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This past weekend I had the privilege of traveling to Colorado Springs for Pikes Peak Gamer (PPG) Con! This local convention with a library of over 1,300 great games was an absolute blast. In this episode I talk all about the convention and speed run through the some of the games we played. Of course we also give an important update on Tabletop Alliance, our 501c3 nonprofit that spreads games to students across the US! Games Discussed: All Creatures Big & Small Carooka (both snooker & pool) Darwin's Journey Terraforming Mars: Aeres Expedition Strike & Tournament Azul Japanese Card Games Volltreffer (Underground labyrinth and Five Tribes) Nana Potato Man Special shoutouts to Jon, Lainie, Jose, Angela, Sean, Peter, Mitchel, Denis, Dwayne, and others for making the weekend so great! To learn more about and support Tabletop Alliance, visit TabletopAlliance.Org To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game Impact Like the Facebook Page: Board Game Impact Instagram: @boardgameimpact Email: boardgameimpact@gmail.com

This episode is all about the little dice game that captivated me from GAMA Expo and was just released by Keymaster games...Chicken! In addition, Bruce shares some incredible news about Tabletop Alliance and how the article linked in these notes went out to 90,000 teachers in the National Education Association (NEA) magazine! TO support and donate to Tabletop Alliance go to - https://tabletopalliance.org/ NEA Article - https://www.nea.org/professional-excellence/student-engagement/tools-tips/want-your-teaching-game-let-students-play Pikes Peak Gaming Con - https://pikespeakgamers.com/ To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game Impact Like the Facebook Page: Board Game Impact Instagram: @boardgameimpact Email: boardgameimpact@gmail.com

Today's episode is all about the 2023 Spiel des Jahres winner, Dorfromantik! This tile laying gaming campaign experience took my family by storm while we attended BGG.Spring. You definitely want to hear about all the interesting things this game facilitated for us! To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game Impact Like the Facebook Page: Board Game Impact Instagram: @boardgameimpact Email: boardgameimpact@gmail.com

In this gamine experience deep dive we talk all about the Hunt A Killer Mystery Box: Body on the Boardwalk case. This case experience was sent to us by Hunt A Killer and we are glad they did because it was a really great mystery to solve and the components were beyond anything we had seen in this kind of experience to date. If you would like to try a Hunt A Killer case, feel free to use anyone of the codes that they sent us for use on their website: For $10 off any Item "HUNTGA1010" For 10% off an order "HUNTGA10" For 20% off either a 6 month or 12 month subscription "HUNTGA20" To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game Impact Like the Facebook Page: Board Game Impact Instagram: @boardgameimpact Email: boardgameimpact@gmail.com

In this episode of Board Game Impact released on 6/9 we welcome Dean as a guest so we can chat about team games, particularly the Crew and the lessons we learn while playing games together. This includes the game strategy, group meta, and more all related back to Blooms Revised Taxonomy for learning outcome development! Dean's BGA Username = OccamsRazor To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game Impact Like the Facebook Page: Board Game Impact Instagram: @boardgameimpact Email: boardgameimpact@gmail.com

This episode is all about getting to be one of the first to play Disney Lorcana while at the GAMA Expo 2023 and my first impressions of the trading card game. Disney Lorcana is set to release to retail late summer 2023 with their "first chapter" set that will have 204 uniquely new Disney art! The game is designed by Ryan Miller and Steve Warner, who were the two people who also taught me how to play! Make sure to listen to the whole episode to know all of my impressions on the game, conversations with the designers, and the owner of Ravensburger. To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game Impact Like the Facebook Page: Board Game Impact Instagram: @boardgameimpact Email: boardgameimpact@gmail.com

It has been an incrediblely life changing couple months and you have been extremely kind in your patience for another episode. I am happy to share that I am officially Dr. Bruce Brown (aka "Doc Brown") as I have successfully defended and completed a PhD! This episode is a MEGA update in advance of many more episodes to come. Topics discussed include: PhD Completion & Life Updates Incredible Tabletop Alliance Updates Children's Miracle Network Hospitals - Extra Life United GAMA Expo LOTS OF GAMES (with brief overviews) BGG.Spring (Memorial Day Weekend, upcomming)

It has been an incredible month and a half since the last recording! We have been able to further the Tabletop Alliance impact to 18,000+ students, attended BGG.Con, made significant progress on my PhD, and more! Special thanks to all those who came and said high to me at BGG.Con, AMIGO Games, Many Worlds Tavern, and The Brothers Murph. The Brothers Murph: (please go follow them) Top 100 Games of all Time – https://youtu.be/MVBTXFKfrCc 152 Games Leaving Charity Cull - https://youtu.be/Vc5rS_xAakc Many Worlds Tavern - https://manyworldstavern.com/ To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game Impact Like the Facebook Page: Board Game Impact Instagram: @boardgameimpact Email: boardgameimpact@gmail.com

Join us as we interview Max Jamelli, an educator who uses games and now has a game of his own design (along with his father) coming to Kickstarter at the end of the month called Lords of Baseball! Why take me out to the ballpark when we can manage the ballpark from home! We are doing this live recording to raise awareness for Tabletop Alliance, a charity we believe in that sends games to schools, libraries, and community programs across the US for FREEE!!! Join us as we help them get the support needed to impact 10,000 students! Fundraiser campaign link - https://go.rallyup.com/tabletopallian... Lords of baseball Kickstarter - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lordsofbaseball/lords-of-baseball?fbclid=IwAR2UWxV54xf4SKV-YwYOZIafYvLPnCq4eBCHRBbrCNqLbMuu-BaKdLFXd2Q Support Board Game Impact on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/boardgameimpact

In this episode Josh is back sharing all about his experience from the first ever World Series of Board Gaming and even his experience playing Terraforming Mars The Dice Game!!! Definately a lot of fun was had at the competition, but so were too a lot of first convention growing pains. Tune in to hear all about it and Josh's plans for next year's event. We streamed this recording LIVE to Facebook, Twitch, and Youtube to raise awareness about Tabletop Alliance, a gaming charity that we care about! You can tune in for our recordings live so that you can participate in our discussion. Make sure to follow on each platform to be alerted when we go live! To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game ImpactLike the Facebook Page: Board Game ImpactInstagram: @boardgameimpactEmail: boardgameimpact@gmail.com

Josh is back to talk all about his upcoming trip to the World Series of Board Gaming happening in Vegas! Josh is going to talk to us all about his prep and how this whole world series works. Join the Tabletop Alliance Fundraiser by visiting - https://go.rallyup.com/tabletopalliance2022 Have you volunteered for Extra Life? Sign up to potentially participate as part of Bruce's Study - https://tamu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_d71TwF8c9ZXKGYC You can check out WSBG at https://wsbgvegas.com/ To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game ImpactLike the Facebook Page: Board Game ImpactInstagram: @boardgameimpactEmail: boardgameimpact@gmail.com

In this episode Bruce revs up his engines as he shares about Downforce, a game by Restoration Games designed by Wolfgang Kramer. Also, Bruce shares how the podcast has surpassed 9,000 downloads thanks to you and wants you to know that there is currently a great way to win games while making a positive impact on a nonprofit they love, Tabletop Alliance. To support Tabletop Alliance by joining the game-a-thon, getting raffles, and/or donating visit - https://go.rallyup.com/tabletopalliance2022 To learn more about Board Game Impact: Join the Patreon: Board Game ImpactLike the Facebook Page: Board Game ImpactInstagram: @boardgameimpactEmail: boardgameimpact@gmail.com

For starters I am beyond the moon thankful to share that this podcast has been downloaded more than 9,000 times!!!! In this episode Bruce does a deep dive into Beyond the Sun by Rio Grande Games, designed by Dennis K. Chan. In addition Bruce shares about his upcoming game of Twilight Imperium (4th Edition) with the Prophecy of Kings expansion, and more as this episode was recorded LIVE and can be watched on the @BoardGameImpact pages on Twitch, YouTube, and Facebook. Make sure to subscribe on each so that you can join in live for a future recording as Bruce talks about more gaming things and your questions before and after the episode recording! To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game ImpactLike the Facebook Page: Board Game ImpactInstagram: @boardgameimpactEmail: boardgameimpact@gmail.com

In this episode of Board Game Impact Bruce reviews Destiny Quest - The Legion of Shadow game book by Michael J. Ward. This choose your own adventure game book has over 900 passages that the character you create can explore all while making meaningful decisions, engaging in combat, finding new gear, and learning more about this sprawling world that the author created. This game book does contain some mature content (fighting, battle, death) and is recommended for young adults and older due to the content. Join Bruce as he shares his experiences playing this first book in the Destiny Quest line for more than 15 hours in the unique role of being a game master for his wife as she has her character explore the vast storylines. Stay tuned after the credits for reading of the prologue by Bruce so you can feel the narrative environment that Michael creates through his writing. This episode was recorded LIVE and streamed to Patreon, Twitch , and YouTube to raise awareness for Tabletop Alliance, a volunteer run 501c3 nonprofit that supports educators, librarians, and community leaders using games by providing free games and consultations for the benefit of their students! You can learn more about Tabletop Alliance and donate by visiting TabletopAlliance.org To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game ImpactLike the Facebook Page: Board Game ImpactInstagram: @boardgameimpactEmail: boardgameimpact@gmail.com

