Botch Games Podcast

In Episode 34, Craig digs in to three tile placement games, which quickly becomes a lesson on intro/family games. During the episode he discusses Lanterns: The Harvest Festival from Foxtrot Games and Renegade Games, Between Two Cities from Stonemaier Games, and New York 1901 from Blue Orange Games.

 

Show Times:

Lanterns (Foxtrot Games): 6:50

Between Two Cities (Stonemaier Games): 20:45

New York 1901 (Blue Orange Games) 41:15

Direct download: 34.mp3
Category:Games -- posted at: 9:56pm EDT

In the first episode of the newest sister program Craig has dreamed up, he digs into the psychological principles of Locus of Control and the Self-Serving Bias. To achieve this goal, he has a long discussion with Edward and Tony from the Heavy Cardboard Podcast and Aaron and Quinten from the Board Alive Podcast where they dig into luck and random factor in games discussing the advantages and disadvantages of randomness or lack of randomness in a large scope of games. HC touts their knowledge of luckless heavy strategy games, while BA talks about their favorite stand-up dice rolls in thematic games and it culminates into an amazing discussion about  how much randomness and luck leaves each group feeling fulfilled.

Direct download: viewpoint1.mp3
Category:Viewpoints -- posted at: 1:30pm EDT

In Episode 33, Craig dives into three games that showed up on his doorstep thanks to the magic of Kickstarter. All three games are 2015 releases and have shown up within the past month or so which means he has fought hard to get several plays of each game to bring them to your attention, dear listener. 

First Craig talks about Vault Wars, the auction game from Floodgate Games, then he digs in the latest installment of the Tiny Epic line from Gamelyn Games, Tiny Epic Galaxies, and he finally wraps us with his newest game obsession, Mottainai, from Asmadi Games. 

 

Show Times:

Vault Wars (Floodgate Games): 7:00

Tiny Epic Galaxies (Gamelyn Games): 26:00

Mottainai (Asmadi Games): 39:00

Direct download: 33.mp3
Category:Games -- posted at: 2:44pm EDT

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