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Patrick and Eric catch up after a break.  They were able to meet up at Eric's house for a weekend of gaming and cover many of the games they had discussed wanting to play together on previous episodes plus a few new things.

Patrick and Eric catch up on recent plays and talk about games from Daily Magic Games and their current kickstarter of three games they had a chance to play. Recorded on 11/20/21 Recently Played Games: Patrick: Gravwell 2nd Edition (3rd) Whirling Witchcraft Eric: The Crew: Mission Deep Sea Furnace DMG Games We’ve Played: Go Nuts for Donuts 10 Minute Heist: The Wizard’s Tower Horizons Food Truck Champion Kitten Klash Swinging Jivecat Voodoo Lounge Three new Valeria games from Daily Magic Games: Dice Kingdoms of Valeria is a 1-to-6 player roll & write game designed by Levi Mote with art by The Mico Thrones of Valeria is a 2-to-6 player trick-taking and rank manipulation game designed by Matt Jacobs with art by The Mico.  Siege of Valeria is a solo-player castle defense game designed by Glenn Flaherty with art by The Mico. @overthehillier @ericbuscemi punchboardmedia.com

Flatout Games is a board game design collaborative that was founded in 2017 by Molly Johnson, Robert Melvin, and Shawn Stankewich. They are “focused on creating innovative and elegant game experiences” and “love puzzly games with simple rules, high replayability, and great tension and decision-making, typically with low-luck, high-skill euro-style mechanisms.”  As a design collaborative, they have several published designs, including the 2018 Cardboard Edison and LUCI award finalist Point Salad (AEG), Public Market (Talon Strikes Studios), Dollars to Donuts (Crafty Games), Abstract Academy (Crafty Games), Truffle Shuffle (AEG), and TEN (AEG). In early 2019 Flatout Games created The Flatout Games CoLab, allowing the founding members of Flatout Games to team up with established and emerging designers in the board game industry and make games together. The CoLab has published Calico and Cascadia, and is currently working on publishing Verdant. Eric: Point Salad Public Market Dollars to Donuts TEN Calico Cascadia Verdant Patrick Point Salad TEN Calico Cascadia Verdant Verdant Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/flatoutgames/verdant Online solo play here: Cascadia: https://cascadiagame.github.io/ Verdant: https://verdantgame.github.io/ Beth Sobel kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bethsobel/river-and-stone-playing-cards  

Recorded 9/12 Discussion Inka / Marcus Brand - Married couple, won Kennerspiel des Jahres for the Exit series Patrick La Boca Village - take actions - take time, when you cross the time track someone dies and they go into the book of the villagers or anonymous graves Rajas Exit series Orleans: Invasion (with Reinr Stockhausen) - Invasion co-op and prosperity scenario (other stuff in box too) Murano - glass factories of Venice and gondoliers moving around the outside of the board in a rondel like mechanism Word Slam Noch Mal (Encore) roll and write  Eric Rajas of the Ganges Rajas: Dice Charmers La Boca Word Slam Exit series (some with Ralph Querfurth) Other notable games: Saint Malo (roll-and-write) Rise of Queensdale (legacy/campaign) Available online (all on Yucata): Rajas of the Ganges Rajas: Dice Charmers Murano Noch Mal app @overthehillier @ericbuscemi    Punchboardmedia.com  

Recorded 7/31/2021 BGA: Dice Hospital In Person Gaming: (New games to Patrick/Eric in bold) Patrick Work Lunch Games Dex games, since we couldn't play those on line — Meeple Circus, Junk Art Pandemic: The Cure Mama Mia Game Night Light Just One Wits and Wagers: Vegas  D20   Imperium (Not good with four players) Glory to Rome Krass Kariert (Available as Dealt!) Adrenaline 4th of July meetup Century Sagrada King of Tokyo Horrified Eric CraigCon - Day One   Marvel United Miyabi 7 Wonders Skull King Dead Man’s Draw Diamant (Available as Incan Gold) Bullet♥︎ Fantasy Realms CraigCon - Day Two Air, Land, & Sea Unmatched: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Old West Empresario Era: Medieval Age Dune: Imperium Brew Cubitos Nidavellir Pairs CraigCon - Day Three Paleo