The podcast is back!!!!! After a long and jam packed PhD adventure of finishing off all coursework I am so happy to be back playing games and getting to share about them with you for the benefit of your gaming group. In what way did I come back you may ask....well with a vengeance is the correct answer! This episode crash courses 18 games, 10 kickstarters/preorders ahead, and sharing updates about some different elements (i.e. PhD Journey, BGG, Streaming Gaming). It is good to be back. This episode is full of crash courses on each of these 28 games in 40 minutes To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game ImpactLike the Facebook Page: Board Game ImpactInstagram: @boardgameimpactEmail: boardgameimpact@gmail.com The games discussed in this episode are: Clash of Cultures Monumental Edition by WizKidsDestiny Quest (Book 1) Legion of Shadow by Michael WardMarrakech by GigmaticCamel Up/Camel CupLast Message by IelloLibertalia by Stonemaier GamesWatergate by Capstone GamesCryptid by OspreyDune Imperium + Rise of Ix Expansion by Dire WolfGutenberg by Portal GamesMagic Mountain by AmigoPlanet Unknown by Adams Apple GamesTortuga 1667 by Facade GamesNemo's War 2nd Ed. by Victory Point GamesJuicy Fruits by Capstone GamesKabuto Sumo by BoardGameTables.comWasteland Express Delivery ServiceRadlands by Roxley Games Kickstars/Pre-Orders Ahoy! By Leder GamesDestiny Quest world compendiumUm Actually - The Game of Nerdy ConnectionsCanvas Reflections Expansion by Road to InfamySleeping Gods; Distant Skies by Red Raven GamesToo Many Bones: Unbreakable Stretch Content from Chip Theory GamesAge of Steam Deluxe KS (All Maps) by Eagle GriffinAvatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game by Magpie GamesRoot Roleplaying Game by Magpie GamesSkyrise by Roxley Games

In this episode Bruce and Josh compare and contrast Parks and Trails, both by Keymaster games. They discuss the nuances of each, gameplay, components, and overall whether one replaces the other or if there are differences to justify having both. To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game ImpactLike the Facebook Page: Board Game ImpactInstagram: @boardgameimpactEmail: boardgameimpact@gmail.com

In this episode Bruce uses his dozens of hours of playtime to ask Josh about his first every play of Twilight Imperium 4th Edition which included playing with the new Prophecy of the Kings Expansion. To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game ImpactLike the Facebook Page: Board Game ImpactInstagram: @boardgameimpactEmail: boardgameimpact@gmail.com Twilight Imperium Links: -Learn to Play https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u2xEap5hBM -Choose starting factions site http://www.mygurps.com/TwilightImperium.html -Stats by faction Google Spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1c2fGqedk13kS8PR2XF1Olo7kWrjUu5LwZFLSRUKaKdo/edit#gid=0 -”Evernoob's Super Cheat Sheet” https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Y_av0_M5Cyz8viBIMOqDjf_ZbawR9GGNWztPqR-zuso/edit#gid=291923345 -Map Generator https://ti4-map-generator.derekpeterson.ca/ -Space Lions Documentary by Shut Up & Sit Down - https://youtu.be/iUpFlkTvQgg Audio Transcript (Generated by AI...Coming Soon)

In this episode the BoardGameGeek Golden Geek Award goes to.......quite a lot of games actually. That's right Bruce and Josh share who won each of the game categories of the BGG Golden Geek Awards. Each of these came out in 2020 and were voted on throughout BGG's nomination and voting process by the BGG users. We encourage you to check out the Tabletop Alliance "Christmas In July - Buy a Game, Give a Game" experience at - https://shop.tabletopalliance.org/ To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game ImpactLike the Facebook Page: Board Game ImpactInstagram: @boardgameimpactEmail: boardgameimpact@gmail.com Audio Transcript (Generated by AI...coming soon)

The time has come for the start of in-person gaming and to nominate your favorites for the Board Game Geek "Golden Geek" Awards! Now that they are vaccinated they have started to play games again with other vaccinated individuals in-person with lots more coming soon. This being the case there are some great games that have gotten to the table. Nominations for Golden Geek: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2639250/15th-annual-golden-geek-awards-nominations-open Specific Games Discussed: Honey Buzz (Elf Creek Games)Star Wars: Unlock! (Space Cowboys)Lost Ruins of Arnak (CGE)MicroMacro - Crime City (Pegasus Spiele)It's A Wonderful Life (Lucky Duck)In Vino Morte (Button Shy)Nidavellir (Pegasus Spiele) To try MicroMacro: https://www.micromacro-game.com/en/index.html To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game ImpactLike the Facebook Page: Board Game ImpactInstagram: @boardgameimpactEmail: boardgameimpact@gmail.com Audio Transcript (Generated by AI...Coming Soon)

In this episode Josh brought up a discussion topic that was the focus of the entire show, how do we go about "teaching and learning games?" Given our backgrounds in education we easily could have kept talking about this but had to cut ourselves off but it was a lot of fun to have this personal conversation in an effort of sharing our perspectives and experiences. In addition, we also dive into game design choices such as intro games, recommended first plays, and campaign/legacy systems as a method of the game trying to be the teacher. We hope that you enjoy this episode, and more importantly find it helpful to you and your game group. As Josh mentioned several times, we would love to hear from you about what you have seen that has worked well or not so well. Please email those suggestions to us at Boardgameimpact@gmail.com. To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game ImpactLike the Facebook Page: Board Game ImpactInstagram: @boardgameimpactEmail: boardgameimpact@gmail.com Audio Transcription (Generated by AI) 00:00:09 - 00:05:02 And this episode of board game impact. We're going to be talking about teaching and learning games and some strategies that ends a stay tuned. How do you welcome to the latest episode of board game impact. My name is bruce. And i'm always joined by. This is josh and today. we're gonna be talking about teaching and learning games. But if you haven't heard if you haven't listened to us before please make sure to hit that. Subscribe button so you can get all the latest episodes because we are taking our educational lenses working on my phd. And josh and i both work and higher education and so we take those lenses and we apply them to the gaming situations that were having to break them down for your group benefit and so two days probably one of the most important ones there because we're literally talking about teaching and learning. It's a little on the nose with this little on the nose with this one like literally. I was teaching my class earlier today. So this is really about like some strategies and things like that. But i'll let josh get into that in a second but that is who we are. We also do some youtube videos occasionally. But we're very excited to be talking to you about this. So make sure to subscribe and then also go on over to facebook and instagram and follow us there. So just this was your brainchild which is interesting because we both work in education in find opposite fifty four for us to do this so walk us through kind of where this game from. Yes so this is a topic that i've been very interested in bringing to the show for quite a while now and where this really started for me is. I have traveled a lot over the past five ten years of my life. I've moved around for different jobs and different things like that and board games have always been my home whenever i find a new home. Is you know the first thing i do is i find. Where's where do people meet up to play board games in this new town that i'm living in and so it's how i introduce myself to people and how i meet people. I have found in the process of doing that. That i as i find new groups and new individuals that i'm learning a lot of new games that i hadn't heard of from other people but i'm also bringing a lot of two groups that have not had those games before and so i'm doing a lot of teaching And a lot of learning. And so i have realized and found and discovered over time some techniques and ways that i have modified the way that i teach games too i think improve my teaching methodology for different games. I found things work. I found things that don't work. And and so. I kind of wanted to bring this topic to the show. And you know. Bruce and i. We've we've talked a little bit. About how a very particular game that we're going to mention a little bit later on has a really great teaching mechanism built into the rule book. And that really kind of prompted me to say you ...

In this episode Bruce has finally thawed out in Texas and although he lost power several times he is thankful because board games don't require power so he was able to get in even more gaming. Together Bruce and Josh talk about what they have been playing recently as well as some of what they have backed or are excited about on Kickstarter. Enjoy! Specific Games Discussed: Root (Leder Games)Sleeping Gods (Red Raven Games)Merlin (Queen Games)Canvas (Road To Infamy) Kickstarters and coming soon things Darwin's Journey (Thundergryph)Maquis 2nd Edition (Side Room Games)Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition (Stronghold Games)Radlands (Roxley)Clinic 2nd & 3rd Extensions (AV Studio)CoraQuest (Dan & Cora Hughes)Crafting Arzium (Zoom Out Media)Meeples & Monsters (AEG)War Chest: Seige Expansion (AEG)Red Rising (Stonemaier Games) To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game ImpactLike the Facebook Page: Board Game ImpactInstagram: @boardgameimpactEmail: boardgameimpact@gmail.com Audio Transcription (Generated by AI) Episode 53 Thawed Out 00:00:08 - 00:05:03 In this episode of board game impacts. We're going to be talking about a whole bunch of kick starters and gains. You've been playing reselling now that we've been thought out here in texas a stay tuned. Welcome back to another episode of board game impact. Of course my name is bruce. And i'm joined by. This is josh. Josh and so we are recording I just want to give a quick caveat before we get started so the episode that came out last week. This is yeah. It's only been a week. And that is because texas froze over for a week and so thank you for understanding this kind of like weird schedule just one put that out there because literally there's rolling quote unquote rolling blackouts across the state and for many people. It wasn't rolling and there's still power and things like that and so if you're listening to this and the state of texas we just want to say and you're still having some ongoing things or friends who are just wanted to say like. Hey i hope all that gets worked out fast and that you are safe and that we are here with you and this is one of those times. That josh is getting put out there. Very thankful to be aboard gamer. Because when the power went out for hours on end i was able to get in some games and just opened up the blinds in the snow. The snow reflected the the sun pretty well so we can get some games so actually have more games than i was planning to even be able to talk about things going on. That's good right. Glad you found found some ways to entertain while you were there definitely elizabeth and i were thinking about you a lot over the last weekend of course Sitting all of our thoughts and well wishes to all of our listeners and everyone Down there in texas I know that that is a struggle I can only imagine what some folks have been going through so Yeah glad here that you Are doing well. I'm glad to hear that that caitlin is doing well and Hope hope everyone else out. There is also making through in this Very very strange times very much and by strange like you can't be like you're right on the money because literally four days ago it was negative one. And it's now seventy so it is just crazy. What's been nice this out there. I'm on a couple email threads with fellow geeks. Who board game geek. Things and it's been really nice having people like reach out and see this community come together and so if you're like okay. What the heck is this podcast about. This is your first time. We are so this is a board game related podcast. And so what does she do. We both work in higher education. And so what we do. Is we break down our gaming experiences through our educational lenses for the benefit of you and your gaming group and so if that sounds like something of interest makes to hit subscribe and we put out these episodes every other week with the obvious exception of texas freezes over so with that be...

