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Noah Adelman is the founder of GameTrayz, the industry leader in custom board game inserts. Their inserts are featured in popular games such as The Grimm Forest, Parks, Wingspan, Vindication, My Little Scythe - to name a few. They have recently launched an open sandbox game on Kickstarter called Forsaken. Check it out: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gametrayz/forsaken-5 (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gametrayz/forsaken-5) FOLLOW US ON: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/boardgamebinge Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/boardgamebingepodcast Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/boardgamebinge Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tinrobotgames WHERE TO FIND OUR PODCAST: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5RJbdkguebb3MSLAatZr7r iHeart Radio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-board-game-binge-72500104/ Tune In: https://tunein.com/embed/player/p1344218/ Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5jYXB0aXZhdGUuZm0vYm9hcmRnYW1lYmluZ2U= Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/board-game-binge/id1522623033 Visit Our Websites: Board Game Binge: https://boardgamebinge.com/ Tin Robot Games: https://tinrobotgames.com Elixir Board Games: https://www.elixirboardgames.com/our-games (https://www.elixirboardgames.com/our-games)
Join Jack and Lottie as they start the second day of their Dog Park Kickstarter campaign. In the first day Dog Park FUNDED, was selected as a Kickstarter Project We Love, surpassed £50,000 smashing a GameTrayz stretch goal along the way, and broke into The Hotness on Board Game Geek. Lottie and Jack relive the first day and talk about the process of designing and publishing the game.Dog Park is available to back now: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/birdwoodgames/dog-park-board-game?ref=4rgk9v
This episode, GenCon is on, White Wizard gets wise, Lucky Duck has ducklings, and we all escape from Middle Earth. TOP STORIES: GenCon 2021 is a go. France's As d'Or Awards announced. R&D Games teases new titles in the Key series. "Founders of Teotihuacan" announced. White Wizard Games renames to Wise Wizard. Asmodee to distribute ThunderGryph, Fantasia, and Tabletop Tycoon Games. Lucky Duck partners with GameTrayz and launches Lucky Duck Kids. Z-Man cancels Euro Classics line. "Villagers: Shifting Seasons" announced. Card game "TEN" coming from "Point Salad" designers. Celebrate 5 years of escapes with "EXIT: Shadow over Middle Earth" and "EXIT: Return to the Abandoned Cabin." GAMA officer, publisher, and retailer Brian Dalrymple passes. KICKSTARTER: Everdell: Newleaf, Mistwood, and the Complete Collection Caper: Europe Pagan: Fate of Roanoke So, You've Been Eaten Valeria: Card Kingdoms - Darksworn Eternal Palace Catacombs & Castles 2E + Catacombs Black Box Expansion Three Sisters NEW & UPCOMING RELEASES: Red Rising from Stonemaier Games War Chest: Siege from AEG Steampunk Rally Fusion from Roxley Games Forgotten Waters: Kraken's Eye from Plaid Hat Games CONNECT: Follow our curated Twitter newsfeed @DiceTowerNow. Dig in with Corey at DiceTowerDish.com. Have a look-see at Barry’s wares at BrightBearLaser.com. Check out the Tabletop Game Talk podcast with Chris and Kitty.
