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Hi, it's Joe Slack here. Oliver was kind enough to let me write another guest blog and was excited to hear my thoughts as a game designer and indie publisher on why table presence matters for board games. So, let's get into it. Read the full article here: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2023/10/24/why-table-presence-matters-for-board-games-topic-discussion/ Useful Links Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/ Essen Spiel: https://www.spiel-essen.de/en/ Gen Con: https://www.gencon.com/ Origins Game Fair: https://www.originsgamefair.com/ Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul-Kar: https://restorationgames.com/fireball-island/ Everdell: https://www.tabletoptycoon.com/products/everdell-collectors-edition-3rd-edition Board Game Geek: https://boardgamegeek.com/ Mousetrap: https://products.hasbro.com/en-gb/product/mouse-trap-game/7EA54149-5056-9047-F5A2-33F4578345CC The Climbers: https://capstone-games.com/the-climbers Dark Tower: https://restorationgames.com/return-to-dark-tower/ Relics of Rajavihara: https://www.crazylikeabox.com/relics-of-rajavihara/ Mayan Curse crowdfunding page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/crazylikeabox/mayan-curse Intro Music: Bomber (Sting) by Riot (https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/) Music: "Chill Hip Hop" by AShamaluevMusic.Website: https://www.ashamaluevmusic.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tabletopgamesblog Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/TabletopGamesBlog Website: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/ (Photo by Alex Haney on Unsplash) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tabletopgamesblog/message
Joel, Sam, and Nick are back with another podcast, and along with the normal show content: News, Kickstarters, and played games! They are also taking a look back at their favorite games from 5 and 10 years ago, 2013 and 2018, plus their worst game from then, too. Enjoy! News: Stonemaiere news games drops Expeditions, Tapestry Fantasies & Futures, Forbidden Jungle, Dead Cells: The Rogue-Lite Board Game, Descent: Legends of the Dark - Betrayer's War, Deities, Istanbul: Choose and Write, Renegade Game Studios announced a deal Sid Sackson's Acquire, Chicken vs Hotdog, Kickstarter: Marvel United Multiverse season 3, Stonesage, Blueprints of mad king Lubwick, 4 small games from Board game tables Games Played: Stroganov, Wingspan Asia, Paperback, Sushi Go! list of games from the top 3 in 2013 and 2018: BioShock Infinite: The Siege of Columbia Bora Bora Ceylon Cerebria: The Card Game Cerebria: The Inside World, Coconuts Dice Hospital, Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul-Kar, Firefly: The Game, Francis Drake, Just One Kashgar: Merchants of the Silk Road Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, Petrichor, Steam Park, Room 25 Ways you can engage or contact the show Here is the link to our discord channel Devon Dice https://discord.gg/ma7Z4Jvv2z Find us on Twitter @DevonDiceUK, Facebook page, BGG Guild Find us on @DepressedMonk3y @The_BreweryTour @meeplescorner @njshaw2 Our web page www.devondice.co.uk Youtube - DevonDiceUK please like subscribe to our channel https://youtube.com/@DevonDice devondice2015@gmail.com
In Episode 104 we discuss our top ten favorite uses of toy factor in board games. We also discuss a poll on attending conventions. Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 00:42 Poll: Attending Conventions 07:12 Toy Factor in Games 11:01 Chris #10 - Mechanica 14:53 Adam #10 - Baseball Highlights 2045 17:47 Tim #10 - Splendor 19:36 Chris #9 - Windward 21:42 Adam #9 - Pax Pamir 2nd Edition 23:40 Tim #9 - Lords of Xidit 26:50 Chris #8 - Scythe 30:59 Adam #8 - Xia: Legends of a Drift System 32:47 Tim #8 - Pan Am 34:39 Chris #7 - Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul-Kar 38:04 Adam #7 - Skyrise 41:02 Tim #7 - Tapestry 43:44 Chris #6 - Nemesis 47:28 Adam #6 - Wonderland's War 49:36 Tim #6 - The Great Wall 51:01 Chris #5 - Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon 53:47 Adam #5 - Anachrony 56:03 Tim #5 - Tekhenu: Obelisk of the Sun 58:07 Chris #4 - Blood Rage 1:01:35 Adam #4 - Star Wars: Rebellion 1:03:41 Tim #4 - Everdell 1:06:20 Chris #3 - Fossilis 1:10:14 Adam #3 - Voidfall 1:12:25 Tim #3 - Cthulhu: Death May Die 1:15:25 Chris #2 - Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar 1:18:43 Adam #2 - Ankh: Gods of Egypt 1:21:33 Tim #2 - Camel Up (2nd Edition) 1:24:02 Chris #1 - Return to Dark Tower 1:27:14 Adam #1 - Eclipse: 2nd Dawn for the Galaxy 1:29:38 Tim #1 - Dwellings of Eldervale 1:34:23 Listener Shoutout