In this episode Bruce & Josh take a deep dive into Dune Imperium by Dire Wolf Studios. This coveted intellectual property along with the unique combination of deck building by the creators of CLANK! and worker placement make this game an interesting one to play. Listen in to this complete deep dive into our experiences for your benefit. To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game ImpactLike the Facebook Page: Board Game ImpactInstagram: @boardgameimpactEmail: boardgameimpact@gmail.com Audio Transcription (Generated by AI) 00:00:08 - 00:05:03 In this episode of board game impact the spice must flow as we talk about dune imperium. Welcome back to another episode of impact. As always i am bruce. I'm jordan. Joined by and this is josh. Well josh they say that fears the mind killer but so far getting started is thrown me off. I think it's just because we're very excited about this game and talk about it. Because i know you and i both had some anticipation with it. But before we get into that if this is your first episode of board game impact what you're here for is we look at games through educational lenses. We both work fulltime and higher education and we apply those lenses to unpack games and gaming experiences for you and your benefit so by listening to this is gonna be a deep dive into dune. Imperium and so Josh what do you want to say to kick us off a little bit. Yeah bruce. I was very excited about this game. I definitely had my acquisition disorder All a buzz So love the dune franchise Barracks cited to see this movie. When it finally comes out please. Yes at some point But you know. I fell in love. I actually came late to the dune party. I kinda picked up the books. Probably about two or three years ago And just absolutely fell in love because it's a phenomenal especially the first book The the main book dune For listeners who aren't really aware dune imperium is set in the dune universe series of novels by frank. Herbert sifi Political intrigue drama type series. That is absolutely fantastic So very very excited to play this really excited to talk about it and and get some thoughts. Yeah and so Dean premium is made by designed by paldon and it was put out by dire wolf who you might know for doing some pretty great things over with some digital app adaptations so they did the digital adaptations of route but also this is the team that brought clank together. So there's a little bit deck building in this. Some really cool things and josh was saying a little bit about his position -ality so like our lenses that are getting applied to this. I was later to the dune thing too. I honestly picked up a copy. Abdoun my local like half price books for like five bucks two years ago. Because i'm like. I need to read this. And then when i found out the movie was coming out and was like blown away by the trailer owes like i need to read this and so i read the book and then a month before the movie is supposed to come out. Movie comes out next year. So i'm a little caught up now but honestly back in the day josh before i ever really knew. What dune was things like that. I was really into the real time strategy games and like command and conquer right or red alert. But i also really like dune. Two thousand which was based on the dune universe and these different houses vying for control. Did you ever play that. I did not. It's pretty cool. It's exactly like command and conquer and things like that. Where you have your factions. You build the buildings and then you're trying to go out which later evolved into things like starcraft which took the world by storm but yeah these things were first starcraft. Just put that out. There did not never never played any of that. Okay look that up yeah. It's pretty cool. The graphics today's standard. Not that great. But if you like the lower of dune sand worms. I knew what a sand worm was new kinds of stuff back. Then and so.

In this episode Bruce and Josh talk about several games they have been playing lately, all of which have been in the BGG hotness at respective times. Find out what we thought about them and what we they brought out in ourselves and fellow gamers! Specific Games Discussed: Tapestry + Plans & Ploys (Stonemaier)A War of Whispers (2nd Ed) (Starling Games)Dwellings of Eldervale (Breaking Games)Beyond the Sun (Rio Grande) To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game ImpactLike the Facebook Page: Board Game ImpactInstagram: @boardgameimpactEmail: boardgameimpact@gmail.com Audio Transcription (Generated by AI....Coming Soon)

This episode is a celebration! We recorded it LIVE at the conclusion of an online game day where we raised awareness and funds for Tabletop Alliance. What better way to live up how we end every episode with "go make a positive impact on the world." Bruce and Josh are joined in the beginning by some others who participated in the game day, then there is some reflection on the day as well as the past 49 episodes, and then some excitement that is to come despite everything going on in the world at the time. We are so humbled and cannot believe we are at 50 episodes, and cannot wait to do 50 more! To learn more about Tabletop Alliance Visit TabletopAlliance.org To donate to the nonprofit text "Tabletop" to 44-321 (standard message/data rates may apply) Giveaway Link: https://gleam.io/yNVv8/kicking-off-2021-30-mm-giveaway Giveaway CODE: “ALLIANCE”  ------------------------ Show Notes To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game Impact Like the Facebook Page: Board Game Impact Instagram: @boardgameimpact Email: boardgameimpact@gmail.com Transcript (Generated by AI...coming soon)

Let's kick 2021 off right by having a different and special episode to showcase how both Bruce and Josh are working to make a positive impact on the world, the quote they end ever episode with! In this special episode Bruce & Josh talk about Tabletop Alliance a new 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization they created which works with educators and community leaders to enhance their work through the incorporation of games! Learn more about Tabletop Alliance & Donate - https://tabletopalliance.org/ RSVP for the January 9th Game Day - https://fb.me/e/1QfqHXZOO Giveaway - https://gleam.io/yNVv8/kicking-off-2021-30-mm-giveaway Secret Code - "ALLIANCE" Special Thanks to: FoxDeborahDianaMatthew P(All Aboard Games)Scott B (Attorney)Michael “Futiles” To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game ImpactLike the Facebook Page: Board Game ImpactInstagram: @boardgameimpactEmail: boardgameimpact@gmail.com Audio Transcript (Generated by AI...Coming Soon)

Tis the season and Bruce & Josh talk about their holiday wishlists. In addition Bruce and Josh share some reflections on 2020 to be thankful for and well wishes for the start of the new year. Specific Games Discussed: Clash of Cultures: Monumental Edition (WizKids)Twilight Imperium 4th Edition: Prophecy of Kings ExpansionWarhammer 40K Battlezone Manufactorum Sanctum Administratus (Games Workshop)Memoir 44 (Days of Wonder)Animal Adventures: Dungeons & Doggies Volume 1Star Wars Unlock (Space Cowboys)Maracaibo (Games Up)Tapestry Plans & Ploys Expansion (Stonemaier)Warhammer Warcry (Games Workshop)Yokohama (TMG)Tawantinsuyu (Board and Dice) Contest - https://gleam.io/yNVv8/kicking-off-2021-30-mm-giveaway Secret Giveaway code "ALLIANCE" To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game ImpactLike the Facebook Page: Board Game ImpactInstagram: @brucedpbgmail-comEmail: boardgameimpact@gmail.com Audio Transcript (Generated by AI) 00:00:18 - 00:05:01 hello and welcome to another episode of board game impact as always. This is bruce. And i'm joined by ho ho ho. This is josh and we hope that no matter where you're listening to this from that you are able to celebrate the holidays. Whichever those are we just happened to have this music for this but no matter what holiday you choose to celebrate. Or don't we're just so thankful to get to have these winter seasons together and spend time together and just come together as friends and family and all this time and we had two thousand twenty has been a heck of a year so coming together whether virtually things like that. It's really important so we encourage you to do this. And that's why we're gonna do this episode so josh. What are we doing for this episode. Well bruce for this episode. We're gonna talk about what are the games. We are hoping. Make it under our tree this year. Exactly so for us. Josh do both and our families both do celebrate christmas but regardless it's really just the spirit of giving and so that's why we thought this would be cool just here what things we're looking forward to but in this different vein of light and so i think it's important to start us off not with what we want. But how do we ask for it. And by the way real quick if this is your first episode of ward game impact first. It's a very different than normal. The second of all what. We are biweekly. Podcast on gaming and joshua both work fulltime in higher education and we apply those educational lenses to our gaming experiences to break them down for the benefit of union game group. That sounds like something of interest to you like. Make sure to subscribe. And if you wanna learn more about us and see like behind the scenes stuff you can also head over to board game. Impact dot com to learn that or check out the patriots patriot. Patriots dot com. Such him back but with that being said josh. How the heck do we even tell people about what we want for the holidays or birthday. Whatever what do you do so this is really challenging for me. And i thinks probably something. That's challenging for a lot of gamers out there especially if you are interested in things revolve around gaming and you have family that may not really understand or be involved in the hobby So one thing that that my family does. And it's just become our thing. Is we have each of us have an amazon wishlist that is shared with the rest of the family that we can ask things to as we go generally personally i would prefer to send people other places you can find places games cheaper. It different online retailers It's nice to support. Local game stores all those types of things but we just find because my family is a little bread out that it is just a little bit easier to just have that amazon wishlist. If people want to go looking other places and find a deal or support local businesses in their areas. They are welcome to do that. But that gives everybody kind of a starting point at least...