Part two of the episode discussing favorite themes and games that may or may not align with that theme. Treasure Hunting  Fortune and Glory  Karuba  Artifacts Inc.  Lost Ruins of Arnak  Fireball Island  Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul-Kar Tobago The Adventurers: The Temple of Chac The Adventurers: Pyramid of Horus Thebes Luxor Deckscape: The Mystery of Eldorado Heists Burgle Bros  Burgle Bros 2 Deckscape: Heist in Venice Caper The Mansky Caper  Cash and Guns? Steampunk Spyrium Steampunk Rally Mission Red Planet Scythe City of Gears Quicksilver/Kings of Air and Steam/Aether Captains @overthehillier @ericbuscemi @punchboardmedia

Patrick and Eric discuss their three favorite themes in game. This is the start of a series since they ran out of time covering three categories. Amusement Parks Dinosaur Island - David Gilmore, Brian Lewis/Pandasaurus  Steam Park Aureliano Buonfino, Lorenzo Silva, Lorenzo Tucci Sorrentino / Cranio Creations Unfair - Joel Finch / CMON Arcadia - Greg Bush, Phil R. Chase / APE games Coaster Park - Scott Almes / Pandasaurus Games Grand Carnival - Rob Cramer / Uproarious Games     City building / planning Suburbia - Ted Alspach / Bezier Urban Sprawl - Chad Jensen / GMT Cities: Skylines – The Board Game High Rise - Gil Hova / Formal Ferret Sprawlopolis - Steven Aramini, Danny Devine, Paul Kluka / Button Shy Quadropolis - François Gandon / DOW Cloud City - Phil Walker-Harding / blue orange Bloom town - Asger Harding Granerud, Daniel Skjold Pedersen / Sidekick games Welcome to Centerville - Chad Jenson / GMT   Civilization Building  Advanced Civ Lauren Banerd, Jim Eliason, Jeff Groteboer, Bruce Harper + 6 more / Avalon Hill Mega Civ - Flo de Haan, John Rodriguez, Francis Tresham / 999 Games Through the Ages - Vlaada Chvátil / CGE Sid Meier's Civilization: The Board Game - Kevin Wilson / Fantasy Flight Civilization: A New Dawn - James Kniffen / Fantasy Flight The Golden Ages - Luigi Ferrini / Quined Games Tapestry - Jamey Stegmaier / Stonemaier   @overthehillier @ericbusemi punchboardmedia.com

After the following tweet by Bruno Faduti and the backlash on twitter….. Patrick and Eric decided to have a discussion about drinking at conventions and their thoughts and experiences. Breakfasts at Conventions Tim Viring @tim_virnig (Patrick went with Tim and Asdruval Cifuentes @retroboardgamer the name I forgot on the podcast - Patrick) Since recording Faduti has posted a response on his blog here. Patrick @overthehillier Eric @ericbuscemi Punchboardmedia.com

As part of their favorite designer series Patrick and Eric this time chose to discuss Friedemann Friese. Patrick Power Grid Power Grid Cards Power Grid Factory Manager Fauna Friday Copy Cat  deck-building, worker-placement, drafting race game. 504  Fabled Fruit Eric Power Grid Fauna  Friday Fuji Flush Folder

Episode 36 Patrick and Eric discuss "Abstract Games" “Abstract” from BGG: "Abstract game" often refers to games of perfect information with alternating turns and no randomness; usually for 2 players. e.g. Chess or Go. It is also often used to refer to a game without a theme (regardless of the game mechanics). E.g. Backgammon or Tantrix. It is also often used to refer to games that are "mostly" perfect information and "mostly" lacking in theme (leading to even more confusion and disagreement about whether a given game is an "abstract game" or not). Classics: Checkers Chess Xiangqi Go Mancala Reversi/Othello (1883) Modern: Gipf Series (Gipf, Yinch, etc) Shobu Canosa Tak Blokus Amazons Onitama Quoridor  Quarto Quantik Abstracts with Theme: Battle Sheep Patchwork Hive Santorini Abstracts with Luck: Backgammon Nova Luna Qwirkle Number 9 Ingenious Abstracts with Theme and Luck: Azul and sequels War Chest The Duke Calico Seikatsu

Episode 35 Patrick and Eric discuss favorite Racing Games They start up talking about growing up watching real racing.   Long Shot: The Dice Game  Long Shot the Original Camel Cup Mint Julep Snow Tails Formula D Downforce Automobiles Rallyman/Rallyman GT Thunder Alley PitchCar Wacky Races Power Boats (remade as Powerships) Jamaica Flamme Rouge Steampunk Rally Quicksilver (balloons) Missippi Queen (steam paddleboats) Oden’s Ravens   Granite Game Summit show 3/13/21 at 11:00am  http://www.granitegamesummit.com/   @overthehillier @ericbuscemi punchboardmedia.com