#107: Gen Con 2019 Recap

Regular show notes coming soon! In the meantime, here’s the timestamps for what we talk about!

Section Timestamps:

01:00 Thursday Recap Intro w/Shane!

04:11 Thundergryph Games - Hats, Rolling Ranch

06:46 Adam’s Apple Games - Thrive, Truck Off Roll-and-Write

11:24 Fowers Games - Burgle Bros 2

12:54 XYZ labs - Arch Ravelry

16:11 Funforge - Namiji

18:10 Junk Spirit Games - Battle of the Bards

19:35 Brain Games - Iron Forest, Pigasus

23:42 Karen Twelves’ Improv for Roleplayers class

26:17 Storm Chaser / Greater Than Games - Medium

31:05 HABA - Miyabi, Club der Tatzen

37:22 Blue Orange - Detective Club

41:05 Helvetiq - Kawaii

42:36 IDW - Tonari

45:00 RDTN strike tournament

46:15 Elf Creek Games - Honey Buzz

53:20 Friday Recap intro

55:17 Asmadi Games - 1001 Odysseys

59:44 Space Cowboys - T.I.M.E Stories Revolution ‘Damien’

69:42 Portal Games - Imperial Settlers Roll-and-Write

71:06 Good Games - Fluttering Souls

74:01 Resonym - Mechanica

69:33 Dire wolf digital - Raiders of the North Sea, Root, Sagrada digital, Clank Legacy

84:15 Board&Dice - Yedo Deluxe, Trismegistus, Escape Tales Low Memory

91:32 North Star Games’ Wits & Wagers Vegas Game Show

92:30 Renegade Games Studios Rally

95:12 Foxtrot - the Search for Planet X

97:22 Grey Fox Games Sponsorship Spot

98:26 Saturday Recap Intro w/Gates!

100:44 Z-Man Games - Noctiluca

102:35 HeidelBAR Games - Wordsmith, Decipher

106:24 HUB Games - Megacity: Oceania, Holding On: The Troubled Life of Billy Kerr

111:35 Libellud - One Key

114:11 HUB Games - Flip Over Frog

115:35 Sizigi Studios - Cake Duel

117:10 Pandasaurus - Wayfinders

119:09 Gather Round Games - Schedule Simulator

122:05 Pandasaurus - Dead Man’s Cabal

128:08 Kuma’s Corner Burger Trip

130:34 Sunday Recap Intro

131:17 HUB Games - Flip Over Frog

133:48 HABA - Wobble King

135:55 Wrap-up and The Trip Home

138:29 Outro

140:12 Punchboard Media show ads

143:21 Level check

#106: The Gen Con 2019 Hype List

Draft Mechanic Episode #106: What We Are Excited To See at Gen Con 2019

Kickstarters:
Chain Mail (Kickstarter)
Chiseled: A Deck-Sculpting Game (BGG) (Kickstarter)
Smartphone Inc. (BGG) (Kickstarter)

The Hype List Part 1:
Las Vegas Royale
2019, alea/Ravensburger Spieleverlag GmbH
Designer: Rüdiger Dorn
Artist: Antje Stephan, Claus Stephan

The Quacks of Quedlinburg: The Herb Witches
2019, North Star Games
Designer: Wolfgang Warsch
Artist: Dennis Lohausen

Black Angel
2019, Pearl Games
Designer: Sébastien Dujardin, Xavier Georges, Alain Orban
Artist: Ian O'Toole

1001 Odysseys
2019, Asmadi Games
Designer: Chris Cieslik, Alys Dutton, Sarah Farooqi, Julia Urquhart
Artist: Alanna Cervenak, Cari Corene, Sarah Farooqi

Bargain Quest
2019, Renegade Game Studios
Designer: Jonathan Ying
Artist: Victoria Ying

Sagrada - The Great Facades - Passion
2019, Floodgate Games
Designer: Adrian Adamescu, Daryl Andrews
Artist: Matt Paquette, Peter Wocken

Imhotep: The Duel
2018, KOSMOS
Designer: Phil Walker-Harding
Artist: Miguel Coimbra, Michaela Kienle, Claus Stephan

Mechanica
2019, Resonym
Designer: Mary Flanagan, Emma Hobday, Max Seidman
Artist: Cisco Garrido, Spring Yu, Ann-Sophie De Steur

The Artemis Project
2019, Grand Gamers Guild
Designer: Daryl Chow, Daniel Rocchi
Artist: Josh Cappel, Dominik Mayer

