Table Talk 014: A Timely and Relevant Chat about GenCon 2024
Not many notes, but you should be grateful we even got this one done.
Games mentioned:
Wandering Towers
Intarsia
Azul Cinematic Universe
Harvest
Fromage
Viticulture
Three of a Kind
Agricola
Prey another Day
Dro…
Table Talk 013: A Chat about Gateway Games
Table Talk 013: A Chat about Gateway Games
Taylor and Alice discuss games that got them into the hobby and what makes something a “gateway game” anyway.
Games mentioned (so many!):
Agueda https://board…
Table Talk Episode 012: A (Solo) Chat about Reimplementation
An experimental podcast with only one voice about games getting reskinned. What are your favorite reimplementations? What makes them better than the original? Or, alternatively, worse?
Games mentione…
Table Talk Episode 011: A Chat about Editing Your Board Game Collection
After a hiatus of embarrassing length because of a disastrous attempt to record an actual play podcast of the infuriating and deeply beige game De Vulgari Eloquentia, we return triumphantly for our f…
Table Talk Episode 010: A Chat About GenCon 2023
Was GenCon 2023 a dumpster fire? Or just a smoldering waste paper basket? Listen on, friends, as Taylor and Alice wax poetical!
Games mentioned:
Disney Lorcana
Cosmic Frog
Gartenbau
The Finest Fish
Habitat…
Table Talk Episode 009.5: A Chat with Cezar Capacle
Taylor G and Alice C talk with RPG superstar designer Cezar Capable about design, feelings, colonization, and, apparently, zombie cows.
Cryptid: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/246784/cryptid
P…
Table Talk Episode 009: A Chat About House Rules
This week, Alice and Taylor have some strong feelings about house rules for board games.
Games referenced in this episode:
Table Talk Episode 008: The Klaus Teuber Spectacular!
It took us a while to get our meeply asses in gear, but we (Alice, Bailey, David, Taylor, and Victoria) finally managed to get together in one (virtual) place and pay tribute to Klaus Teuber, designe…
Table Talk Episode 007: A Chat about "Replayability"
What makes a game replayable a few times? Many times in a row? Something you long to play again? Taylor and Alice give you the definitive answer.
Caverna
Agricola
Frosthaven
Shifting Stones
Moon Base
…
Table Talk Episode 006: A Chat About Finding Cool Games
Taylor and Alice chat with friend and DWP contributor Bailey D about how she finds off-beat and less popular games. And they’re coming to you live (recorded) from the Edge House’s annual 24-Hour Boar…
Table Talk Episode 005: A Chat About Travel
When you go on vacation, how do you take your game collection? Obviously, you need to take them, you’ll need to play them. But what about all those boxes and bits? What games are good for various sit…
Table Talk Episode 004: An Exhaustive Holiday Buying Guide
In the grand tradition of annual “best of” lists, Taylor and Alice offer you a list of the best games for extremely specific people. All of which are actually good.
Games Mentioned:
Fairy Trails
The Gal…
Table Talk Episode 003: A Chat About Feelings
Taylor and Alice talk about why they love/hate games about feelings in this meandering and contemplative third episode. What is your experience of games about feelings? Do you tolerate them? Try to g…
Table Talk Episode 002
Table Talk 002: A Chat about First Plays
When you play a game for the first time, what do you look for? How do you play well? What makes a first play fun? Or, for that matter, a second or 50th?
Featu…
Table Talk Episode 001
Welcome to our conversation, featuring unprofessional bag crinkling and table-smacking!
Games talked about in this podcast:
Game Changers Season Two E3: Sooooooo Much Winning
In this episode David starts out by looking at what we get out of competing vs cooperating in tabletop games...
...and then things take an unexpected turn.
All music copyright 2022 by David Weiss.
Check…
Game Changers Season Two E3: The FORMAT Format
If game design is an artform--and I believe it is--then it deserves an aesthetic framework and a language to discuss it and its potential. Hence FORMAT.
To discover what FORMAT stands for, in all sen…
Game Changers Season Two E2: Ghost in the Machine
If a game is "a machine for telling stories that end with players winning and/or losing", what are its components? And what energy drives it? That's what we're discussing this month. (Which is also a…
Game Changers Season Two E1: Resetting the Pieces
Welcome back to The Game Changers. In the first episode, David catches you up on his 2021 and then plunges in to the first Big Question of Season Two: just what is a game?
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Game Changers Season Two Teaser
Yes, that's right. It's taken over a year, but Season Two of The Game Changers is coming!
Check us out at https://theyrecalledvictorypoints.com/ or on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/theyre_cal…