Emma, Gil, and Scott discuss the idea of complexity in a board game. We explore 6 types of complexity, and discuss their effects on the games we play and design. SHOW NOTES 0m51s: Pete Seeger was an American folk singer, known for songs like "If I Had a Hammer," "Turn, Turn, Turn," and "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" 2m04s: Our list of complexities: Spatial complexity Arithmetical complexity Zone complexity Planning complexity Rules/mechanism complexity Component complexity 2m45s: Barenpark, New York Zoo 3m44s: The SAT is a standardized test in the United States that is a major factor in a college's admission of a prospective student. 4m16s: Number 9 4m32s: Bosk 5m31s: Photosynthesis 6m30s: Treasure Island, Escape from the Aliens in Outer Space, Specter Ops, Tigris & Euphrates 7m14s: Checking the rules, an Internal Conflict in Tigris & Euphrates happens when a Leader is moved to a Kingdom where there is already a Leader of the same color belonging to another player. 8m00s: Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game. Check out Scott's Biography of a Board Game on the Flight Path family of games, including X-Wing and Wings of War. 8m25s: The Warhammer family of games is absolutely massive. The flagship game, Warhammer 40,000, is in its 9th edition. 10m18s: The Funkoverse Strategy Game. We chatted with Chris Rowlands, one of its designers, in Ludology 224: Putting the Fun in Funko. 11m01s: Heroclix, Heroscape 13m23s: Set 15m17s: Power Grid, Russian Railroads, and Gil's own The Networks 16m26s: The term "Goumbaud's Law" was coined by Jesse Schell in his book The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses. 21m12s: Sticheln (the pronunciation of which Gil has completely butchered) was recently re-released by Capstone Games as Stick 'Em. Smartphone Inc. 22m46s: Sushi Go, Disney: The Haunted Mansion – Call of the Spirits Game 25m38s: Search for Planet X, Zendo (Kory Heath's design diary for Zendo remains a fantastic look at how hard it is to design a seemingly simple game.) 26m40s: Mastermind 28m12s: Here's a description of the XYZ Wing solve technique for Sudoku. 28m33s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg21M2zwG9Q (explicit language warning) 28m59s: Hey, That's My Fish, graph theory, and the Traveling Salesman problem. 29m33s: Scott first proposed the 6 Zones of Play in Ludology 209 - The 6 Zones of Play. 32m28s: Formula D 33m27s: Seafall, the Betrayal family of games. 41m21s: Ra 43m53s: A Feast for Odin 44m22s: A Few Acres of Snow 46m45s: Nielsen Media Research is best known for its Nielsen TV ratings, that offer the TV industry in the United States metrics into the number of viewers a TV show enjoys. 48m06s: Advanced Squad Leader, The Campaign for North Africa 50m13s: We discussed the futility of 1:1 models with Volko Ruhnke in Ludology 178 - COIN Operated. Gil also brings up the "Map-territory relation" problem. 50m29s: Food Chain Magnate, Feudum, Cloudspire, Kanban 54m48s: Two designers who work in complex games: Vital Lacerda and Dávid Turczi. You can hear our chat with Dávid about complex games in Ludology 234 - Playing with Time. 55m34s: Brass: Lancashire 57m27s: Fresco 1h00m20s: Gil discussed his doomed auction mechanism most recently in Ludology 235 - Rise to the Challenge. 1h01m45s: Samurai, Steel Driver, For Sale. Here's Samurai's scoring system: If one player has the most figures of 2 or 3 of the types of figures, they win. If no one has won in the previous step, only players who have the most of a single type of figure can win. All other players are eliminated. The remaining players set aside the figures they have of which they have the most of a certain type. The player with the most remaining figures wins. In case of a tie, the tied players re-collect all their figures and count their total number of figures. Highest total wins, all remaining ties are shared. 1h02m30s: Nomic, Fluxx 1h09m23s: Descent: Journeys in the Dark 1h10m45s: Geoff and Gil discussed "tight coupling" in Ludology 172 - Odd Coupling. 1h12m04s: Carcassonne (the type Gil was thinking of is Monk) 1h13m25s: The Betrayal family of games (again) 1h14m46s: GameTrayz 1h16m20s: Mike Selinker uttered this now-legendary quote in Ludology 189 - The Missing Selinker. 1h17m47s: Gil's announcements: BGG@Home, Weird Stories pregen settings, High Rise pre-orders opening soon, Rival Networks 1h20m02s: Battling Tops, and the legendary BGG Battling Tops tournament. 1h20m22s: Tabletopia 1h20m44s: Emma, Gil, and Scott recorded Ludology 215 - Table Topics live at BGG.CON 2019. 1h21m06s: Scott's announcements: Treats, Xeno Command, Comic Book Crisis, The Pitch Project. 1h24m06s: Emma's announcements: Game Maker's Guild panel, Dutch and Hungarian versions of Abandon All Artichokes. 1h25m26s: Our contact info: Emma (Twitter, Instagram, Web), Gil (Twitter, Facebook, Web), Scott (Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook)
Les gars ont de la Josette cette semaine!En première partie le Professeur nous raconte ses périples ludiques, ainsi qu'un compte rendu des prix Lys. Patrice étant trop pris dans la livraison de colis, nous parle d'inserts. Jules nous fait découvrir un coup de coeur, Paranormal Détectives et Planet Kickstarter nous parle de la dernière nouveauté pour le jeu Yggdrasil.En deuxième partie les gars se font un martini « shaken not stirred » avant de s'affronter dans un jeu mortel du chat et de la souris.
