This week we talk about game demos and what we can learn from them.  But first…

Off Topic

Chris is back into the Kickstarter swing with Triplock, Gruff: Rage of Trolls, Bio-Logic, Rise of Tribes, and The Component Collector.

We then get some feedback from Sydnie, Christy, and Sam to talk about.

On Topic

We start off thinking about game demos and if they are useful for learning games at home.  This quickly turns into a discussion about games that kind of do this already by having “first game” versions of the rules.  We end talking about some of the games we demoed at Origins last week.

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Our first live show!  Origins 2017.   We go on topic in record time and talk about a ton of games we played, including…

• Century: Spice Road
• Barenpark
• Werewords
• Ren Fair
• Pengoloo
• Shahrazad
• The Lost Expedition
• Masters of Orion
• Wichhunt
• and more…

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This week we talk about bringing gaming ideas into our normal lives, and just a bit of educational games as well.

Off Topic

Come watch us live at Origins this week.  Friday June 16th, at 6:00pm in Room A215.

Some Kickstarters to check out:

• Lords of Hellas https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/awakenrealms/lords-of-hellas
• Deception: Undercover Allies https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/152730994/deception-undercover-allies-0
• Bio-Logic  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gaiagamestudios/bio-logic-microscopic-domination-inside-the-human

And a couple quick questions this week from Sam (on what is “mass market” and “variants introduced by expansions”) and Steven (on how to start going to Cons).

On Topic

We start out talking about Gamification in fitness (AppleWatch and FitBits).  And then there’s a bit about apps that try to gamify tasks lists.  We then go into gamifying games with the goal of education which leads Chris to add a show on educational games to the future lineup.

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This is episode 42, but does not contain any answers to the universe.  What it does contain is talk about house rules and changing up your game to suit your play style.

Off Topic

We have an origins day and time!  Friday June 16th at 6:00pm in room A215.  We’ll be recording our first ever live episode.  Join us if you’re in Columbus (at Origins).

On Topic

We talk about Monopoly, more than we should, but it was fun none-the-less.  We then talk Gloomhaven, Too Many Bones, and Werewolf (among others) variant rules.

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