This years challenge of playing every board game we own in 2021. This episode covers over 6 board games we played. The board games we will be talking about in this podcast are: •Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul-Kar•Forbidden Desert•Nuns on the Run•Star Wars Outer Rim•Wasteland Express Delivery Service•Ducks In TowDuring our I Love Digital Plays we talked about.•Small WorldS O C I A L M E D I A➡️Instagram: ( https://www.instagram.com/meepleknights )➡️FaceBook Page: ( https://www.facebook.com/meepleknights )➡️FaceBook Group: ( https://www.facebook.com/groups/meepleknights )➡️Discord: ( https://discord.gg/TUR3g3Z )C O N T A C T U S
Part two of the episode discussing favorite themes and games that may or may not align with that theme. Treasure Hunting Fortune and Glory Karuba Artifacts Inc. Lost Ruins of Arnak Fireball Island Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul-Kar Tobago The Adventurers: The Temple of Chac The Adventurers: Pyramid of Horus Thebes Luxor Deckscape: The Mystery of Eldorado Heists Burgle Bros Burgle Bros 2 Deckscape: Heist in Venice Caper The Mansky Caper Cash and Guns? Steampunk Spyrium Steampunk Rally Mission Red Planet Scythe City of Gears Quicksilver/Kings of Air and Steam/Aether Captains @overthehillier @ericbuscemi @punchboardmedia
Recorded in War Room Studios - Albuquerque, NM : 4/28/20 This episode is brought to you by PowerMeeps.com, Academy Games and Van Ryder Games. In episode 125 of The Brawling Brothers, Josh and Brandon discuss how they are coping with social distancing and answer a new favorite question: Favorite Food, Favorite Show and Favorite Game during quarantine. Josh flashes back to the day of yesteryear and discusses how Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul Kar stacks up against the original Fireball Island. Alubari, Sagrada Digital and ULTIMATE Tic-Tac-Toe make up majority of the board game discussion in this episode, but if you only catch a single segment you shouldn't miss the SPOILER FREE King's Dilemma Review! Kickstarter continues to be hot, despite the global crisis - the Bros highlight Lords of Vegas 10th Anniversary Edition, Canvas and Clinic: COVID19 Edition! Episode 125 is wrapped up with a intimate interview with Evan Derrick of Van Ryder Games, who tells us all about their newest kickstarter project, Final Girl. Episode Timeline: 0:00:00 - Intro / Banter 0:03:50 - The Brawling Brothers Deal with Social Distancing 0:26:50 - TNT - THEN : Featuring Fireball Island 0:44:10 - TNT - NOW: Featuring King's Dilemma Review 1:53:52 - TNT - TOMORROW : Featuring Lords of Vegas 2:08:05 - Feature Segment -- Evan Derrick with Van Ryder Games : Final Girl Board Game Timestamps: Alubari : A Nice Cup of Tea - 0:44:10 Canvas - 1:59:40 Clinic : COVID19 Edition - 2:02:27 Final Girl - 2:08:05 Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul Kar - 0:26:50 Lords or Vegas : 10th Anniversary - 1:53:52 Sagrada (Digital) - 0:58:28 The King's Dilemma Review - 1:10:46 Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe - 1:06:30
This episodes the Dukes ... ... Discuss recent plays including Chocolate Factory, Ancient Civilization of the Inner Sea and Bloom Town (6:36); ... Give you their Top 6 Games with Staying Power from 2015 and beyond (236:32); and ... Look back at their review of Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul-Kar in their Dukes' Double-Take (1:06:46). Click here to Twitter: @dukesofdice Facebook: /dukesofdice Dukes of Dice YouTube ChannelSubscribe on iTunes Thanks to our awesome sponsors - please give them a visit Arcane Wonders Game Toppers
Boards A-Little, the podcast where an expert gamer with discerning tastes will be sitting down and discussing games…with his dad. We focus on games that are great for both kids and adults to play together. In Episode 6, we review the dexterity adventure game, Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul-Kar and the expansions Crouching Tiger Hidden Bees and Spider Springs.