2 player game showdown! This episode starts out with Adrian complaining about the heat. Then, the hosts begin their weekly gameplay recap, including a Terraforming Mars Game with Jeff’s new GameTrayz, a “lovely” game of Werewolf, and a new game, Fury of Dracula. In the kickstarter section, anew abstract game called “Tao Long” is ogled at and the creators of Myth give it another try with “Myth: Dark Frontier.” In the News section, Bohanza’s 20th anniversary and a Dead of Winter version of Flick ‘Em Up, amongst other things, are discussed. The hosts decide to try something different this week and review 3 different games with something in common. This time it is in the realm of 2 player abstract games: Santorini, Patchwork, and Druids. They spend some time talking about the pros and cons of each before putting them together to find out which is the best(?). Another email closes out the show. 00:00:32 Banter! Featuring: Weather, Terraforming Mars, RoboRally, Sheriff of Nottingham, Hanabi, 7 Wonders Duel, Santorini, Splendor, Ultimate Werewolf and Fury of Dracula! 00:23:16 News and Kickstarter Round-Up! 00:26:18 Tao Long 00:29:00 Myth: Dark Frontier 00:32:44 Bonanaza 20th Anniversary Edition 00:33:55 Khan of Khans 00:35:17 Flick 'Em Up: Dead of Winter 00:37:23 Dominion (Back) Online 00:40:09 Charterstone 00:42:37 MHGG Review Trifecta - Santorini, Patchwork, and Druids 00:44:04 Santorini Review 00:59:21 Patchwork Review 01:10:51 Druids Review 01:25:20 MHGG Discuss - 2 Player Abstract Games 01:38:32 Emails, Contact and Episode Wrap-Up
Inside the Box In this episode, we talk about these box insert topics: - Cardboard Inserts - Size of Box - Number of Wells - Gametrayz and Other Plastic Inserts - Broken Token Wood Inserts and Boxes - Cost Analysis of Manufacturing vs. After-Market - Bags of Bags - Game Storage Recommendations in Rules? - 13 oz. Golden Rule Video version: https://youtu.be/V3K_bdnFZ1Q
Jeremy geeks out on his love of all things box, while Richard explores the dynamics of sleeved vs. unsleeved tabletop game box design and Brian explains his trials and tribulations designing boxes for display and functionality. Topics: Box Quality Box Design Box Sizes Custom Game Trays Video/YouTube: http://youtu.be/kcgWl9zmInE
We turn to yet another discussion of important issues in boardgaming, this time WE INTERRUPT YOUR SILLY EPISODE NOTES FOR A SERIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTIt is fat bear week! The possibility of a US federal government shutdown has been averted, and thus the voting public (even foreigners, we won't tell) may vote on which lorge bois of the ursine variety shall take the prize! For those uninitiated, the US National Park Service runs a bracketed competition to determine the preferred corpulent bear. Note: none of these bears are anthropomorphic, nor have any been inadvisably given projectile weapons.01:20 AYURIS: Ankh: Gods of Egypt (Eric M. Lang, CMON, 2021)Games Played Last Week:03:45 -My Island (Reiner Knizia, KOSMOS, 2023)08:23 -3 Ring Circus (Remo Conzadori and Fabio Lopiano, Devir, 2023)14:36 -Uprising: Curse of the First Age Expansion (Cornelius Cremin, Pawel Mazur, and Dirk Sommer, Nemesis.Games, 2023)16:38 -Sky Team (Luc Rémond, Le Scorpion Masqué, 2023)24:21 -Green Team Wins (Nathan Thornton, 25th Century Games, 2022)28:42 -Faeries & Magical Creatures (Glenn Drover, Foridden Games, 2023)34:22 -Aquatica: Cold Waters (Ivan Tuzovsky, Arcane Wonders, 2020)News (and why it doesn't matter):38:08 GameTrayz making a new folding table39:49 Renegade reprinting Hasbro designs: Nexus Ops, Vegas Showdown, Risk: 2210 and Risk Godstorm40:53 Sci-Fi Undaunted! Undaunted 2200: Callisto42:31 Consider supporting us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/svwag43:25 Topic: Games for Mixed Company Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy