Podcasts about this guilty land

Erica and Gil are delighted to welcome designer Amabel Holland of Hollandspiele, known for making games with challenging themes using an unconventional publishing model.  SHOW NOTES 0m58s: Supply Lines of the American Revolution, Table Battles, Irish Gauge, This Guilty Land, Nicea, The Vote. 7m08s: Amabel is talking about her forthcoming game Eyelet. 15m02s: This is Geoff's game Versailles 1919, co-designed with Mark Herman. 17m28s: Benedict Arnold 18m34s: The Shackleton Expedition 21m16s: The Vote 28m22s: Nicea 31m38s: Irish Gauge, Northern Pacific, Iberian Gauge 32m29s: Winsome, Rio Grande 34m23s: Chicago Express 34m55s: Meltwater, An Infamous Traffic 36m11s: RIBBIT: The Jump, Move, and Block Game, Table Battles 38m51s: New Mill 43m45s: Westphalia 48m18s: Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae 49m52s: Cheapass Games 53m46s: Tobacco misinformation campaign 54m37s: Gil was thinking of Brandolini's Law, aka the BS Asymmetry Principle. 57m55s: Horse & Musket 59m03s: Deinocheirus, Pterodactyl, Therizinosaurus

Game designer and publisher Amabel Holland joins us to talk about some of her games, how she is able to design so many games, what she is working on now (August 2020), and what she values in game design and production. We also talk about her game company that she owns with her wife Mary - Hollandspiele. Games we talk about in this episode:Irish Gauge, Iberian Gauge, This Guilty Land, The Field of the Cloth of Gold, Dinosaur Table Battles, Catan, Westphalia, Supply Lines of the American Revolution, Martian Rails, Iron Dragon, Caylus, El Grande, Tigris and Euphrates, Shadows in the Weald, High Speed Hover Tank, and Escape from Hades. 

Gil and Sen welcome Calvin Wong Tze Loon 黃子倫 to the show to discuss narrative in games. How can we improve a game's narrative through its mechanisms, its components, and even its box size? SHOW NOTES 0m46s: Calvin played P.T. Goh in the film Crazy Rich Asians. Also, info on Twilight Imperium's expansion Prophecy of Kings that Calvin did some writing for, and forthcoming RPG Embers of the Imperium. 3m16s: "Mayfair" in UK-based editions of Monopoly is equivalent to "Boardwalk" in US-based editions of the game.  7m39s: Android: Netrunner 10m18s: The fan organization NISEI, currently supporting organized Netrunner play, releasing new cards, and keeping the game alive. 11m28s: Here's what Gil wrote about flavor text on Twitter. 14m44s: Pasaraya Supermarket Manager. Gil also regrets not bringing up diegesis in games (making the components, graphic design, and form of a game match its narrative) like in Inhuman Conditions. 19m22s: The Tiny Epic series of games. 23m31s: Gil accidentally gave out the name of the game series with this puzzle, so we bleeped it out! 26m04s: Crisis 28m13s: Ryan and Geoff discussed the magic circle in Ludology 79. 28m22s: The story game Fiasco, and the strategy game Barrage. 32m47s: Memoir '44 35m26s: Millennium Blades, Falsche FuFFziger, Descent: Legends of the Dark 41m17s: Here's the essay Crimes Against Mimesis. Also, here's Gil's talk on merging theme and mechanism. 49m45s: The Rick Riordan Presents line of books. The book Gil mentioned is Sal and Gabi Break the Universe, by Carlos Hernandez.  53m40s: More info about the Prison Architect: Cardboard County Penitentiary board game. 55m32s: An Infamous Traffic 1h00m51s: Hollandspiele, This Guilty Land 1h02m07s: Hub Games 1h04m12s: The Typing of the Dead, Unspeakable Words 1h07m51s: Half-Life Alyx 1h09m51s: The wonderful Crystal Dax! 1h11m31s: Calvin's Twitter.

Today on the Space-Biff! Space-Cast!, Dan is joined by Tom Russell, who answers questions about his controversial title This Guilty Land, discusses research and responsibility in crafting board games, and answers the two most difficult questions of them all: what is your favorite dinosaur, and what is art?