Names are powerful. The Spiel des Jahres means "game of the year" simpliciter, but for years we know that the juries have been casting a narrower and narrower net of what games thay would consider. It has become more of a specialized imprint, which is fine--but it's strange that the name still inspires such cachet. Anything with rules in excess of 3 or so pages seems now to be firmly beyond the pale as far as the SdJ is concerned. Ah, well, times change, and we are prone to fits of curmudgeonly behavior. We do at least give our rundown of the 3 nominated games.AYURIS: The City of Kings 1m02s (Frank West, The City of Games, 2018)Games Played Last Week: -Trick Shot 2m35s (Nikita Krylov &Artyom Nichipurov, Wolff Designa, 2019)-LAMA aka Wrath of the Appliances: Rise of the Killer Kameras 4m50s (Reiner Knizia, AMIGO, 2019)-Just One 8m01s (Ludovic Roudy & Bruno Sautter, Repos Productions, 2018)-Red Alert: Space Fleet Warfare 10m03s (Richard Borg, PSC Games, 2019)-Fireball Island: The Curse of Vol-Kar 13m51s (Rob Daviau, JR Honeycutt, Justin D. Jacobson, Chuck Kennedy, & Bruce Lund, Restoration Games, 2018)-Hansa Teutonica 15m38s (Andreas Steding, Z-Man Games, 2010)-SpaceCorp 17m03s (John H. Butterfield, GMT Games, 2018)-Rayguns and Rocketships 19m33s (Scott Rogers, IDW Games, 2017)News (and why it doesn't matter):-The tangled webs Kickstarter weaves (and then pulls) 26m23s(Correction: During this segment we mistakenly conflated Travis Worthington of Indie Boards and Cards and Travis R. Chance of Kolossal Games. They have both had projects canceled by Kickstarter. We apologize for the error.)-Endeavor: Age of Expansion Expansion 30m30s-Pandemic Targets real-time 31m51sTopic: How Big a Collection? 33m00s
Names are powerful. The Spiel des Jahres means "game of the year" simpliciter, but for years we know that the juries have been casting a narrower and narrower net of what games thay would consider. It has become more of a specialized imprint, which is fine--but it's strange that the name still inspires such cachet. Anything with rules in excess of 3 or so pages seems now to be firmly beyond the pale as far as the SdJ is concerned. Ah, well, times change, and we are prone to fits of curmudgeonly behavior. We do at least give our rundown of the 3 nominated games.AYURIS: The City of Kings 1m02s (Frank West, The City of Games, 2018)Games Played Last Week: -Trick Shot 2m35s (Nikita Krylov &Artyom Nichipurov, Wolff Designa, 2019)-LAMA aka Wrath of the Appliances: Rise of the Killer Kameras 4m50s (Reiner Knizia, AMIGO, 2019)-Just One 8m01s (Ludovic Roudy & Bruno Sautter, Repos Productions, 2018)-Red Alert: Space Fleet Warfare 10m03s (Richard Borg, PSC Games, 2019)-Fireball Island: The Curse of Vol-Kar 13m51s (Rob Daviau, JR Honeycutt, Justin D. Jacobson, Chuck Kennedy, & Bruce Lund, Restoration Games, 2018)-Hansa Teutonica 15m38s (Andreas Steding, Z-Man Games, 2010)-SpaceCorp 17m03s (John H. Butterfield, GMT Games, 2018)-Rayguns and Rocketships 19m33s (Scott Rogers, IDW Games, 2017)News (and why it doesn't matter):-The tangled webs Kickstarter weaves (and then pulls) 26m23s(Correction: During this segment we mistakenly conflated Travis Worthington of Indie Boards and Cards and Travis R. Chance of Kolossal Games. They have both had projects canceled by Kickstarter. We apologize for the error.)-Endeavor: Age of Expansion Expansion 30m30s-Pandemic Targets real-time 31m51sTopic: How Big a Collection? 33m00s
Letters! You love writing them, and we love reading them! This week, we look at portable and licensed games, why reviewers love social games, and give advice for your first board game convention. Before we break out the letter opener, we also talk about Fool!, Aerion, and Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul-Kar. 01:03 - Fool! 05:38 - Aerion 13:06 - Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul-Kar 22:24 - Listener Questions 22:48 - Best portable games? 23:29 - Oink Games 23:54 - Sprawlopolis 24:07 - SHH 25:01 - No Thanks! 25:10 - Skull 25:51 - Illusion 26:22 - Are reviewers biased towards more social games? 28:48 - Blood on the Clocktower 32:15 - Cosmic Encounter 33:08 - Convention tips? 34:52 - Nyctophobia 37:47 - Best licensed game? 38:02 - Dune 38:22 - XCOM: The Board Game 38:34 - The Thing: Infection at Outpost 31 39:01 - Play new games or replay old ones? 39:37 - Why does Neilan have the best voice? 41:05 - ?!?!
