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Board Game Bros

BOARD GAME BROS

We are Jeffrey Craig and Matthew Craig - brothers in real life and board game designers in real life. This is our board game hobbyist/design podcast where we talk about our favorite games. We start every episode talking about how the game is played, and then we examine how game design was used to assist the player and enhance the gameplay.

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Update frequency
every 11 days
Average duration
55 minutes
Episodes
141
Years Active
2018 - 2022
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41: Terraforming Mars

41: Terraforming Mars

This week the Board Game Bros discuss the atmosphere-altering game of corporate battle Terraforming Mars. Listen as they rank resources, encourage engine building, and compliment how the game works w…

01:09:43  |   Sat 25 Aug 2018
40: Charterstone Part 2

40: Charterstone Part 2

The Board Game Brother's are back again with the shortly-awaited sequel to episode 24 in Charterstone part 2! SPOILER ALERT: Jeff and Matt (along with their parents) finished the game and in their lo…

01:11:22  |   Sat 18 Aug 2018
39: Concordia

39: Concordia

This week the Board Game Brothers are back to discuss the Mediterranean-spanning euro game Concordia. Jeff and Matt have some hangups on the game's otherwise ingenious card action system, but some th…

01:01:01  |   Sat 11 Aug 2018
38: Goodstuffs Episode 7

38: Goodstuffs Episode 7

It's another installment of BGB goodstuffs, the Board Game Brothers discuss a whole host of topics, board gaming and otherwise! Learn what games they've been playing lately, what games won Spiel des …

00:29:01  |   Wed 01 Aug 2018
37: From the Vault: Geekway 2017

37: From the Vault: Geekway 2017

Jeff's feeling under the weather this week, so for your listening pleasure here is a Board Game Bros episode recorded May 31, 2017 covering Geekway 2017! This was the second episode Jeff and Matt eve…

00:33:05  |   Sat 28 Jul 2018
36: Red Dragon Inn 2 & 3

36: Red Dragon Inn 2 & 3

In the final week of Expansion month, the Board Game Bros are hitting you with a double feature of expansions: Red Dragon Inn 2 and 3. Learn the various ways the designers addressed the same-ness of …

01:04:44  |   Sat 21 Jul 2018
35: Small World: Underground

35: Small World: Underground

In the next expansion of the Board Game Bros' month-long look at board game expansions, Matt and Jeff discuss the expansion/sequel Small World: Underground. Learn how the addition of a simple mechani…

00:56:48  |   Sat 14 Jul 2018
34: Dominion: Intrigue

34: Dominion: Intrigue

In July the Board Game Bros are discussing expansions of games from previous episodes. In the first episode of this series, Jeff and Matt talk about the first expansion of the OG deckbuilder Dominion…

00:56:44  |   Sat 07 Jul 2018
33: Goodstuffs Episode 6

33: Goodstuffs Episode 6

This month the Board Game Bros have more video games to talk about than ever! New Magic set, new Overwatch hero, plus we tried out Roll Player.

00:39:47  |   Sun 01 Jul 2018
32: How to Start Designing a Board Game

32: How to Start Designing a Board Game

This week the Board Game Bros give helpful tips for the process of game design. Learn that there's no such thing as too much playtesting, and don't sweat trying to make the perfect game - the importa…

00:43:28  |   Sat 30 Jun 2018
31: Munchkin

31: Munchkin

This week the board game brothers discuss the 2001 backs-stabbing dungeon-crawling card game Munchkin! Listen as Jeff and Matt sympathetically give this game a good roasting for how it was designed f…

00:56:01  |   Sat 23 Jun 2018
30: Spirit Island

30: Spirit Island

This week the Board Game Bros discuss the cooperative colonial-destroying game Spirit Island. Learn the not-perfect-but-good-enough strategy for pushing back colonial oppressors from your perfect isl…

01:02:26  |   Sat 16 Jun 2018
29: Champions of Midgard

29: Champions of Midgard

This week the Board Game Bros discuss the worker placement dice battle viking game Champions of Midgard. Learn about how Jeffrey thinks this is a worker placement game with dice elements, and how con…

00:59:35  |   Sat 09 Jun 2018
28: Charterstone Part 1

28: Charterstone Part 1

In today's episode, the Board Game Bros. discuss the legacy worker-placement game Charterstone. Listen as Matt and Jeff explore how the game uses the campaign format to its advantage, how the game pa…

01:01:49  |   Sun 03 Jun 2018
27: Goodstuffs Episode 5 (Geekway Edition)

27: Goodstuffs Episode 5 (Geekway Edition)

For this month's special BGB Goodstufs episode, the Board Game Brothers discuss every game they played at Geekway to the West. Listen to hear what they thought of all these games, which ones they won…

01:07:54  |   Fri 01 Jun 2018
26: Collectible Card Games

26: Collectible Card Games

In may's end-of-month genre discussion, the Board Game Bros tackle competitive card games. Learn how a players relationship with a collectible card game grows and deepens over time and how game desig…

01:05:13  |   Sat 26 May 2018
25: Millennium Blades

25: Millennium Blades

In the third and final installment of Greatest Hits May, the Board Game Brothers discuss the listener-requested TCG "meta" game Millennium Blades. Learn how this game attempts to simulate the experie…

01:01:43  |   Sat 19 May 2018
24: We Didn't Playtest This at All

24: We Didn't Playtest This at All

In the next installment of Board Game Bros' Greatest Hits May, Jeff and Matt discuss their favorite party game We Didn't Playtest This at All. Learn how this game manages to make losing fun and other…

00:49:36  |   Sat 12 May 2018
23: Scythe

23: Scythe

May is Board Game Bros' greatest hits month where they talk about some of their favorite games of all time (which they inevitably talk about in every episode) and Jeff and Matt kick it off with Scyth…

01:08:12  |   Sat 05 May 2018
22: Goodstuffs Episode 4

22: Goodstuffs Episode 4

This month the Board Game Bros have 2 months of gaming to catch up on in Goodstuffs Episode 4! Matt and Jeff talk about some upcoming games, some games they have bought and played, some games they ha…

00:40:03  |   Wed 02 May 2018
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