Even if the price is right, it might not be right for you. We all have different thresholds where a board game we're interested in crosses from, "maybe I'll wait for a sale" into "sure why not" territory, but where is that magical line? Has what we're willing to pay for games changed over time? Before we get sticker shock, we talk about Twin Tin Bots, Ticket to Ride: New York, Whale Riders, and Dead Reckoning. 02:20 - Twin Tin Bots 07:37 - Ticket to Ride: New York 14:36 - Whale Riders 22:55 - Dead Reckoning 39:30 - Teotihuacan: City of Gods 41:38 - Marco Polo II: In the Service of the Khan 45:30 - Food Chain Magnate 48:15 - An Infamous Traffic 48:57 - This Guilty Land 49:33 - Oink Games 50:17 - DURIAN Join the discussion at: https://boardgamebarrage.com/discord

For my money Tom Russell is one of the most interesting, thoughtful game designers working. For 90 minutes we go deep into his design process, what he hopes to accomplish with his games, the strategy behind Hollandspiele, and what he considers his best work ever: This Guilty Land.  1:40 - Tom's Introduction to Board Gaming11:08 - Starting in Design20:49 - Publishing and Hollandspiele29:03 - Design Process and How Do You Make So Many Games?46:36 - Irish Gauge48:42 - The Soo Line55:24 - For-Ex1:06:07 - This Guilty Land1:15:56 - What is a Wargame? What is Objectivity?1:27:52 - Hollandspiele Recommendations Music: Sailing The Solar Wind by Abstraction Like the podcast? Want to watch it being recorded, live? Consider supporting it on Patreon.

Padesátý třetí díl o hrách This Guilty Land od Toma Russella a Hollandspielle a Fort Sumter od Marka Hermana a GMT Games. https://hollandspiele.com/products/this-guilty-land https://www.gmtgames.com/p-648-fort-sumter-the-secession-crisis-1860-61.aspx

We throw back to our very first episode, with our biggest surprises and disappointments of the year gone by. 2018 was a year of highs and lows, but sometimes you just don't see them coming. The difference between expectation and the final product is what this week's episode is all about. Before we gaze back wistfully, we talk about Akrotiri, Blue Moon City, and This Guilty Land. 01:56 - Akrotiri 05:09 - Innovation 05:27 - Blue Moon City 10:31 - This Guilty Land 16:37 - 2018’s Biggest Disappointments 16:57 - Rising Sun 21:29 - The 7th Continent 25:31 - Merlin 32:07 - 2018’s Best Surprises 32:21 - Space Base 34:31 - Decrypto 37:18 - Lords of Hellas

Constant vigilance is the price of audio quality, and we apologize for how badly that struggle has been going of late. Walker prostrates himself before the altar of Bars, and Bars we achieve, but the nature of those Bars have been fickle. Their shape and pattern cannot be properly contained or channeled, and thus they spurn us and assault your ears. Rest assured that we are consulting the augurs and they are poring over the entrails of many a cassette tape in order to discern how we may appease the Bars. But yeah, it's totally Mark's fault.We have a Patreon, if you're inclined to support us.Games Played Last Week: -XCOM: The Boardgame--Evolution 1m51s (Samuel Bailey & Mark Larson, Fantasy Flight, 2016)-Quest for El Dorado: Heroes and Hexes 2m56s (Reiner Knizia, Ravensburger, 2018)-Kitchen Rush 5m59s (Vangelis Bagiartakis & Dávid Turczi, Artipia, 2017)-Codenames 6m59s (Vlaada Chvatil, CGE, 2015)-Wildlands 9m18s (Martin Wallace, Osprey, 2018)-Scythe: The Rise of Fenris 14m44s (Ryan Lopez DeVinaspre & Jamey Stegmaier, Stonemaier, 2018)-Tobago 18m40s (Bruce Allen, Zoch Verlag, 2009)-This Guilty Land 19m42s (Tom Russell, Hollandspiele, 2018)News (and why it doesn't matter)-FFG Returns to Lord of the Rings 24m27s-Wolff Designaa in 2019: Guards and Tricks 26m11s-Snakes and Lattes unhinges its jaw and expands 27m41s-Suburbia's custom colours 28m12sFeature Game: New Frontiers 29m43s (Thomas Lehmann, Rio Grande, 2018)Topic: How Many Versions Is Too Many? 58m30sPatreon Summary 1h12m11s