In this episode Bruce & Josh crash through 14 different games/expansions that they have acquired during the Pandemic up to that point while talking through some considerations around managing impulses and seeking true satisfaction rather than short term joy. Specific Games Discussed: Pendulum (Stonemaier Games)Tapestry + Plans & Ploys Expansion (Stonemaier Games)Azul: Summer Pavilion (Next Move)StartUps (Oink Games)Blitzkrieg (Plastic Soldier Company)Tekhenu (Board & Dice)Memoir '44 Easter Front Expansion (Rio Grande Games)Scythe: Wind Gambit Expansion (Stonemaier Games)Wingspan: Oceania Expansion (Stonemaier Games)Racoon Tycoon (Forbidden Games)Warhammer 40K [Tau Army and Terrain] (Games Workshop)Clans of Caledonia (Karma Games)Dune Imperium (Dire Wolf Digital) To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game ImpactLike the Facebook Page: Board Game ImpactInstagram: @boardgameimpactEmail: boardgameimpact@gmail.com Audio Transcription (Generated by AI) Episode 47 Pandemic Aquisitions 00:00:09 - 00:05:14 In this episode of board game impact. Bruce and josh are going to crash course through their pandemic acquisitions once. They got him what they got in. Believe it or not they're going to cover twenty fourteen different games including expansions efan. Welcome to another episode of board game impact. As always i am. Bruce and i'm joined by. This is josh and for those of you who are new to the show. Josh and i both work fulltime in education and we apply our educational lenses to the games and experiences that were having in this great hobby for you and your gaming groups benefits if that sounds like of interest to you make sure to click subscribe on all the things so we can get this content all the time so josh it's been twenty twenty and if you're listening to this this in the future hope things are great in the future. But in the meantime we're going into the now. Holiday season of twenty twenty cases are on the rise in the united states. But we're not getting into all of that. We are going to get into is. What have we been buying throughout these last couple of months and i also have some research pulled up on our buying habits and what can be going on there during these kinds of things but we're gonna be talking about games you've acquired and also more importantly what led us to getting them and the reasons behind why we're getting them and so if you're interested in content like that wanna points you over to our youtube channel. We recently just posted another video. This one's on loss aversion particularly in clans of caledonia. So how games and other situations can make you not want to take certain actions based on the potential losses. The you might be losing things on the board or resources etc so go. Check that out over on you. Youtube pitch but josh. What are you interested in about today in this topic. Yeah so i mean we've got. I think we've both been doing a little bit of. Yeah i guess therapy shopping by the looks of it as well as just some general You know getting some new things in and playing around with them. And so i think it's really interesting to talk to you especially with With you because i i've been able just by the nature of Where where i live and the the case rates of where i've been living Things are getting a little bit worse right now. But i've been able to be playing some games in person and so My purchases have been hitting the table pretty quickly for the most part But i find it very interesting kind of change that i've seen in in your purchasing habits and so i think that's something that i'm really interested to kind of explore a little bit here. Yeah i think that's going to be cool to talk about to and you're right You have been able to get things to the table so one of the things we talk about often is position in things right. We are both married We both with our spouses. And that's all that are there.

This episode is something new for Bruce & Josh as it is conversation around a singular topic and its interactions within the gaming experience. This episode is all a researched conversation about the sunk cost fallacy which refers to people having a greater tendency to continue an endeavor once an investment in time, effort, or money has been made (Arkes & Blumer, 1985). Inspired by Bruce's recent videos on the YouTube page and a recent play of For Sale by Josh in which he felt the pressure to keep bidding money to stay for a property card enabled this conversation and we hope you enjoy. We are toying with having one of our 2 episodes a month being themed like this, let us know your thoughts! Specific Games Discussed: For Sale (Eagle Gryphon Games)Modern Art (CMON)Warhammer 40k (Games Workshop)Gloomhaven (Cepalofair Games)Wingspan (Stonemaier Games) Book: The Willpower Instinct (Kelly McGonigal) To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game ImpactLike the Facebook Page: Board Game ImpactInstagram: @boardgameimpactEmail: boardgameimpact@gmail.com Audio Transcription (Generated by AI...Coming Soon)

In this episode Bruce was inspired by the design of the Dune Imperium pre-order and conversation from the epistemology video/podcast episode to shed more light on aspects of aesthetic value. This premiered first on the Board Game Impact YouTube page, but the content transfers well to the audio format. The reason for this different kind of episode is because of the life happenings that occurred for Bruce which he discusses at the intro, and thanks you for understanding. We hope you get excited for this different type of content over on the YouTube page and would love to hear from you about your thoughts/ideas! Specific Game Discussed: Dune Imperium (Dire Wolf Digital) To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/boardgameimpactSubscribe on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMlAGoFLfsg2PYfl0SvthTQ/Subscribe to the podcast: https://boardgameimpact.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/boardgameimpactInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/boardgameimpact/Email: boardgameimpact [at] gmail [dot] com Audio Transcription (Generated by AI) 00:00:12 - 00:05:10 How everybody in this episode. Bruce is going to talk about the dune imperium preorder and aesthetic value stay tuned. Well how do you everybody. This is bruce with board game impact. It's just me today if you listen to last week's episode then you know kind of what's up but if this is your first episode. Welcome this one's going to be a little different than normal podcast episodes but that being said what we do over here. Impact is josh. I both work fulltime in higher education. I also teach some classes of the university. And i'm getting peachy and so what we're doing. Is we apply our educational lenses to the game experiences and games we playing and the game content we are consuming too then analyze it for your benefit and present that back to you for you and your gaming group so hopefully you can make informed choices about your experiences in the hobby and so with that being said this twenty twenty s been just weird for everybody. Let's just put it that way. And if you're listening to this in the future this is coming out at the beginning of november and we're still in the midst of the pandemic and also now all the election stuff so yes just look back on this with a grain of salt. And so what's going on to is as i talked about last week's intro i. We've josh and i both had some things. I was sick for a while. As well as i just had a family member pass in these last two weeks so i've been pulled away for family things which made scheduling regular episodes with a little difficult. And i thank you for understanding that. But that being said i have also had moments of inspiration and it's been this one of these cathartic releases of doing these things to do something uplifting while also attending all these family things which you can imagine having these spurts of emotion and feelings both that being said last week so it talked about What's called the what is knowledge and it was a crash course based on some conversations. I encourage you to go. Listen to that one. But as i mentioned i was going to be doing is this one is all about the dune imperium preorder and this actually stems from conversations in the youtube comments for that last episode so the youtube video for the last episode actually came first and then there was some conversation. Hey lean into this thing on value a little bit more. We'd like that. And i have many more ideas of different types of content of essentially combining my phd work. As well as the sport game content and trying to mash that up and present that back of cure some lessons and so. I've got some really cool things. I'm working on but to be one hundred percent transparent. The feedback for these videos has been nothing but the most reward one of the most rewarding things i've done don't get me wrong. I absolutely love recording. This podcast with josh.

This episode is a little different, as Bruce will share there has been some life things that popped up which threw off recording schedule. This being said, Bruce was able to make some new content and post it to the Board Game Impact YouTube Channel. In this episode Bruce shares what has been going on, the inspiration for the video, and the introduces the audio of the video content which has been very popular on the YouTube Channel. This is not the norm for the channel, but Bruce felt this is still a great way to get you some podcast content while acknowledging that there has been some life that has come up...alas the narrative of 2020. Thanks for understanding, and we hope you enjoy! Specific Game Discussed: Tell Stones (Riot Games) To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/boardgameimpact Subscribe on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMlAGoFLfsg2PYfl0SvthTQ/Subscribe to the podcast: https://boardgameimpact.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/boardgameimpact Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/boardgameimpact/ Email: boardgameimpact [at] gmail [dot] com Audio Transcript (Generated by AI) 00:00:11 - 00:05:05 In today's episode of boardgame impact Bruce is off talk about bias in reviewing. So stay tuned. Howdy everybody. It's Bruce with board game impact and in this episode. It's going to be a little different. It's just me and that's wonderful. But Josh is sorely missed of course and so this is your first time tuning into board game impact where podcast in which we are bringing our educational ends is both Josh and I work full time in higher education. I also teach a couple of classes adjoining my PhD and so what we do is we take those educational lenses and apply them to the games and gaming experiences that we're playing and getting to enjoy some time and apply that to your benefit and your gaming groups benefit so you can make informed choices. And so that sounds like something of interest to you make sure to hit subscribe but that being said today is going to be a little different in that if you are listening to this live you might be wondering. Hey, I I think we're a week behind where was the content and but if you're listening to us in the future dead there was a week Gap and so what's going on in being fully transparent with everybody is Josh had his wedding anniversary and then we were supposed to record but then I actually got a pretty sick -4 That Russell looking forward to our semesters ending so we have even more freedom but that being said in these like different times and not really knowing when families going to need different things. There's a couple of moments in which I got pretty just inspired by some conversations. I was seeing online and I thought it was a perfect opportunity to do something different that I haven't done before off and that was combined the kind of work and kind of lenses. I know that sounds interesting based on the intro just did but really take like let's go to the library and let's look stuff up and let's scripts something out and let's do an educational lesson from like my teaching side of things something. I hadn't really considered before cuz there's no content that looks like that and I did it and I put it out there to the world and immediately. I got some really good feedback and I'm not going to go through like what inspired it because you're going to hear that in a second job. Is what this episode is today, is it is that first video? So this one's going to be on what's called epistemology. So what is knowledge and unpacking that as well as a little bit about value off. But the reason I did this I will tell you that and I'm going to talk about it more in the upcoming minutes here in a second. But what happened was I was in a conversation over on the secret cabal guilt cuz Josh and I both listen to the secret cabal. We love their content and there was this interesting conversation about honestly a ...