This week on Three Dicks' Picks, we talk about Donnie Darko and ask ourselves if it still holds up and whether it was ever good in the first place. We also talk about the album Messengers by August Burns Red, and Greg and Zain battle it out as they talk about screaming vocals and whether they add anything to metal. Finally, we talk about the recently revived board game Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul-Kar. At the end of every episode, we rate each pick as well as reveal our picks for our next episode - so you can watch, listen, and join in on the next episode's discussion along with us! Movie — 24:40 – Donnie Darko Music — 1:04:02 – Messengers by August Burns Red More — 1:39:01 – Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul-Kar board game
With Ronan banished, Natalie once again steps into the Pit to discuss three family game and three more involved games (and Sean's magnificent cooking). Discussed today are Fireball Island: The Curse of Vulkar, My Little Scythe, Jungle Race, The Grimm Forest, Legendary Encounters: X-Files and Mr. Cabbagehead's Garden. We also hear from the big man himself, James. The Game Pit is a proud member of the Dice Tower Network. For Pit Stop videos on a wide variety of games, check out our YouTube channel.
In this episode we travel to Fireball Island for a discussion about the Kickstarter remake of this 1986 Restoration Games classic. Is this updated version a faithful update, or should you steer clear of this island? Find out all about Fireball Island : The Curse of Val Kar in this episode.
What I’m Playing Now1) Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul-Kar2) Endeavor: Age of SailWhat I WANT to Play Now!1) Folklore the Affliction2) Keyforge: Call of the Archons
Welcome to Game State episode #18! Game State is the quintessential podcast for all things tabletop featuring lifelong enthusiast and industry insiders. In this episode, the hosts discuss and or review: Keyforge sells 500 copies within minutes of its release Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul-Kar (review) Bob Ross Happy Little Accidents (review) http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/gamestatepodcast/gamestate18.mp3
Sometimes you find yourself on an island, beset by exploding volcanoes, rolling boulders, venomous snakes, swarms of bees, and people in tiger costumes jumping at you seemingly from nowhere. If you want all of those things to happen at once, then you should really be playing Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul-Kar. If you're not sure that those things are your jam, then check out this week's episode of the Dog and Thimble podcast where we talk all about the game, its expansions, and somehow also find time for a discussion of Street Fighter, Ultimate Frisbee, and The Girl From Ipanema.
Ambie and Crystal discuss Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game and Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul-Kar. We then talk about comfort games, and Crystal goes over the origins of the word 'familiar.' Announcements: 0:45 Recent Games: 3:06 Comfort Games: 14:05 Board Game Etymology - 'Familiar': 25:01 Outro: 26:24 Bloopers: 27:37 Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/223321/detective-modern-crime-board-game Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul-Kar: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/233020/fireball-island-curse-vul-kar
This week on Limited Play Time we’re taking a closer look at Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul-Kar, the new release from Restoration Games! Is it just as hot and spicy as the original? The burn marks speak volumes!
What I’m Playing Now1)Western Legends2)Everdell3)Fantasy RealmsWhat I WANT to Play Now!1)Cloudspire2)Sword & Sorcery: Ancient Chronicles3)Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul-Kar