Constant vigilance is the price of audio quality, and we apologize for how badly that struggle has been going of late. Walker prostrates himself before the altar of Bars, and Bars we achieve, but the nature of those Bars have been fickle. Their shape and pattern cannot be properly contained or channeled, and thus they spurn us and assault your ears. Rest assured that we are consulting the augurs and they are poring over the entrails of many a cassette tape in order to discern how we may appease the Bars. But yeah, it's totally Mark's fault.We have a Patreon, if you're inclined to support us.Games Played Last Week: -XCOM: The Boardgame--Evolution 1m51s (Samuel Bailey & Mark Larson, Fantasy Flight, 2016)-Quest for El Dorado: Heroes and Hexes 2m56s (Reiner Knizia, Ravensburger, 2018)-Kitchen Rush 5m59s (Vangelis Bagiartakis & Dávid Turczi, Artipia, 2017)-Codenames 6m59s (Vlaada Chvatil, CGE, 2015)-Wildlands 9m18s (Martin Wallace, Osprey, 2018)-Scythe: The Rise of Fenris 14m44s (Ryan Lopez DeVinaspre & Jamey Stegmaier, Stonemaier, 2018)-Tobago 18m40s (Bruce Allen, Zoch Verlag, 2009)-This Guilty Land 19m42s (Tom Russell, Hollandspiele, 2018)News (and why it doesn't matter)-FFG Returns to Lord of the Rings 24m27s-Wolff Designaa in 2019: Guards and Tricks 26m11s-Snakes and Lattes unhinges its jaw and expands 27m41s-Suburbia's custom colours 28m12sFeature Game: New Frontiers 29m43s (Thomas Lehmann, Rio Grande, 2018)Topic: How Many Versions Is Too Many? 58m30sPatreon Summary 1h12m11s

00:01 Introduction; 00:05 This Guilty Land released; 01:25 AIT Upgrade decks; 02:35 More questions; 03:00 Escape from Hades; 04:40 Sci-fi games generally; 05:30 The only two fans in the world of High Speed Hover Tank; 06:10 Shields & Swords Ancients; 06:55 Shields & Swords (medieval edition); 08:05 Black beans; 08:45 Endurance; 10:10 Roman games; 11:40 Developers; 14:45 Mary has a flashback; 16:40 Dinosaur Table Battles.

00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Star Treks; 01:00 Q is boring; 02:35 TNG; 04:20 DS9; 05:15 Smart characters acting dumb; 06:10 NATO Air Commander released; 06:25 First day sales; 07:15 Tom's business advice; 07:45 The PNP question; 09:40 Tom's amused face; 09:55 Prioritizing our time; 11:00 This Guilty Land.

In this minisode, Travis chats at length with designer and publisher Tom Russell from Hollandspiele about recent releases and the controversial upcoming release, This Guilty Land. Check us out online here: Twitter | Online | Email | BGG Guild | Slack | iTunes | Stitcher | Punchboard Media | Patreon Sponsored by Game Surplus   Music: Ray Gun - FasterFasterBrighter (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0

In this episode we talk about, Brave Little Belgium, This Guilty Land, Games Workshop plus news and more games we played.

00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Two year anniversary; 00:25 Then and now; 00:50 "Generally, you're not annoying"; 01:05 Finding our niche; 02:30 Mary's psychotic powers; 03:15 Mary's the one with the numbers; 04:25 The old podcasts are back up; 06:40 Ten or eleven hours; 06:55 Gulp-gulp-gulp; 07:15 The hotness; 08:15 Northern Pacific; 09:05 California wildfires; 11:30 This Guilty Land; 14:30 Thank you.

00:01 Introduction; 00:05 CSW Expo; 02:25 Tom is bad at impressions; 02:40 The Big Push out now; 03:05 Our fiftieth episode; 03:40 "Can we not say we?"; 05:00 We might have three listeners; 05:20 The first question; 05:45 Playing scientific; 07:20 How we got into modern games; 09:45 The second question; 09:55 This Guilty Land; 10:20 The Soo Line; 12:10 Westphalia; 13:35 Shields & Swords Ancients; 14:10 "I notice on your list there are no dinosaurs"; 15:35 This went to a dark place; 16:05 Mowing the grass; 16:35 Contractor stories.

00:01 Introduction; 00:06 All Year jokes; 01:10 The Christmas Plague; 02:15 Going to the store; 04:35 Reprimanded for being sick; 06:15 Reprimanded for not dying; 08:30 Oddly fairly productive; 09:50 Excited about This Guilty Land; 10:50 "You get sick and you do a lot of work"; 11:40 We tried to go to a movie; 12:20 January releases.