dinosaur Island, Wonderland's War), from publisher Nerdvana Games? (Check out the Kickstarter!)

We also discuss what makes a new deluxe or big box edition of a game worth a purchase.

Timeline:

2:50 - Going Analog's game pick: Eclipse: Second Dawn for the Galaxy.
8:06 - Ian's game pick: Canvas.
15:30 - Going Analog's topic: favorite nature games.
39:53 - Ian's topic: deluxe and big box versions of games.

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133: 7 new/new-to-us board games (and what we liked/didn't like about them) May 16, 2024

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We've got so many new board games to talk about this week that we decided to skip having a guest on, so we can just blab and blab and blab about what we've been playing lately. So yup, you're just getting all Christina, all Shoe this episode. And they're ready to dish on what they liked and what they didn't about each of these.

Timeline:

1:16 - The Vale of Eternity.
9:19 - Faraway.
16:50 - Monumental.
24:36 - The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era.
32:47 - Heroes of Might & Magic III: The Board Game.
45:59 - Converge: Catalysts of Change/Sparks of Hope/Engines of Progress.
54:17 - Evergreen.

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132: The best legacy games, exploring Christian themes (guest: designer Ken Franklin) Apr 25, 2024

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Legacy games can often light a classic franchise back on fire, as demonstrated by Flash Point: Legacy of Flame's successful Kickstarter.

We asked Legacy of Flame codesigner Ken Franklin (The Mansky Caper, Back to the Future: Dice Through Time, Tsuro: Phoenix Rising) to share some insight into how they turned the long-running co-op series into an evolving legacy experience. And while we're on the subject, what are other legacy games that we're fond of? And on a very unrelated topic, Ken educates us on the recent wave of gameplay-focused, Christianity-themed board games.

Timeline:

3:53 - Going Analog's game pick: ArcheOlogic.
10:03 - Ken's game pick: Kingsburg.
14:57 - Going Analog's topic: The development of Flash Point: Legacy of Flame, plus other legacy games we like.
32:37 - Ken's topic: Christian themes in gaming.

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131: The 2024 American Tabletop Awards (guest: What's Eric Playing?) Apr 11, 2024

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The 2024 American Tabletop Awards winners were just announced, so we invited ATTA founder, fellow judging member, and content creator Eric Yurko of What's Eric Playing? to hash them all out. How did Eric, Christina, and Shoe vote?

Timeline:

3:30 - Early Gamers category.
19:45 - Casual Games category.
35:51 - Strategy Games category.
53:52 - Complex Games category.

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130: Wyrmspan, our fave tabletop events (guests: Elizabeth Hargrave, Connie Vogelmann) Mar 28, 2024

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We knew Connie Vogelmann, designer of Apiary, was holding something back the last time we talked to her. So we brought her and Elizabeth Hargrave back to interrogate them about Wyrmspan, the new dragon-themed sequel to Elizabeth's now-classic and award-winning Wingspan!

What was it like designing a new game under the Wingspan name? How much did Connie and Elizabeth work together? And what counts as a dragon anyway?

Plus, the two have been busy on the convention circuit, so we discuss various board gaming shows and which ones we enjoy the most.

Timeline:

4:19 - Going Analog's game pick: Wroth.
9:11 - Connie and Elizabeth's game pick: Knarr.
16:10 - Going Analog's topic: Wyrmspan's development.
33:35 - Elizabeth and Connie's topic: Our favorite gaming events each year.

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129: Social deduction, "getting to know you" games (guest: 1 Minute Board Games) Mar 14, 2024

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We spend a lot of time with our friends playing board games, so we're bound to bond. But how well do we really know these people we've invited to our table?

We teamed up with our pals Raina and Phil from 1 Minute Board Games to take the next step in our gaming relationship: not just play "normal" board games (which we still do plenty of with them) but play ones designed to really dig down deep and get us talking about things that would normally not come up during sessions of Sea Salt & Paper. Listen in to see what we've learned about these experiences...and each other.

And on a very related note: social deduction! What's new and what are our faves in this class of games that have us lying to and manipulating each other?

Timeline:

4:41 - Going Analog's game pick: Great Western Trail: New Zealand.
11:52 -1 Minute Board Game's pick: Dune: Imperium - Uprising.
18:33 - Going Analog's topic: "Getting to know you" games.
39:32 - 1 Minute Board Game's topic: Social-deduction games.

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128: Bizarre gaming habits, how we value board games (guest: designer Eric Slauson) Feb 29, 2024

Show notes

When we read that Eric Slauson (designer of MonsDRAWsity, the upcoming Chucky game, and many more) likes to deal cards in a...very unique way, we knew we wanted to invite him on to discuss just how weird his board gaming habits are. Are we weirder? And just how do YOU compare anyways?

Plus, gamers always talk about how some games aren't "worth" the price -- how do we value that, exactly?

Timeline:

3:41 - Going Analog's game pick: Wyrmspan.
12:03 - Eric's game pick: Kinfire Chronicles.
19:25 - Going Analog's topic: Bizarre board gaming habits.
34:27 - Eric's topic: How do you value board games?

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127: Games we love (in genres we hate), what some games get right (guest: Peter C. Hayward) Feb 15, 2024

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Though we fancy ourselves "omnigamers" -- gamers who enjoy all genres -- we're kind of fooling ourselves. There are certainly specific categories of board games we try to stay away from. But! With every "rule" (if you can call it that), there's gotta be exceptions, right? So we explore ours with Peter C. Hayward. The game designer (That Time You Killed Me, French Toast, Fiction) is very...discerning, so we couldn't wait to hear his thoughts on these matters.

Separately, we recently played a game of Istanbul with Peter, and he couldn't stop raving about how it got "quick turns" down just right. So that got us thinking...what other specific things do specific games get "just right"?

Plus: Play along with us on a round of Peter's new game, Apropos of Board Games!

Timeline:

3:31 - Going Analog's game pick: Apropos of.
12:06 - Peter's game pick: boop.
14:56 - Going Analog's topic: Specific things that specific games get right.
38:29 - Peter's topic: Games you like in genres you don't.

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126: 2024's most anticipated, hard-to-recommend games (guest: Might I Suggest a Game) Feb 01, 2024

Show notes

I know we just finished our 2023 Games of the Year episode, but we're so over last year. It's cult-of-the-new time -- what are the badass games we're looking forward to in 2024? We invited gaming sommelier Alex Hart of Might I Suggest a Game to help us out since he also just put out his list!

And while we're frequent boardgame recommenders, sometimes we run into a few that are super difficult to endorse for some reason. Which ones? Listen to find out!

Timeline:

3:15 - Going Analog's game pick: Last Light.
8:44 - Alex's game pick: Daybreak.
15:07 - Going Analog's topic: Our most anticipated games of 2024.
35:35 - Alex's topic: Games that we love that we have a hard time suggesting.

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