CONTENIDO - 00:23 Presentación - 03:30 “Aquí te pillo, aquí temazo” - GenCon 2018 06:30 Reef 07:50 Coimbra 09:03 Moa 10:46 Great Western Trails: Rails to the North 11:35 Yellow & Yangtze 12:36 Blue Lagoon 13:16 Chronicles of Crime 15:26 Founders of Gloomhaven 16:38 Sports Dice: Football 17:30 Endeavor: Age of Sail 19:03 Piepmatz 20:30 Root 22:20 Holding On: The Troubled Life of Billy Kerr 25:20 The Rise of Queensdale 28:00 Race of the New Found Land 29:30 Newton 30:40 Franchise 32:38 Ticket to Ride New York 33:40 A Song of Ice & Fire: Tabletop Miniatures Game 36:25 Kick-Ass: The Board Game 37:31 Too Many Bones: Undertow 38:52 Evil High Priest 39:58 Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul-Kar 41:46 Symphony No.9 44:28 Arkham Horror 3rd Edition 45:25 Legendary Encounters: The X-Files Deck Building Game - 48:30 "Una taza de café marciano" - 01:01:10 “Juega o Muere” 01:11:00 Die Quacksalber von Quedlinburg 01:14:30 Caylus 01:18:20 It Happens... 01:22:30 Altiplano 01:26:50 Shit Happens 01:30:38 Whistle Stop 01:33:56 Vita Mors - 01:37:20 "Así Si y Así No" - 01:48:00 - Despedida y cierre Licencias musicales: 1. S Strong - Whitestick by S Strong https://soundcloud.com/s_strong Creative Commons - Attribution 3.0 Unported - CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/mFz_r_CNB08 2. Funny Song by BENSOUND https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music Creative Commons - Attribution 3.0 Unported - CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/9mHpr8lhjZE 3. DJ Quads - A Coffee To Go Song/Free Download - https://youtu.be/MEhGXw-JuY4 Follow DJ Quads - http://smarturl.it/dj-quads 4. Soul (Vlog Music) by Dj Quads https://soundcloud.com/aka-dj-quads Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/m0UBmJLv208
CONTENIDO - 00:23 Presentación - 03:30 “Aquí te pillo, aquí temazo” - GenCon 2018 06:30 Reef 07:50 Coimbra 09:03 Moa 10:46 Great Western Trails: Rails to the North 11:35 Yellow & Yangtze 12:36 Blue Lagoon 13:16 Chronicles of Crime 15:26 Founders of Gloomhaven 16:38 Sports Dice: Football 17:30 Endeavor: Age of Sail 19:03 Piepmatz 20:30 Root 22:20 Holding On: The Troubled Life of Billy Kerr 25:20 The Rise of Queensdale 28:00 Race of the New Found Land 29:30 Newton 30:40 Franchise 32:38 Ticket to Ride New York 33:40 A Song of Ice & Fire: Tabletop Miniatures Game 36:25 Kick-Ass: The Board Game 37:31 Too Many Bones: Undertow 38:52 Evil High Priest 39:58 Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul-Kar 41:46 Symphony No.9 44:28 Arkham Horror 3rd Edition 45:25 Legendary Encounters: The X-Files Deck Building Game - 48:30 "Una taza de café marciano" - 01:01:10 “Juega o Muere” 01:11:00 Die Quacksalber von Quedlinburg 01:14:30 Caylus 01:18:20 It Happens... 01:22:30 Altiplano 01:26:50 Shit Happens 01:30:38 Whistle Stop 01:33:56 Vita Mors - 01:37:20 "Así Si y Así No" - 01:48:00 - Despedida y cierre Licencias musicales: 1. S Strong - Whitestick by S Strong https://soundcloud.com/s_strong Creative Commons - Attribution 3.0 Unported - CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/mFz_r_CNB08 2. Funny Song by BENSOUND https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music Creative Commons - Attribution 3.0 Unported - CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/9mHpr8lhjZE 3. DJ Quads - A Coffee To Go Song/Free Download - https://youtu.be/MEhGXw-JuY4 Follow DJ Quads - http://smarturl.it/dj-quads 4. Soul (Vlog Music) by Dj Quads https://soundcloud.com/aka-dj-quads Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/m0UBmJLv208
Zach and Sean discuss recent plays of Outburst from Hasbro, The Mcdonald's Game from Milton Bradley, Racko, and Fortress from Stronghold Games. We then discuss our recent experience with the prototype for the upcoming FireBall Island: The Curse of Vulkar from Restoration Games.
This episode the Dukes ... ... Share their recent plays of: 51st State (Master Set) Matryoshka Roll Player w/ Monsters & Minions Expansion Steamrollers (3:12) ... Discuss the latest news including: Games Workshop new Lord of the Rings board game: The Quest to Mount Doom The Boarders Tabletop Game Studio Kickstarter scandal (21:49) An interview with Rob Daviau from Restoration Games about the hottest ne Kickstarter project: Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul-Kar (34:35) ... Review Eggertspiele's Heaven & Ale (51:22) ... Look back at their reviews of the A Feast For Odin and Jump Drive in their Dukes' Double Take (1:29:00), and ... Discuss the board game related skills you can use to pad your resume! (1:37:57). Click here to Twitter: @dukesofdice Facebook: /dukesofdice Dukes of Dice YouTube ChannelSubscribe on iTunes Thanks to our awesome sponsors - please give them a visit Tasty Minstrel Games Arcane Wonders Game Toppers
http://traffic.libsyn.com/bluepegpinkpeg/BPPPDaviauFireball_mixdown.output.mp3 During this Designer Deep Dive, we speak with Rob Daviau (designer of Pandemic Legacy, S1 & S2, Betrayal at House on the Hill, and many more) about his upcoming title by Restoration Games, Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul-Kar. Fireball Island is a re-implementation of the late 80s mass market title of the same […]