In this episode Bruce & Josh dig into the different contexts of gaming and how those experiences can shape the way we view or get to interact with games as media creators in order to shed light on how different contexts you game in can influence your experiences in the hobby. In particular they talk about gaming at home, at a Meetup/Pub/Cafe, online, and at conventions. If you want to watch the video Bruce did about game reviewers having different perspectives on the same game, check out this YouTube video he created: https://youtu.be/25VDIfg6snU To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game ImpactLike the Facebook Page: Board Game ImpactInstagram: @boardgameimpactEmail: boardgameimpact@gmail.com Audio Transcription (Generated by AI....will be uploaded a couple days after episode launches, thanks for your patience)

In this GEEKtastic episode Bruce and Josh talk about games they have been playing and dabble in their reflections on BoardGameArena. Then in the latter half of the episode dig into the Geeky books they have been reading lately in honor of this being episode 42, which for the unknown listeners out there is the meaning of life according to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Stay tuned and thanks for all the Fish! Specific Games Discussed: Yokohama (Tasty Minstrel Games)Super Skill Pinball 4 Cade (Wiz Kids)Wingspan Digital Edition (Stonemaier Games & Monster Couch) Free Print & Play of Super Skill Pinball 4 Cade: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2391700/free-print-and-play-pinball-roll-write Specific Books Discussed: The Wheel of Time (Robert Jordan)Star Wars: Thrawn & Star Wars: Thrawn Alliances (Timothy Zahn)Homeland (R.A. Salvatore)Dune (Frank Herbert) To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game ImpactLike the Facebook Page: Board Game ImpactInstagram: @boardgameimpactEmail: boardgameimpact@gmail.com Enter the contest: https://gleam.io/yxaS5/board-game-impact-10-mm-september-2020-giveaway Audio Transcription (Generated by AI...Coming Soon)

In this episode Bruce and Josh are back at gaming after saying thank you for your kind support during their Extra Life fundraiser benefiting Children's Miracle Network Hospitals COVID-19 Relief Fund. In this episode they talk through two games and then ended up doing a fairly deep dive into Pendulum, the latest game from Stonemaier Games. Games Discussed: Dominations: Road to Civilization (Holy Grail Games)Root digital adaptation (Leder Games & Dire Wolf Studios)Pendulum (Stonemaier Games) Contest Link: https://gleam.io/yxaS5/board-game-impact-10-mm-september-2020-giveaway To learn the secret code listen to the episode or read the transcription below (once available) To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game ImpactLike the Facebook Page: Board Game ImpactInstagram: @boardgameimpactEmail: boardgameimpact@gmail.com Transcript (Generated by AI) 00:00:08 - 00:05:04 Hey and welcome to another episode of Board Game Impact in today's episode, we're GONNA be talking about initial impressions with pendulum many other Games were. Jam, packed episodes. So stay tuned. Hello and welcome back to another episode of Board Game. Impact. As always I am bruce joined by. This is Josh and Josh. Before we get into anything we needed to save two very important words how about you say? I just want to say a huge huge huge. Thank you to all of our listeners and all of our donors from our most recent recording where we did a live recording for extra life. Yeah then. Seriously cannot thank y'all enough. So if you if this is your first episode. We're a board game podcast that talks about games or playing all those kinds of things, but we both become from an educational lens. So that way you can learn about what experiences we're having what we're excited about. So you can make informed decision for your gaming group however last episode. We lived up to our motto of ending up every episode on go make a positive impact on the world by participating in a thing called life life nonprofits been around since two thousand eight since then they've raised over seventy million dollars benefit children's miracle network. So essentially. Has gamers use their platforms to raise awareness to help kids, and they did tabletop appreciation weekend with Josh and I both created a team for called tabletop alliance. And we did a ten hour stream in some of our friends were on their playing games. So thank you to those individuals as well, and they actually made some cameos on our last episode. But that day just we're able to raise eight, hundred, Ninety, eight, hundred, and ninety, five dollars for. Kids Children's hospitals I mean this crazy. Awesome and so there's so many good ways. Yeah absolutely, it was a fantastic time great to get to game with a lot of folks that I personally haven't gotten a chance to play with for quite some time and for it to go to such a fantastic cause and for our listeners and friends and family who are able to donate such a tremendous tremendous amount of support and the love is unending at this point. And just thank you to everyone. Yeah. Thank you from the bottom our hearts. It was it was an amazing amazing experience a kind of flew by because we were so invested but it was really nice. We had this. Sound every time somebody donated live. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. If you want to see that stream, you can actually go see it. If you WANNA watch it, it's over on our facebook. So facebook dot com slash board board game back. If you want to learn more about our extra stuff, you can also find that on Instagram, which is board game impact. Yeah go check that out. It's a really great cause if you want to donate to. That Fund fundraiser, you still can because it's open for the rest of the year. It's just how that platform works on, which is really great. So you can find those links still over on those pages and we encourage you if this is something that is meaningful to you and y...

Thank you thank you thank you! This episode is different than the rest in that it was recorded live while being streamed over Facebook and YouTube to cap off our 10 hours of gaming content for Extra Life's Tabletop Appreciation Weekend benefitting Children's Miracle Network, Children's Hospital COVID-19 Relief Fund! During the stream we were able to raise $895 to help such a great cause. If you want to learn more about Extra Life, join our team, and donate click here: https://www.extra-life.org/team/TabletopAlliance To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game ImpactLike the Facebook Page: Board Game ImpactInstagram: @boardgameimpactEmail: boardgameimpact@gmail.com Audio Transcription (Generated by AI) Episode 40 10 Hours of Gaming LIVE for Extra Life 00:00:10 - 00:05:00 Hello and welcome to another episode of Board Game. Impact in today's episode, this was recorded live during our extra life things. So stay tuned to hear about the amazing impact the y'all are able to make ends. Thank you so much for it in advance. Hello and welcome to another episode of Board Game Impact. Coming to you live. So of course, my name is Bruce and I am joined by. Josh Year joined by Josh, but you are also joined by a number of other folks. That is true. So the the the pauses for the suspense. Josh, how about you introduce yourself real quick and then we will get everybody else on board real fast. Hello listeners as always you get to hear from Josh today, but we have a number of guests with us. I will go ahead and let them introduce themselves. So. Go on how `bout, we go with Justin. would. Thanks for everything today Bruce. Really, well, and a lot of. Awesome. So. Thankful. You're here. So yeah, we're going to get a quick rundown from y'all here in a second George. What are you? What do you think? Tell. Everybody you're here. Oh, thanks, George. Yeah, I had a great time today. I'M A love to love to be around the table playing games the this is the next best thing. And Conrad. There Yeah. real treat to able to do something. and. It's. Equal. saw. Thanks thanks Josh for by. Games all day. No thank you guys so much for jumping on. We really appreciate. It was a blast to get to play with you all for. The time that we got to play so And you know the the money raised was definitely. Cherry on top of of all of that. So. Thank you to all of our viewers throughout the day as well. Yeah so If you are currently viewing this live. Please let us know you're here in the chat on facebook and things. and. So real quick. What we did today is. Josh and I learned about extra life. We learned about it a while ago to be honest and but actually normally happens in November. and. Extra life. If you've never heard of it, it's been around since two thousand eight they've raised over seventy million dollars for children's Miracle Network they partner with one hundred and. One hundred seventy different children's miracle network hospitals throughout North America which is really just great. It's really benefiting kids and right now they're also raising the funds towards the. Children's hospitals. COVID. Nineteen Relief Fund which is really really really cool. So just fight forty million people unemployed in the US alone. So I know finances are rough for a lot of families out there, and this is a really great way to help kids. With all of this and help those families who are in that situation I have a story told at the beginning of streaming. Tell again a minute. But essentially what we did is Josh when I found out about extra tabletop appreciation month. Appreciation weekend about two weeks ago if you're listening to this live or listening to this on. Tuesday. And we end every episode with the same thing, every single time and that is. Go, and make a positive impact on the world and so when we learned about this and we love gaming and this is about tabletop gaming doing something good for others, Josh what are we say?

In this episode Bruce and Josh are excited to share games they are looking forward to. This includes games they have purchased, games coming out, games back on kickstarter, and the like. This is in an effort to share some things that you too may look forward to amongst all the different times we are living in. Specific Games Discussed: Perseverance by Mindclash GamesWarhammer 40k 9th Edition by Games WorkshopPendulum by Stonemaier GamesSleeping Gods by Red Raven GamesRaccoon Tycoon & the Fat Cat Expansion by Forbidden Games To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game ImpactLike the Facebook Page: Board Game ImpactInstagram: @boardgameimpactEmail: boardgameimpact@gmail.com Audio Transcript (Powered by AI) 00:00:10 - 00:05:03 Welcome to this episode of Board Game Impact Today. We're talking about things we're looking forward to so kickstarter games that we've got games that we were starting to work with and going to play eventually. We're really just some cool game. So stay tuned. Hey Josh Hey bruce were throwing something different at y'all. So. Welcome aboard game and backed Josh both work in higher education. Have Masters degrees in the things, and we're breaking down game experiences and and what we're experiencing in the hobby for your benefit. So that sounds cool. Hit subscribe. Josh in the last episode, I'm like all amped up right now I don't know why. A whole new energy for whole new. Yeah. This is not normally what this is like but maybe So in the last episode Josh, you and I were talking about how kickstarter has been on the rise and they had forty percent increase on things of sales even when you remove allies. Frost haven being one of the most successful funded things on kickstarter ever. Things are going really well on there. I know were in the middle of Covid, but we're also getting to experience some things digitally. Some. Of these things and so with that being said I thought it'd be cool to just make this its own episode and let's talk about. Games were looking forward to so this could be. We've backed during this pandemic kick starters back before this pan-demic or games pre-ordered that are finally coming and that we're going to get to experience soon. Or Games that we have and we're working on, they'll make that'll make sense in a minute. But we can't play yet. So Josh, why aren't you jump in with this with just an example of what we're talking about and kickoff absolutely. So we'll start with. The thing that I am most amped because it is the most recent announcement. I. Guess There's one on here this more recent and we're honestly amped. were an for. I think lanes what I'm talking like my my my amps name right now. But yeah, Josh what is it? I. WanNa talk for a second about perseverance. Perseverance is something we all need in our lives right now Josh Nova in the game yes. By mind clash, do you need it in our lives in more ways than one if you have been a listener of this show for quite some time, you will know that one of my all time favorite game publishing companies is mind clash gains mind. Clash Games has published. Two of my top ten games of all time Tra Kerryon and an acronym along with another fantastic game that does not get enough. Love Ignition Serie. Brea. Mind, clash is back with their fourth project and. I don't think they have missed yet. I think every game they have published has been a home run and this looks like a yet another. Grand Slam in in. My Book. Perseverance is a game that is live on kickstarter as we record this. Only two days left to go. So probably by the time this goes live, it will be down hopefully leaving leads. There will be some late pledges out there for. All of the listeners. WHAT PERSEVERANCE IS IS A. Game it is actually two games. Oh. Perseverance is to standalone games which can be played either independently or as a chronicle So Yixin on the Kelly castaway chronicles. Yes. Appearance cavs,

