Episodes
Friday May 25, 2018
Marc's Top 100 Games 2018 Edition: 60-41
Friday May 25, 2018
Friday May 25, 2018
Special for our list-aficionado fans out there--another list! The middlest of the best games ever, or something like that. Marc, Matt, and Orion talk about some quality games.
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1:53 - Stats
4:47 - El Grande
9:49 - Colonial Twilight
14:48 - Friday
17:55 - Mechs v. Minions
22:49 - Sushi Go Party
25:23 - Secret Hitler
30:12 - Captain Sonar
34:40 - Eclipse
38:50 - Harvest
43:30 - Tokaido
46:29 - Memoir '44
52:48 - Roll For The Galaxy
58:36 - Galaxy Trucker
1:02:42 - Fire In The Lake
1:06:13 - Carcassonne
1:09:31 - Forbidden Desert
1:12:30 - Mysterium
1:15:37 - Keyflower
1:18:21 - Lost Cities
1:20:53 - Nusfjord
Music: Sailing The Solar Wind by Abstraction
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Thursday May 17, 2018
Ep 31: Hindered Communication Games
Thursday May 17, 2018
Thursday May 17, 2018
Marc, Orion, and Matt talk about "hindered communication" games, where you're trying to communicate something to another person with an arbitrary barrier in the way. Word association games like Taboo or Codenames are the most well-known types of these games, but we discover that the genre we kind of made up is a lot bigger than that.
Also in this episode, Marc pitches his million dollar invention idea, and everyone marvels over the word "algorithm".
2:11 - Defining Our Terms
3:58 - The Classics
9:55 - The Apples To Apples Continuum
13:45 - Word Association Games
30:23 - Beyond Word Association
35:55 - Idea Association
46:04 - How These Games Succeed
1:03:08 - Oddities And The Hanabi Problem
1:15:31 - Metagaming
Music: Sailing The Solar Wind by Abstraction
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Wednesday May 09, 2018
Marc's Top 100 Games 2018 Edition: 80-61
Wednesday May 09, 2018
Wednesday May 09, 2018
We're creeping down the list to better and better games. Marc, Matt, Orion, and Ben talk through some of Marc's favorite games ever. This time we hit some serious controversy, the ripples of which are felt all throughtout the rest of the list. Marc stands by his rankings.
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2:35 - Command And Colors: Ancients
5:10 - Wits and Wagers
9:54 - Archipelago
14:11 - Dice Forge
16:40 - Capital
18:44 - Millennium Blades
23:55 - Libertalia
27:18 - Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective
32:14 - Star Wars Rebellion
36:32 - Dungeon Lords
41:48 - Paramedics: Clear!
45:40 - Above and Below
50:12 - Blood In The Fog
54:34 - CrossTalk
1:01:17 - Onitama
1:03:37 - London
1:08:13 - Kemet
1:14:08 - Calimala
1:18:08 - Star Wars Imperial Assault
1:21:52 - Five Tribes
Music: Sailing The Solar Wind by Abstraction
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Friday May 04, 2018
Ep 30: Dry Games
Friday May 04, 2018
Friday May 04, 2018
Prompted by a discussion in the Thoughtful Gamer discord channel, Marc, Orion, and Matt explore the nature of language, games, and aqueousness as they discuss what constitutes a dry game. It's a concept that people seem to understand but can't quite define. Will we be able to do it? Spoiler: I have no idea.
Skip to 5:09 if you don't care about sports.
Music: Sailing The Solar Wind by Abstraction
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