Archive for November, 2006
Kings Court 007: Family Business
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Derek reviews Family Business, a card game about mobsters and mob war. Knock off your friends and protect your own family. |
| Family Business Publisher: Mayfair Gamess Players: 2-6 Ages: 8+ MSRP: $10.00 Play Time: 30-60 minutes |
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Out of Character 007: Celebrating National Games Week 2006
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A full week of festivities include Thanksgiving, National Games Week, GenCon SoCal, and Christmas shopping. Apart from catching up with our feedback, we talk about a few role-playing products that have recently been sent to us. |
Don reads a couple of introductions from Evil Hat Productions to background music provided by Midnight Syndicate. These include Don’t Rest Your Head and Spirit of the Century. Works are also quoted from The Fifth Tribe, available at RPGNow.com.
We also spend some time talking about Three Sages Games. They produce Dwarf Stones, Elvish Checkers, and a role-playing game spun from many years of local play called Realms of Wor.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!
Out of Character 006: Games for Christmas
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The Christmas shopping season has begun. Today’s show is chalked full of Christmas gift ideas. Board games are a fun and socially constructive way to spend Christmas afternoon after the gifts are unwrapped and make healthy food for the brain. Today’s show includes gift ideas for both families and hobbyists. You can find your local game store with this store locator or contact us, we’ll hook you up. |
Games mentioned in today’s show in include:
- Puerto Rico
- Wits and Wagers
- Apples to Apples
- Are you a Werewolf?
- Flux
- Treehouse
- Bison
- Settlers of Catan
- Aweful Green Things from Outer Space (out of print)
- Lord of the Rings
- Seismic
- Once Upon a Time
- Nanofictionary
- Ingenious
- SiegeStones
- Ice Lake
- Flip Mats
- Area of Effect Templates
- Dwarven Metal Dice
- Dwarven Stone Dice
- D20 plush dangler
- The Gamers
Kings Court 006: Bison
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Jeremiah shares Bison, a tile game with a Native American theme about resource dominance. This is defiantly a solid game hobby gamers will love. |
| Bison Publisher: Mayfair Games, Phalanx Games Players: 2-4 Ages: 10+ MSRP: $30.00 Play Time: 90 minutes Designed By: Wolfgang Kramer, Michael Kiesling |
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Inside Track 006: Dominic Crapuchettes and Satish Pillalamarri
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Two join us this week; Dominic Crapuchettes and Satish Pillalamarri, co-designers and business partners of North Star Games. They met in business college and have set out together to bring great designer games to the mass market. |
| North Star Games has been recognized by many awards for Cluzzle and its more recent release, Wits and Wagers. Both are instant hits with a wide audience appeal. |  |
Out of Character 005: Tongue Lashing
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We are now down to two recording locations and working to put together the new studio. In addition to those changes we have renamed Jesters Court to Kings Court. As it turns out, w00t Radio already had a podcast called Jester‘s Court. As we plow through the backlog of feedback we also present a list of games that are in the review bin that had not yet been mentioned. |
| During the break, we are treated by an excellent trailer of Daughter of the Sun. This book is writen by Lonnie Ezell and available in podcast format. Great job on the trailer, Lonnie! We are eager to check out the book. |  |
Kings Court 005: Monkey Arena
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Derek reviews Monkey Arena, a playful board game where monkeys battle for victory. Make sure to dodge flung poo in this simple and fun family or filler game. |
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Inside Track 005: Brant Guillory
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Brant Guillory, author of the Games Research Project, joins in the ongoing discussion we have been having about his research. Brant is a staff writer for The Wargamer, a graduate student at Ohio State University, and an experienced game developer. |
Links for today’s show include:
- Games Research Project
- The Wargamer
- BayonetGames
- Game Manufacturers Association (GAMA)
- Ohio State University
Out of Character 004: On the Drive
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In preparation for Don’s Drive to Arizona, we pre-recorded this episode to post for you. We hope we can be up and operating without notice in our schedule. We touch on some of the games we have been playing lately and digress into some talk about our favorite television shows. |
- Derek shares his recent experience with Railroad Tycoon.
- We talk in some great length about Are you a Werewolf, a recent favorite at Don’s going away parties.
- Jeremiah’s Daughter alters the rules to Candy Land.
- A new modern version of Monopoly is brought up. Of course, we haven’t played, but its talked about anyway.
The television discussion included these shows:
Jesters Court 004: Hunting Party
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Derek reviews Hunting Party, a boxed game where you are responsible for deciphering prophecy. Build your party and beat the shadow creatures to make the money you need to win the game. |
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