Quick announcement! We are participating in Extra Life's Tabletop Appreciation Weekend (August 22-23, 2020) benefiting Children's Miracle Network Hospitals as well as the Children's Hospital COVID-19 Relief Fund! That's not all....we have also launched a contest where you can win a $10 USD virtual gift card to MiniatureMarket.com to help raise awareness for the show and our efforts for this great cause. Enter the contest: https://gleam.io/E65gk/board-game-impact-10-mm-august-2020-giveaway CONTEST SECRET CODE: "EXTRALIFE" Join/Support our Extra Life team "Tabletop Alliance": https://www.extra-life.org/team/TabletopAlliance Audio Transcript (Powered by AI) 00:00:11 - 00:05:03 In today's episode of Board Game Impact. We're not GONNA have a full episode because this is a special announcement. So how'd y'all? It's Bruce it's just me today. This is going to be a very short episode because we have an episode coming out tomorrow I'm so if you're listening to this in real time today is Monday and tomorrow is Tuesday. So we have our next episode coming up tomorrow. But I wanted to make this announcement because there's some things going on that I wanna make you aware of so. Since recording a episode is GonNa Launch Tomorrow Josh and I found out about and have gotten involved with extra life. So Extra Life is a nonprofit here in the US It's been around since two thousand eight and they benefit children's miracle network hospitals, and so since two thousand eight, they've donated to seven hundred seventy million dollars man my word right now I'm blown away for a reason I'm going to get in second. That's why I'm a little tripping over my words of they've donated over seventy million dollars to children's miracle network. And this year, they're doing a tabletop appreciation weekends. This is in the month of August of twenty twenty in the midst of the pandemic and people starting to go back to school, and with that, there's a lot of people who need help. And especially kids. And help help with hospital things isn't something that a kid or a family with kids should really have to worry about and so. They're also partnering this year with Children's hospitals covid nineteen really fund, and that's why they're doing this table top appreciation window, and so with that being said Josh, end every single episode with go of positive impact on the world, and as soon as we heard about this since recording tomorrow's episode, we said we have to do this like this is an absolute. So they're tabletop appreciation weekend is August twenty, six, twenty, second and twenty third? So, we're instill some the logistics. But we are planning to do a stream. So probably on Youtube of us, playing games with friends, even recording an episode of board game impact live timing still to be worked out. If you want to find more out about the logistics, we're gonNA posting those as we figured them out. Leading Up to twenty second that Saturday. That's going to be over on our facebook page, but then also on our personal pages. So. End Of course on our patriot. With all that being said, go on social media and Patriot on to find out more details. Also, if you want to support us or learn more about it in the show notes for this episodes. If you go into your podcast player and quick show notes, we have posted our team page where you can get involved. And you can sign up or you can share that link with friends family whoever to help raise awareness for this great cause. So if you were to get involved. Real. Quick. What it looks like it's free to sign up and to participate what's Cool Geo locates your location. Wherever, you are in the United States if you're in the United States and with that being said, it'll find the closest children's miracle. Network hospital to you. So mine is the mclane children's Miracle Hospital here in Bryan College. Station Texas. So that is my children's hospital choice. For my campaign.

In today's episode Bruce and Josh talk about some of the new experiences they are having in light of COVID impacting areas differently than jump into a conversation about how different gaming platforms may be better depending on your personal desired outcomes. Some specific things covered are: Facilitating a 10x5 with a gaming groupSteps a gaming group can take to decrease the time to get something to the tableWhat Online Conventions have been like (BGG's Virtual Gaming Con, Comic Con, etc.)A lively conversation about the different impacts that can be fostered thanks to the scripting and user experience functions of various tabletop online platforms (TableTopia, Table Top Simulator, Board Game Arena, and more) To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game ImpactLike the Facebook Page: Board Game ImpactInstagram: @boardgameimpactEmail: boardgameimpact@gmail.com Transcript (Generated by AI) 00:10 - 05:01 In today's episode of Impact Josh and I talk about experiences that were having an you can have in this digital world stays in. Welcome back for another episode of Board. Game Impact of course I am Bruce I'm joined by. This is Josh and today we're going to be talking about experiences that were having in this weird like digital hybrid world thing that we got going on with Covid nineteen still in full fledge at the time of this recording. So we hope that no matter where you are in the world, you your family, everybody safe, and we can knock this thing out, so we can get back to more things and more gaming around the table, but that being said there's still plenty of cool opportunities that we're having and you can have. And, so we wanted to talk about that today and so. Josh, weren't you? Kinda kick us off like what's going on in your neck of the woods. What are things looking like for gaming for you? Sure so. I kind of have two things going on right now when it comes to to gaming. kind of taking it from two different approaches, so the first is. Still continuing to reconnect with. Past game groups and doing some gaming online I know that you and I have gotten a chance to get some games and together but then also more recently have started to. Isolate my gaming group a little bit so rather than I think I've talked in the past about I have a pretty large game group here. The game store that I normally go to About forty people on average on a weekend awesome and so. Obviously. That's just not gonNA. Work Right now, So I've kind of isolated it down to a handful of people and recently started a ten by. We're calling Tim. By Five kind of scaled down version of ten by ten so furloughs news aren't aware. Choosing ten games. And trying to play those games five times throughout the course of a year so. Keeping it to just a handful of folks, so we've got four people and and really kind of enjoying kind of digging into some depths of SIM Games that we all really really enjoy. That sounds horrible. Yeah. It's been great a really really good time you know. We each threw in the name of two games that we really wanted to. Kind of dig deep into and really get some meat out of okay. Now, we we, we do not have ten so each person then through in one more game for consideration or at twelve twelve. Out of those four extras, we played all of them once and then independent of one another. We ranked those four games one. so our favourite got a score of one are least favorite gotta score four. We revealed those scores tallied them up and golf scored it, so the lowest to scoring games got added into our ten by five, and then we counted those plays towards our five play throughs of each game. So now we just kind of once a week. We get together. We play two games at a time Go through that way. I really really enjoy going through. You know one of the things that I really love about. This hobby is learning new games and. Seeing all these different things coming out,

CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains conversations around Racism, Black Lives Matter, and Representation This episode is different, the times that this episode goes live are different. At this recording there are mass protests throughout the United States in response to systemic racial issues that was catalyzed by the George Floyd death a week before we recorded this. Given the state of the world, Josh and I felt it would be inappropriate to not have a conversation about how we can support voices as a hobby and to encourage that the hobby move to be more inclusive. We love games, but we also believe that the hobby can be more than it currently is. When that happens we all win as at the end of the day games are nothing without people! In this episode we simply have a conversation. We came at this episode from our educational backgrounds to shed light on how we can make a positive impact on the world. The tagline that we end every episode with. In this episode there is no intro we just jump into the conversation. The article that Josh presented titled Seriously – boardgames? Yes, seriously By Patrick Rae is available at the following link: https://www.aaihs.org/seriously-boardgames-yes-seriously/?fbclid=IwAR0OYUfOxhNGKwt5JKWyS0noiAGb7ePCSy3OWFbGVSafVi1tuC1ieO4Fl5Y

During the global pandemic of COVID-19 we have been faced with unprecedented challenges, within this we also see an opportunity to try new technologies, find new ways to connect, and develop new skills. This being said, in today's episode Bruce and Josh share about their journey into playing board games digitally with each other. Since Bruce and Josh live in different states, they have actually been able to play more games together than they normally get to. Specifically, they talk about how to connect with your game community using different apps (Discord, GroupMe, Slack), places to find games online using Steam, then the difference between board game digital adaptions vs simulators, and finally two games that they have played together. Enjoy, be safe, and make a positive impact on the world! Specific Games Discussed: Steam: Rails to Riches (Digital adaptation of Age of Steam)Scythe (Digital Adaption of Scythe)(Asmodee Digital & Stonemaier Games) Communicaiton Platforms for Remote Gaming: DiscordGroupMeSLACKZoom Audit Transcription (Generated by AI....Coming soon)

Turning a situation into an opportunity, Bruce & Josh have still been playing games in this Global Pandemic...it just looks different than large game days of the past. In this episode Bruce & Josh talk about the games they have been playing recently as well as some of the major Kickstarters projects that are interesting them. No matter where you are in the world or what your situation is, you are not alone, and we are and will continue to be here with you. To those who can, make a positive impact on the world. Specific Games Discussed: Everdell Pearl Brook & Bellfair Expansion (Starling Games)Arcadia Quest (CMON & Spaghetti Western Games)Dungeons & Dragons Role Playing Game (Wizards of the Coast)Honey Heist (by Grant H) Kickstarters Discussed: Wrymwood DiceAnkh (CMON)Frosthaven (Cephalofair Games)

