Pick Up and Deliver
A brief podcast about hobby board games, recorded by English professor Brendan Riley on brief 15 minute walks around town. Join us for a stroll as we discuss mechanisms, gameplay, theory, and topics of the day.
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- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 17 minutes
- Episodes
- 774
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Chopping Block Games 2020
Pick Up & Deliver 294: Chopping Block Games 2021 - Brendan updates listeners on the Chopping Block games from last year, and adds new games to the list this year.
00:17:41 |
Tue 05 Jan 2021
Top of the Stack, January 2021
Pick Up & Deliver 293: Top of the Stack, January 2021 - Brendan reviews his month's gameplay statistics and the overall games played in 2020. He also discusses his plans for January. Join us, won't y…
00:18:24 |
Mon 04 Jan 2021
Gaming Assumptions, part 2
Pick Up & Deliver 292: Gaming Assumptions, part 2 - Brendan continues his discussion of assumptions that shape the way we play games and encounter rules. Join us, won't you?
00:17:51 |
Thu 17 Dec 2020
Gaming Assumptions, part 1
Pick Up & Deliver 291: Gaming Assumptions, part 1 - Brendan shares his thinking about how our assumptions of the way games will work shape our expectations and experiences of those games. Join us, wo…
00:18:01 |
Mon 14 Dec 2020
Christmas Movies Themestorm, part 2
Pick Up & Deliver 290: Christmas Movies Themestorm, part 2 - Brendan continues thinking about how to make board games out of Christmas movies. Join us, won't you?
00:17:52 |
Wed 09 Dec 2020
Christmas Movies Themestorm, part 1
Pick Up & Deliver 289: Christmas Movies Themestorm, part 1 - Brendan shares some ideas about how you might make a movie out of some classic Christmas films. Join us, won’t you?
00:17:11 |
Mon 07 Dec 2020
The 'geek Asks 7
Pick Up & Deliver 288: The 'geek asks 7 - Brendan answers BGG forum posts whose subject lines feel like questions for him to answer.
00:20:52 |
Fri 04 Dec 2020
Top of the Stack, December 2020
Pick Up & Deliver 287: Top of the Stack, December 2020 - Brendan shares his gameplay stats from the last month, how he did on his plans, and his games on the stack for next month.
00:20:25 |
Wed 02 Dec 2020
Calico, Railroad Ink: Red, Visitor in Blackwood Grove
Pick Up & Deliver 268: Calico, Railroad Ink: Red, Visitor in Blackwood Grove (Shootin’ from the Hip) – Brendan shares his first impressions of three games he’s tried recently. Join us, won’t you?
00:20:42 |
Mon 30 Nov 2020
BGG Weighs In on the 180-degree Rule, part 2
Pick Up & Deliver 285: BGG Weighs In on the 180-degree Rule, part 2 - Brendan continues his follow-up discussion of the 180-degree Rule in Board Games, elaborating on additional ideas introduced by r…
00:16:07 |
Wed 25 Nov 2020
BGG Weighs In on the 180-degree Rule, part 1
Pick Up & Deliver 284: BGG Weighs In On the 180-degree Rule, part 1 - Brendan returns to the discussion of the 180-degree rule to discuss the feedback he received from this thread on Boardgame Geek. …
00:18:22 |
Mon 23 Nov 2020
Rules Blunders Revisited
Pick Up & Deliver 283: Rules Blunders Revisited - Brendan returns to a topic he covered nearly two years ago, "Rules Blunders," and discusses a few new mistakes he's made, and how they affect the exp…
00:19:07 |
Fri 20 Nov 2020
The State of Board Gaming for Me Right Now
Pick Up & Deliver 282: The State of Board Gaming for Me Right Now - Brendan shares his thinking about the state of his board game life, what he's been doing to keep things going, what forums and disc…
00:19:11 |
Wed 18 Nov 2020
Brass Lancashire and Birmingham (Message from the Deep)
Brass Lancashire & Birmingham (Message from the Deep) - Brendan returns to an old show format, in which he talks about a game in depth. In this episode, Brendan discusses the two Brass games, Brass: …
00:19:57 |
Mon 16 Nov 2020
The Board Game 180-Degree Rule
Pick Up & Deliver, episode 280: The Board Game 180-Degree Rule - Brendan discusses the film concept of the 180-degree rule, what it means, and how it translates to Board Game Design, then considers a…
00:19:11 |
Fri 13 Nov 2020
When Belief Overrules Evidence
Pick Up & Deliver 279: When Belief Overrules Evidence - Brendan talks about how our impressions and experiences shape our impression of a game, and how those impressions sustain long after those idea…
00:20:01 |
Wed 11 Nov 2020
Otys, My City, Parks, & Obsession (Shootin' from the Hip)
Pick Up & Deliver 278: Otys, My City, Parks, & Obsession (Shootin' from the Hip) - What games have you been playing lately? Drop over to our boardgame geek guild #3269 and join the conversation.
00:22:22 |
Mon 09 Nov 2020
Good Sports and Sore Losers
Pick Up & Deliver 277: Good Sports and Sore Losers - Apropos of nothing in particular, Brendan talks about how games and players encourage players to be good sports and help discourage players and pl…
00:19:17 |
Fri 06 Nov 2020
Backstage on Halloween among the Bad News Bears
Pick Up & Deliver 276: Backstage on Halloween among the Bad News Bears (Shootin’ from the Hip – Expansions) – Brendan shares his thoughts on his early plays of three expansions to games he enjoys. Jo…
00:20:20 |
Thu 05 Nov 2020
Top of the Stack, November 2020
Pick Up & Deliver 275: Top of the Stack, November 2020 - Brendan shares his November update, discussing what games he played in October and how he did on his yearly and monthly goals. He also shares …
00:22:52 |
Mon 02 Nov 2020
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