Shikoku
2019, Grand Gamers Guild
Designer: Eloi Pujadas
Artist: Amelia Sales

Decrypto: Expansion #01 – Laserdrive
2019, Le Scorpion Masqué
Designer: Thomas Dagenais-Lespérance
Artist: Fabien Fulchiron, NILS, Manuel Sanchez

Teotihuacan: Late Preclassic Period
2019, Board&Dice
Designer: Rainer Ahlfors, Andrei Novac, Daniele Tascini
Artist: Magdalena Klepacz, Paulina Wach

Sierra West
2019, Board&Dice
Designer: Jonny Pac Cantin
Artist: Jakub Fajtanowski, Michał Długaj

Rolling Ranch
2019, ThunderGryph Games
Designer: Jordy Adan
Artist: Weberson Santiago

Hats
2019, ThunderGryph Games
Designer: Gabriele Bubola
Artist: Paolo Voto

The Hype List Part 2:
Sleeping Gods
2020, Red Raven Games
Designer: Ryan Laukat
Artist: Ryan Laukat

Roam
2019, Red Raven Games
Designer: Ryan Laukat
Artist: Ryan Laukat

Downforce: Wild Ride
2019, Restoration Games
Designer: Rob Daviau, JR Honeycutt, Justin D. Jacobson
Artist: Tavis Coburn

Tsuro: Phoenix Rising
2019, Calliope Games
Designer: Tom McMurchie
Artist: Andrew Hepworth

Brainwaves: The Astute Goose
2018, KOSMOS
Designer: Reiner Knizia
Artist: Marc Margielsky

Brainwaves: The Wise Whale
2018, KOSMOS
Designer: Maureen Hiron
Artist: Marc Margielsky

Brainwaves: The Brilliant Boar
2018, KOSMOS
Designer: Dirk Baumann
Artist: Marc Margielsky

Adventure Games: Monochrome Inc.
2019, KOSMOS
Designer: Matthew Dunstan, Phil Walker-Harding
Artist: Maximilian Schiller

Adventure Games: The Dungeon
2019, KOSMOS
Designer: Matthew Dunstan, Phil Walker-Harding

Roll for Adventure
2019, KOSMOS
Designer: Matthew Dunstan, Brett J. Gilbert
Artist: Franz Vohwinkel

Medium
2019, Greater Than Games
Designer: Danielle Deley, Lindsey Sherwood, Nathan Thornton

Legends of Sleepy Hollow
2020, Dice Hate Me Studio
Designer: Ben Pinchback, Matt Riddle
Artist: Colin Chan, Abigail Larson, Darrell Louder, Francesco Orrù, Ksenia Svincova

Homebrewers
2019, Greater Than Games
Designer:Matthew O'Malley, Ben Rosset
Artist: SaRae Henderson, Adam Rebottaro

Atelier: The Painter’s Studio
2019, ThunderGryph Games
Designer: Nicolas Bongiu?
Artist: Gustave Caillebotte, Mary Cassatt, Paul Cézanne, Thomas Cole, Gustave Courbet, Honoré Daumier, Edgar Degas, Eugène Delacroix, Caspar David Friedrich, Henry Fuseli, Paul Gauguin, Francisco Goya, Winslow Homer, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Vincent van Gogh

Colors of Paris
2019, Super Meeple
Designer: Nicolas De Oliveira
Artist: Fabrice Weiss

Atlantis Rising
2019, Elf Creek Games
Designer: Galen Ciscell, Brent Dickman
Artist: Vincent Dutrait, Peter Gifford

Honey Buzz
2019, Elf Creek Games
Designer: Paul Salomon
Artist: Anne Heidsieck, Jason D. Kingsley

Reavers of Midgard
2019, Grey Fox Games
Designer: J.B. Howell
Artist: Yaroslav Radeckyi

Gem Hens
2019, Social Sloth Games
Designer: Jim DiCamillo, Patrick Marino

Slide Quest
2019, Blue Orange Games
Designer: Nicolas Bourgoin, Jean-François Rochas
Artist: Stéphane Escapa

Planet
2018, Blue Orange Games
Designer: Urtis Šulinskas
Artist: Sabrina Miramon

Letter Jam
2019, Czech Games Edition
Designer: Ondra Skoupý

Bärenpark: The Bad News Bears
2019, Lookout Games
Designer: Phil Walker-Harding
Artist: Klemens Franz

High Rise
2019, Formal Ferret Games
Designer: Gil Hova
Artist: Heiko Günther, Kwanchai Moriya

Section Timestamps:

01:00 Show Intro, News & Updates

03:05 Gen Con Meetup Plans

07:02 Games News: Raiders of the North Sea digital!

08:10 Kickstarter Updates

10:36 Kickstarter: Chain Mail

13:32 Kickstarter: Chiseled: A Deck-Sculpting Game

16:11 Kickstarter: Smartphone, Inc

18:21 Initial Thoughts about Gen Con 2019

22:53 The Hype List 2019, Part One

51:33 Grey Fox Games Sponsorship Spot

52:40 The Hype List 2019, Part Two

72:41 Final Round & Outro

#105: Blue Lagoon

Draft Mechanic Episode # 105: Blue Lagoon Six Pack & On Tap, Proving Grounds, Aerion, Beer Traveler: Michigan, Chicago, & North Atlanta

Kickstarters:
Pret-A-Porter 3rd Edition (BGG) (Kickstarter)
Dice Hospital: Community Care (BGG) (Kickstarter)
Rush M.D. (BGG) (Kickstarter)
One Small Step (BGG) (Kickstarter)
Dice Throne Adventures (BGG) (Kickstarter)

Recent Plays:
Proving Grounds
2019, Renegade Game Studios
Designer: Kane Klenko
Artist: Csaba Bernáth, Matthew Dobrich

Aerion
2019, Z-Man Games, Inc.
Designer: Shadi Torbey
Artist: Élise Plessis

Six Pack Review:
Blue Lagoon
2018, Blue Orange Games
Designer: Reiner Knizia
Artist: Tomasz Larek

On Tap:
Blue Lagoon
2018, Blue Orange Games
Designer: Reiner Knizia
Artist: Tomasz Larek
    •Modern Times Beer "Fortunate Islands";San Diego, CA, USA
    5% ABV, 46 IBU.
    Tropical Pale Ale.

    •Villages Brewery "Lagoon"; Deptford, London, England
    4.3% ABV.
    Red Ale.

    •Solorio Brewing Company "Blue Lagoon"; Rancho Cucamonga, CA, USA
    5.3% ABV.
    Blueberry Blonde Ale.

    •Maui Brewing Company "Coconut Hiwa Porter"; Kihei, HI, USA
    6% ABV, 30 IBU.
    Toasted Coconut Porter.

    •Coronado Brewing Company "Leisure Lagoon"; San Diego, CA, USA
    5.5% ABV, 55 IBU.
    Hazy Pale Ale.

Beer Traveler:
Ann Arbor, MI:
Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales - Ann Arbor
The Grotto Watering Hole

Grand Rapids, MI:
Founders Brewing Co.
Speciation Artisan Ales
Brewery Vivant

Southern Chicago:
Marz Community Brewing Co.
Maria’s Packaged Goods & Community Bar
Off Color Brewing - Mousetrap
Alulu Brewery & Pub

Northern “Atlanta”:
Reformation Brewery (Woodstock, GA)
Orpheus Brewing (Not in northern “atlanta”, in ATL proper)
Variant Brewing Company (Roswell, GA)
Gate City Brewing Company (Roswell, GA)

Section Timestamps:

01:00 Show Intro, News & Updates

02:40 Games News: Gen Con is HERE!

07:12 Games News: Gloomhaven Digital Edition

09:00 Games News: Luckyhammers gets the axe

10:23 Games News: Even More Villainous

11:30 Games News: Diana Jones Award Nods

13:34 Kickstarter Updates

16:22 Kickstarter: Pret-a-Porter 3E

18:32 Kickstarter: Dice Hospital Community Care

19:52 Kickstarter: Rush MD

22:32 Kickstarter: One Small Step

24:37 Kickstarter: Dice Throne Adventures

29:13 Recent Plays: Proving Grounds

43:01 Recent Plays: Aerion

52:58 Grey Fox Games Sponsorship Spot

54:03 Six Pack Review: Blue Lagoon

54:28 Blue Lagoon: Gameplay Overview

58:47 Blue Lagoon: Discussion

70:07 Blue Lagoon: Final Thoughts

72:05 On Tap: Blue Lagoon

75:56 Jake’s Beer Odyssey

101:05 Final Round & Outro

#104: 2018 Redux

Draft Mechanic Episode #104: 2018 Superlatives and Top Games Redux, The Alwaysgreen Garden Kickstarter Preview, Shikoku, Navegador, The Hearmees, and Recent Beer Legislation

Kickstarter:
Classy Dice Buddies (Part 1) (Kickstarter)
Board game Bag & Calendar (Kickstarter)
The Isle of Cats (BGG) (Kickstarter)
The Alwaysgreen Garden (BGG) (Kickstarter)

Recent Plays:
The Alwaysgreen Garden
2019, Splattered Ink Games
Designer: Darryl T. Jones
Artist: Darryl T. Jones

Shikoku
2019, Grand Gamers Guild
Designer: Eloi Pujadas
Artist: Amelia Sales

Navegador
2010, PD-Verlag/Rio Grande Games
Designer: Mac Gerdts
Artist: Marina Fahrenbach, Mac Gerdts

The Hearmees
2017, HABA
Designer: Wolfgang A. Lehmann

2018 Superlatives Redux:
Best Artwork:
Danielle: Root (Leder Games)
Jake: Everdell (Starling Games)

Best Non-mini Components:
Jake: the Mars Open: Tabletop Golf ball (Bellwether Games)
Danielle: The Expancity stacking skyscrapers (Breaking Games)

Biggest Disappointment:
Danielle: T.I.M.E. Stories: Brotherhood of the Coast (Space Cowboys)
Jake: Rising Sun (CMON Limited)

Game I Wish I'd Played in 2018:
Danielle: Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game (Portal Games)
Jake: Root (Leder Games)

Game I Wish I'd Played More of in 2018:
Danielle: The Quacks of Quedlinburg (North Star Games)
Change: Jake: Underwater Cities (Delicious Games)

Best Older Game I Played for the First Time in 2018:
Danielle: Ponzi Scheme (Tasty Minstrel Games)
Jake: Vinhos Deluxe Edition (Eagle-Gryphon Games)

Best Party Game:
Change: Danielle: Just One (Repos Production)
Change: Jake: Just One (Repos Production)

Best App:
Danielle: Ganz Schön Clever (Schmidt Spiele, Developer: BrettspielWelt GMBH)
Jake: Noch Mal! (Schmidt Spiele, Developer: Outline Development)

Most Innovative Game:
Danielle: Nychtofobia (Pandasaurus Games)
Jake: KeyForge: Call of the Archons/Discover: Lands Unknown (Fantasy Flight Games)

Favorite Games of 2018:
Jake's Picks:
10. Decrypto
Le Scorpion Masqué
Designer: Thomas Dagenais-Lespérance

9. Star Realms : Frontiers
White Wizard Games
Designer: Robert Dougherty, Darwin Kastle

8. Teotihuacan: City of Gods
NSKN Games
Designer: Daniele Tascini

7. Blue Lagoon
Blue Orange
Designer: Reiner Knizia

6. Keyforge: Call of the Archons
Fantasy Flight Games
Designer: Richard Garfield

5. Mars Open: Tabletop Golf
Bellwether Games
Designer:  Dennis Hoyle

4. The Quacks of Quedlinburg
North Star Games
Designer: Wolfgang Warsch

3. Cryptid
Osprey Games
Designer: Hal Duncan, Ruth Veevers

2. Coimbra
eggertspiele
Designer: Flaminia Brasini, Virginio Gigli

1. Escape Tales: The Awakening
Board&Dice
Designer: Jakub Caban, Matt Dembek, Bartosz Idzikowski

Danielle's Picks:
10. Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig
Stonemaier Games
Desinger: Matthew O'Malley, Ben Rosset

9. Spring Meadow
Stronghold Games
Designer: Uwe Rosenberg

8. Coimbra
eggertspiele
Designer: Flaminia Brasini, Virginio Gigli

7. Dice Hospital
Alley Cat Games
Designer: Stan Kordonskiy, Mike Nudd

6. Ganz Schön Clever
Schmidt Spiele
Designer:  Wolfgang Warsch

5. Keyforge: Call of the Archons
Fantasy Flight Games
Designer: Richard Garfield

4. The Quacks of Quedlinburg
North Star Games
Designer: Wolfgang Warsch

3. Welcome To…
Deep Water Games / Blue Cocker Games
Designer: Benoit Turpin

2. Just One
Repos Productions
Designer: Ludovic Roudy, Bruno Sautter

1. Escape Tales: The Awakening
Board&Dice
Designer: Jakub Caban, Matt Dembek, Bartosz Idzikowski

Beer Legislation:
CNN: Supreme Court strikes down Tennessee residency requirement for liquor licenses
Brewbound: US Supreme Court Strikes Down Tennessee Residency Requirement
Brewbound: Maine Governor Signs Self-Distribution, Franchise Reform into Law

Section Timestamps:

01:00 Show Intro, News & Updates

03:00 Games News: BGG’s Convention Tools

04:52 Kickstarter Updates

07:13 Kickstarter: Classy Dice Buddies Part 1

08:20 Kickstarter: BoardGameTables.com Bags & Calendar

12:51 Kickstarter: The Isle of Cats

14:53 Kickstarter: The Alwaysgreen Garden

26:45 Recent Plays: Shikoku

38:05 Recent Plays: Navegador

51:23 Recent Plays: The Hearmees

59:32 Grey Fox Games Sponsorship Spot

60:35 2018 Redux: Superlative Categories

67:27 2018 Redux: Top 10 Games Re-Lists

96:00 Recent Beer Legislation News

104:18 Outro

#103: Dust In The Wings / We're Doomed!

Draft Mechanic Episode # 103: We’re Doomed! Six Pack Review, Dust In The Wings On Tap, Brikks, Carcassonne Für 2, Jake’s Origins Recap, and Our Six Packs of our Favorite Taprooms

Kickstarters:
The Refuge: Terror from the Deep (BGG) (Kickstarter)
Darwinauts (BGG) (Kickstarter)

Recent Plays:
Carcassonne Für 2
2017, Hans im Glück
Designer: Klaus-Jürgen Wrede
Artist: Anne Pätzke, Chris Quilliams

Brikks
2019, Schmidt Spiele/Stronghold Games
Designer: Wolfgang Warsch
Artist: Anne Pätzke

Dust In The Wings
2019, Board&Dice
Designer: Dennis Kirps, Christian Kruchten, Jean-Claude Pellin
Artist: Odysseas Stamoglou

On Tap:
Dust In The Wings
2019, Board&Dice
Designer: Dennis Kirps, Christian Kruchten, Jean-Claude Pellin
Artist: Odysseas Stamoglou

•Diebolt Brewing Company "Mariposa Pale Ale"; Denver, CO, USA
    6% ABV, 39 IBU.
    Pale ale with piney notes.

    •Sycamore Brewing "Rainbow Dust”; Charlotte, NC, USA
    7.1% ABV.
    IPA brewed with 6 hop varietals.

•Almanac Beer Company"Mariposa"; Alameda, CA, USA
    7.2% ABV.
    Dry-hopped sour blonde ale aged in wine barrels with mariposa plums.

    •Hapa’s Brewing Company "Butterfly Wings"; San Jose, CA, USA
    7.8% ABV, 28 IBU.
    Double dry-hopped New England IPA.

    •Solemn Oath Brewery "Butterfly Flashmob"; Naperville, IL, USA
    7.3% ABV, 75 IBU.
   IPA fermented with Belgian yeast.

Six Pack Review:
We’re Doomed!
2019, Breaking Games
Designer: Mike Horton
Artist: Mike Horton

Our Favorite Taprooms:
Jake:
6. Holy Mountain (Seattle, WA)
5. Salud Cerveceria (Charlotte, NC)
4. Edmund’s Oast Brewing Co. (Charleston, SC)
3. Urban Chestnut - The Grove (St. LLLLLLLouis, MO)
2. Taft’s Ale House (Cincinnati, OH)
1. Burial Beer Co. (Asheville, NC)

Danielle:
6. The Olde Mecklenburg Brewery (Charlotte, NC)
5. Revolution Brewpub (Chicago, IL)
4. Asheville Brewing Company (Asheville, NC)
3. Rhinegeist (Cincinnati, OH)
2. Burial Beer Co. (Asheville, NC)
1. Taft’s Ale House (Cincinnati, OH)

Section Timestamps:

01:00 Show Intro, News & Updates

03:30 Mile High Game Guys interviewed Jake for some reason

04:38 Games News: BGG Gen Con GeekPreview

07:15 Kickstarter Updates

09:20 Kickstarter: The Refuge: Terror from the Deep

12:59 Kickstarter: Darwinauts

17:15 Recent Plays: Carcassonne fur 2

23:18 Recent Plays: Brikks

32:52 Recent Plays: Dust in the Wings

40:53 On Tap: Dust in the Wings

44:50 Grey Fox Games Sponsorship Spot

45:36 Six-Pack Review: We’re Doomed!

57:20 Jake’s Origins Recap

70:47 Six Pack: Our Favorite Taprooms

102:34 Final Round: What Makes a Great Taproom?

109:32 Outro