The time has come where Bruce & Josh dive deep into not one....but two games! In today's episode Bruce & Josh tackle both versions of Brass, Lancashire & Birmingham. At their core both versions work off the same mechanics but have different twists and adaptions as Lancashire (which Bruce owns) is essentially a new implementation of the much older "Brass" board game by Martin Wallace. Whereas Birmingham (which Josh owns) took the mechanics of Brass and built upon them while adding in some new aspects that make it more approachable than its predecessor. Specific Games Discussed: Brass: Lancashire (by Roxley Games)Brass: Birmingham (by Roxley Games) To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game ImpactLike the Facebook Page: Board Game ImpactInstagram: @boardgameimpactEmail: boardgameimpact@gmail.com Audio Transcription (generated by AI...COMING SOON)

Despite everything going on in the world, Bruce and Josh still have some gaming experiences to talk about. In this episode Bruce shares some lessons he has been taking away from the book "Your Move: What Board Games Teach Us About Life," they talk about some of Asmodee's recent announcements, and then talk about six gaming experiences they have had. Additionally, they talk about the episodes that are coming up and going back to their roots. Specific Games Discussed: Sorcerer City (Druid City Games)Horrified (Ravensburger)Paladins of the West Kingdom (Garphill Games)Age of Steam: Deluxe Edition (Eagle Gryphon Games)Century Spice Road (Plan B Games)Huel Doch! Mau Mau (Ravensburger) Show Notes To learn more about Board Game Impact you can:Join the Patreon: Board Game ImpactLike the Facebook Page: Board Game ImpactInstagram: @boardgameimpactEmail: boardgameimpact@gmail.com

In this episode Bruce and Josh acknowledge the state of things in the world, share encouragement, and of course talk about gaming. Specifically, Bruce and Josh both got out some much older games over the last couple weeks that were new to them, but they definitely want to get them to the table again because they have stood the test of time! Specific Games Discussed: Imperial 2030 (Rio Grande Games)Clash of Cultures (Z-Man Games) To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game ImpactLike the Facebook Page: Board Game ImpactInstagram: @boardgameimpactEmail: boardgameimpact@gmail.com

In today's episode Bruce interviews game designer Derek Zyn about his successfully Kickstarted game "Beasts: Edge of Extinction" and the upcoming expansion titled "Revenge of the Dodos!" Bruce asks Derek about what got him into designing games, the experience running a Kickstarter, choosing to use specific mechanics which some in the hobby call taboo in modern games, and more. We hope that you enjoy this game designer interview episode. To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game ImpactLike the Facebook Page: Board Game ImpactInstagram: @boardgameimpactEmail: boardgameimpact@gmail.com To learn connect with Derek or to learn more about the upcoming expansion: Connect with Derek on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/derekzyn?eid=ARC0Kb5jZW4-O-fzZCP9gp80ZVkopCxQEbz-O65G4fDiOIvNt-088MHMlgrlJaKilujN_n0ZNMaLt8MuCheck out Beasts: Edge of Extinction on BGG: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/260051/beasts-edge-extinctionJoin the Revenge of the Dodos Expansion Event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2495987923986354/ Episode Transcription (Generated by AI...Coming Soon)

In today's episode Bruce and Josh are in the spirit of Valentines in which they share great games to play at the two player count whether that be with a significant other or simply a great friend. They begin by talking about their favorite classic game and wrap up talking about the much anticipated game Sleeping Gods by Ryan Laukat of Red Raven Games, while other amazing games are discussed along the way. Specific Games Discussed: Star Realms by White Wizard GamesTak by Cheapass GamesStar Wars Rebellion by Fantasy Flight GamesViticulure by Stonemaier GamesNemo's War (2nd Edition) by Victory Point GamesJaipur by Days of WonderAbove & Below by Red Rave GamesNear & Far by Red Raven GamesSleeping Gods by Red Raven Games To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game ImpactLike the Facebook Page: Board Game ImpactInstagram: @boardgameimpactEmail: boardgameimpact@gmail.com Audio Transcription: (Generated by AI...Coming Soon)

In this episode Bruce and Josh talk about the games they have been playing recently. Bruce was able to play a bunch of the games you heard about in the post holiday episode, Josh has played other games, but both got to play the European Expansion for Wingspan by Elizabeth Hargraves and published by Stonemaier Games. Specific Games Discussed: Quacks of Quedlinburg by North Star GamesRoam by Red Raven GamesJaipur by AsmodeeTussie Mussie by Button Shy GamesStarfarers of Catan by Catan Studios To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game ImpactLike the Facebook Page: Board Game ImpactInstagram: @boardgameimpactEmail: boardgameimpact@gmail.com Audio Transcription (generated by AI) In today's episode of Board Game Impact. Jack Johnson Bruce Talk through all those games that they got for the holidays but actually getting them played as well as other games from their collections. And then they dig into that new wingspan expansion the European expansion so stay tuned for that and so much more. Welcome to board game impact. My name is Bruce Brown. This is Josh and here board game impact. We are providing and breaking down gaming experiences that we're having through educational lens passionate for this Hobby for you and your game groups benefit so so that sounds like something of interest to you make sure to just click subscribe. We do have that that phone or other device still in your hand so in this episode. We're going to be doing something cool So in the last episode we were talking about all the fun Games we got from the holidays and now that we've had a little bit of time and our students have been trickling back. We both work at universities. We are able to now get to you playing those games. That's really cool but I just wanted to do a quick call out. Josh didn't tell you I was going to do this but I just want to. If between this episode launching in the next episode after this one I'm going to be going through what's called my qualifying exams for my PhD program. So if you can just give me some like good good vibes. I greatly appreciate that so I worked fulltime education but I'm also part time working on the PhD. Besides doing this so that'd be a great help. Please absolutely absolutely bruce in and you have all the well wishes of of myself. My family and I'm sure the listeners so I I know what a a hectic time and pain that can be so best of luck to you and I'm sure you're gonNA knock it out of the park Braschi at that so with that being said I was able to cram in some games to play Josh. You're able to play a bunch of games as well and I'm really looking forward to playing games after the recall. Vague actually have a game night scheduled that night to decompress. So Josh Ron we kick it off with. What have you been playing? What's going on sure so so? Unfortunately I have not had a chance to get any of the Games. I received for the holidays through the table as of recording. Miss Definitely have some Packed away in my game bag for this weekend that that I'm GONNA force upon some unsuspecting expecting Members of my game group but the game that I wanted to talk about. Because it's it's another one of those gains that I kickstarted a while back. I believe back in April Came in right before the holidays and actually spent a good chunk of time over. The holidays is playing Against my wife and that is a Rome by Red Raven game so for listeners. We actually talked about Rome when it was being kick started back in April Around about that time and Rome is a smaller game name by Ryan Lockett of Red Raven Games in which you are collecting people To into your village or your community The way you're doing is each character in front of you has like a little tetris. Symbol on it. And when you activate that person you put those tetris pieces on land masses that are out in front of you that make up the game board when you fill up one of those Three by two grid is each card when Cardis ...

Happy New Year! In this episode Bruce and Josh kick off the year by catching you up on how the last one ended. Thats right, after they had their wives on in the last episode to talk about gaming in the holidays, Bruce and Josh now talk about the games they received for the holidays (SPOILER- It was a very humbling holiday season). There is also some very great news that Bruce shares with Josh about some recognition this podcast has received from the Game Manufacturer's Association (GAMA), which is the trade organization for the board game hobby. We apologize for softness Bruce's audio in the first half of the episode. The channel on the mixer went out and was quickly rectified by switching to a different channel. In these segments you may prefer to adjust your volume, although Bruce worked towards normalizing the audio in post. We thank you for understanding. To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game Impact Like the Facebook Page: Board Game Impact Instagram: @boardgameimpact Email: boardgameimpact@gmail.com Audio Transcription (Generated by AI)

Happy Holidays listeners!!! In this very merry episode Bruce and Josh are joined by their better halves (aka their wives Katelyn and Elizabeth) to talk about gaming in the holidays. Each shares their take on gamin experiences during the holidays with family and friends. From our families to yours we hope your travels are safe and that you get to spend some quality time with family and friends. Thanks for a great 2019! To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game Impact Like the Facebook Page: Board Game Impact Instagram: @boardgameimpact Email: boardgameimpact@gmail.com ----Audio Transcription (Generated by AI)---- In this episode of Board Game Impact Attack of something special for you and that is we have some special guest host joining us to help bring in the holidays and celebrate the New Year So enjoy this special episode board game impact. Welcome to board game impact listeners. We've got something very special for you today and that is because it is the holidays. It is the day before Christmas Christmas. Receive if you're listening to this on the date launches or if you're listening to this in the days after we just hope that your holidays have been wonderful and that you're ringing in the New Year with Board Games and all the fun thing so we hear a board game impact seek to combine our passions so we both work in Education Josh and I but we also want to give back to this amazing hobby. So what we're doing is we're breakdown different gaming the experiences so if that sounds like something interesting to you then make sure to hit that. Subscribe Button while the phone is still in your hand. This all being said we have something very very very different for us today. We are doubling in size. Like the grinch is heart and we have to special guests on the show. So Josh One or two you introduce yourself and then also introduced who you're with sure. Welcome listeners to another exciting episode. This is Josh With me Today is my wife. Elizabeth Elizabeth would you like to say. Hello and Bruce say understand you as someone very special with you as well. Who is that? I do so joining me on my side. Besides penny dog is on her lap for every recording. We also have my wife Caitlin. Hello everyone so yes. They're going to be joining us for today's episode because what is the holidays but time with family in time with friends and all those things wrapped up into one. So what we're going to be doing today. Is something a little bit different in that is. We're going to be sharing and not about unusually these heavier games or different game experiences. But we're actually going to be talking through and sharing out some different memories and those games that really means means something to us Josh how about you kind of take it away and lead us off and tell us where the inspiration for this came from because this was your idea. Yeah so the the idea for this really came from spending some time with family over the Thanksgiving holiday I have a five year old nephew. You who has for the last year or so just falling in love with Games in general So you think a lot of candy land and and Disney Games those types of things that may not be the most enjoyable for for folks to play but I I decided a while back to hold onto a couple of kids games that have come across my way and he is now five years old and at an age he can in start to pick some of those up so I brought him a birthday present which was memo are by stronghold Games And this is a a memory style game that is Kind of trying to remember where all the cards are placed onto onto the board. And he's just falling in love with it. We played three or four times while I was there for for Thanksgiving and apparently according to my sister-in-law has has forced them to play a at least a couple times a day ever since so You know I thought with that memory early in mind and and the idea of sharing this hobby with new folks who young...

In this episode the tables turn as Josh interviews Bruce on what Bruce's experience was like attending BGG.CON in Dallas, TX. Spoiler....it was amazing! This bring said Bruce shares about meeting Martin Wallace, playing a bunch of games, not doing so well but still having a lot of fun in a game of poker, what it was like to play some of the new hot games of 2019, and more. Listen in for this BGG.CON wrap up episode, and thanks to all who had a hand in putting on this outstanding experience. Specific Games Discussed: -Azul Summer Pavilion by Next Move Games -The Taverns of Tiefenthal by Schmidt Spiele -Play-testing 2 upcoming Martin Wallace games To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game Impact Like the Facebook Page: Board Game Impact Instagram: @boardgameimpact Email: boardgameimpact@gmail.com Audio Transcription (Generated by AI) . 0:07 - 05:04Today's episode of Board Game Impact. It's GonNa be a little different today because because Josh is going to interview me about my experience Attending Board Game Econ in Dallas where I got to play a ton of games and have a lot of really fun amazing experiences. It's a stay tuned to hear all about welcome. Welcome to board game impact. My Name is Bruce Brown and what we see here on board game impact is to share with you. Some amazing things going on in this board gaming industry through our lenses I work in education and so does my co host Josh. So he's going to join us here in a second but this is going to be a slightly different episode because I actually just went to. BG Cons. That's board Game Geek. Dot Com if you don't have a membership which is free on board Game Geek Dot Com. Go there and do that but then wire on your phone also quick. Subscribe here on this podcast. You can get all the cool information because what we do. Is We talk about the game. Experiences that we're having for your benefit and your gaming's benefit so that being said Board Game Big Dot com host to conventions a year Khan and be Spring. which happens in May so this is was the one in November? And is this going to be a little different in that. Josh has the fun opportunity because he did not get the join me this time. And he's going to be interviewing me on the show today so josh weren't you hop on and talk about your past experience with BG. So we know you're not coming in cold on tunnel this. We'll thank you for that introduction. Bruce Welcome listeners. as Bruce mentioned. I'm Josh I did not get a chance to go to. BG Con- This year. Very very very sad about that. It just fell at a time that was inconvenient inconvenient to me so for the first time in four years. Now I'd been the last three on. This is my first time not being able go since I actually met Bruce and quite quite disappointed by that. It's a great opportunity. I really enjoy it even more now that that I live outside of Texas because it does give me a chance usually to reconnect with that game group. Where I I met Bruce and and all of a a a really great group of friends that Helped not really spark but developed further my my neuroses with game collection and board game playing so I I love BG Con. It's one of my favorite weekends every year and Barry very sad to have missed it so josh since they're going to hear hearing a lot of details from me can you share with them. What kind of happens at? BG and like how that all works like what is going to like a lot of events because there's like different types of conventions out there sure BG kind. I think is A really really really great convention for folks who really just want to experience as many games as possible in a relatively short period of time I'm relatively small convention when you compare it to things like Gen con or origins or packs unplugged Some of these really big names in in board game conventions Relatively small in that respect. But you can pack so much fun into into a weekend with with BG d-conn The sho...

In this episode Bruce and Josh get back to the roots of what had them start the podcast in the first place, to share deep and meaningful content about board games. To do so, they focus in on a singular game for the episode and then breakdown all different aspects for the benefit of your gaming group. This deep dive goes into Tapestry by Stonemaier Games Watch It Played by Rodney Smith on "Over Powered" - https://youtu.be/VGnJA8h3I5E To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game Impact Like the Facebook Page: Board Game Impact Instagram: @boardgameimpact Email: boardgameimpact@gmail.com Transcription: (generated by AI) 00:08 - 05:03In today's episode of Board Game IMPAC Pack. Josh and I do a deep dive into tapestry by Stone Meyer Games. Welcome to board game impact. If you is your first time joining board game impact. I want to say welcome so what we seek to do. Here is to combine our love of Board Games and his hobby. That's given us so many great things as well as our passionate and background for full-time jobs. which is we both work in the field of education and we both apply licensed research lenses and like breakdown experiences for students and so we combine those shoes? That where. You're going to get the most out of this. My Name is Bruce Brown and I am of course joined by our co host. Host of this is Josh Isringhausen. Yeah so the two of us. I'm here in Texas Joshua's Josh's in Colorado and listeners. Have you listened to the last episode. We went through kind of this newer format which is actually not something new so if you've been a listener to the show for a while this is like back to our roots. This is where the show started. This is what the show started about. This is why Josh and I had a late night. Conversation the night of his wedding over a couple of drinks to you like let's get back to what we wanted to do with this which is like really talk about some games in depth. Don't get US wrong. We love also sharing what things were having and going on but we also WanNa go go deep on some games. House is GonNa work. Josh and I both picked a game. And so we've got one one game for tonight and then or today whenever you're listening to this and this is a deep dive so we're GONNA be breaking down this game into different areas going over the overview review so some stuff about the game the how to play interesting notes about the components talking about the artist talking about the designer the publisher what maybe as well as some of the table present stuff as well as even like what people are saying about this and pulling out some BG posts and stuff so this should be super meaningful. Then we'll wrap up with like our our personal closing thoughts so you won't get our personal closing thoughts until the end but we're going to lay out the picture so that way you can make up your own informed choices but then also see okay. How does that line up with both Josh and Bruce Josh would you mind doing the honours of sharing what game? We're going to do a deep dive of because this is a really controversial one but also like really exciting one right now bruce. This is a game that as as we record this as currently sitting at number three on the hotness on bg it is. I think been in the top ten tain on a hotness of BG for well since it was announced and this game is tapestry designed and by Jamie Steg Meyer of stone. Meyer Games listeners. Who have been around for a while will recognize thank Meyer and sandstone? Meyer Games as a frequent topic of discussion on this show as I speak for myself and I think bruises well Jamie is one one of my favorite designers of all times So very very excited to have a conversation about this game. It's been something something I've wanted to talk about for quite some time and it's a listeners. This is the main game. We're talking about so we may refer to some other games in this Because of course there are some comparisons and thin...

THEY ARE BACK!!! After a busy start to the academic year, moving, and one of them getting married Bruce and Josh are finally able to get back at recording. In this episode Bruce and Josh share what has been going on in their lives, talk about the heart to heart they had about the future of the show, share those exciting plans with you, and then get into some games they have been playing recently! Lots to be excited for with the future of the show, and thank you for your patience and understanding. Specific Games Discussed: -Lisboa by Vital Lacerda published by Eagle-Gryphon Games -Downforce by Rob Daviau, Justin D. Jacobson, & Wolfgang Kramer published by Restoration Games To learn more about Board Game Impact: To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game Impact Like the Facebook Page: Board Game Impact Instagram: @boardgameimpact Email: boardgameimpact@gmail.com Show Transcription: (Generated by AI) 00:05 - 05:01In today's episode Josh. And I are back from and long-awaited back. We're GONNA talk about some gains. You bring recently as well as some new format changes for the show and what's been going on in our lives and I think you're really going to be excited so do stay tuned for welcome. Come back for another episode of Board Game Impact if you are new to the show. Welcome to this podcast. Where myself and Josh Josh? Say Hi Hello. We walk through different games that were playing in our lives and different board game related stories and deep dives into games. So that way you can learn from us and learn from how these Games are impacting our lives and so we both work in education and have different higher degrees and what we're trying to do is combine that passion for this hobby. That's given us so much much. With our educations that way we can provide meaningful content to you and to give back to this amazing hobby so josh we need to catch everybody up. Its y'all it's been a little bit and that's okay like this is currently a passion project. This is something we're doing to help out the hobby connect with each each other but also to offer and help advance the hobby at the same time but that being said life happens sometimes and so. We're very excited to be back but Josh you've had two big things that have happened and then I'm going to talk about what's been going on for me but can you share. What your new facebook Book Relationship Status Absolutely Thank you and listeners. I I WANNA start off by just giving a warm thank thank you and welcome back to everyone. It's it has been a good long minute and I think I speak for Bruce as well as myself when I say we're very sorry and have missed recording and putting out content for you all very very very much however wight Bruce said things happen Wife happens and I In the beginning of August started a new job in Colorado. Oh I had been living in New Orleans so moved across the country for for a new job have been settling in there and and Now two weeks ago Got Married so I have had a lot going on for the last couple of months Between seen a moving starting a new job planning a wedding and having a wedding and then just breathing anything for five minutes which has been very very nice in a welcome reminder that life exists outside of stressful missile situations. But so so happy to be back in Bruce. I know you've had a lot going on as well. So you know as Bruce mentioned and we are both education August-september is always busy time for all of us And so that also so certainly plays into The lack of content but very happy to be back And very happy to be recording. and talking to you all. Aw Bruce what's been going on in your life it's it's been a while it has been awhile and so first of all. I had to fly to the northeast. Because you didn't get married in in Colorado nor New Orleans which are very close to Texas. He got married in the northeast which is actually cool. Because that's where I'm from actually got to s...