Boardgames To Go
By Mark Johnson
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Podcast Description
Mark Johnson's occasional & opinionated podcast about family strategy boardgames.
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BGTG 123 - Outdoor Boardgaming (with Dave Gullett) | Notice: I'm in the process of moving this blog over to Boardgamegeek. I'm still running the show, and the podcast will still be available through your normal subscription (iTunes, or whatever)--I'm just using a different host on the internet. This move i | 5/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 122 - SR & Feedback (Würfel Bohnanza & Lords of Waterdeep) | Filling in the gaps between episodes with guests, I like to post episodes that let me simply talk about some games I've played lately, offer scattered opinions & thoughts about them, and then share some of the podcast's feedback. My listeners often h | 4/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 121 - Secondhand Games (with Greg Pettit) | I'm still trying to keep podcasts coming out more frequently, and now I've got friends who are actively pushing me along. That can only help! In this case, it's Greg Pettit, who I thought of immediately when I decided to do a podcast about secondhand gam | 4/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 120 - Favorites of 2011 (A Few Acres of Snow, Pergamon) | What?! Two episodes in the same month?! When was the last time I did that? Unfortunately, it's been a while. But as I say during the early part of this podcast, I've got a little more free time now, and I hope I can use it to publish podcasts a bit more | 3/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 119 - Euro Train Games (with Dave Arnott) | Train games mean something special, at least to train gamers. Usually they involve the 18XX system and hours of deep gameplay. Oddly, though, sometimes it means a very light game such as Express. Within hobby gaming, the term predates the German style of | 3/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 118 - Post BGG.con 2011 (with Greg Pettit) | This is a very long episode, but no one ever complains about length so I decided to keep it intact rather than splitting it into two shorter shows.Just as he did last year, my buddy Greg Pettit went to Bgg.con in 2011 and joined me on the podcast afterwar | 12/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 117 - Long Games (with Ryan Wheeler) | First of all, welcome to anyone who discovered (or re-discovered?) my show after hearing my guest appearance on boardgame podcast, Ludology. I joined Ryan Sturm over Skype (when Geoff Engelstein was snowed in) to discuss the difference between 2-player an | 11/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 116 - Essen Anticipation 2011 | I'm not even late! Not quite, anyway. The annual small (& large) game publisher extravaganza in Essen, Germany is set to start with the press day about 24 hours after I post this, and the doors open to the public the day after that. Four days of recor | 10/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 115 - Spiel des Jahres, Then & Now | The recent announcement of the Spiel des Jahres winner, Qwirkle, gave me the good idea to play that game again...as well as the excuse to talk about a handful of other SdJ winners I've played "recently." Ok, not really that recent, but there was a game pa | 7/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 114 - Party Games for Shy Boardgamers (with David Gullett) | You may think it's odd or ridiculous that a guy who hosts a boardgame podcast feels uncomfortable in some social party games due to the putting-yourself-out-there part of them. But that's exactly how I feel, and my suspicion is that other boardgamers may | 7/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 113 - European Vacation | Part of what's kept me away from the microphone lately has been some overseas travel. First was our family T. O. A. L. (Trip of a Lifetime) to Germany & Italy. Then, surprisingly, a return visit to Europe shortly thereafter by just me because of a ne | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 112 - Five-Player Games (with Dave O'Connor) | Here's a podcast that I recorded with my buddy DaveO last summer. You probably know that I prefer lighter games. Well, DaveO likes the heavier stuff (as well as some quicker games). We got to talking about that, and the conversation drifted to our differ | 1/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 111 - Post BGGcon (with Greg Pettit) [second try] | I'm posting this show again to get the correct version in the RSS/iTunes feed. (An earlier posting of this show erroneously copied an earlier episode.) Sorry for the trouble. -Mark | 11/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 111 - Post BGGcon (with Greg Pettit) | After my annual "Essen anticipation" show, perhaps it's only natural that some listeners ask me for a post-Essen show where I can share my opinions about the new games after I've played them. The only trouble is that it will take me some months to get al | 11/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 110 - All About the Easy Play games (with David Arnott) | At long last, another "All About" show, the format in which a guest and I talk through a particular game in great detail. This time we tried something a little different, discussing the entire series of fast-playing games in small, square boxes called Ea | 11/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 109 - Essen Anticipation 2010 Part 2 | Whew! I hurried up and recorded Part 2 of my annual "Essen Anticipation" episode so I could get it posted before the Spieltage itself. Hopefully some of the people who wanted to listen to it before the show opens (even when traveling there?) will get it | 10/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 108 - Essen Anticipation 2010 Part 1 (with Scott Alden & Lincoln Damerst) | It's that time again. Time for excitement about the Spiel game expo (Internationale Spieltage) held in Essen, Germany every October. Even when my fall season gets busy with work, kids' school, and other activities, there's always this time when I start l | 10/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 107 - Handcrafted Games (with Lincoln Damerst and Greg Wilzbach) | I grabbed two of my artistically talented friends (Greg did my podcast logo!) and put them on the microphone to talk about their hobby-within-a-hobby: handcrafted games. These guys have both taken a known, existing boardgame or two and hand made their ow | 9/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 106 - SR & Feedback (Super Slapshot, Age of Industry) | At long last, another episode, and a long-winded one at that! These session report & feedback shows are supposed to be easier episodes for me to bang out--I need to remember that! Doing them more often will work through the response backlog and make | 8/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 104 - Boardgame Themes (with Greg Pettit) | Themes in boardgames are a favorite subject of mine. I'm sure I've said before how interested I am in the themes these games of ours have. Some themes instantly attract me to a game, while others are an immediate turn-off. When I'm playing a game, I part | 6/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 105 - Games of the Decade (with Dave Arnott) | Now that the first decade of the new century & millennium is past, Dave & I reflected on what that ten-year span meant for boardgames. Back in late 2007 he & I recorded a "decade+1" retrospective for episode #75, but that had a little differe | 5/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 103 - SR & Feedback (Pandemic On the Brink, Caylus Magna Carta, Patrician) | First of all, please consider bidding in my latest Geeklist auction. It ends mid-day on March 24, and has some great, unusual, and/or out-of-print games. Titles like Zoff in Buffalo, Basari (the good version!), Krieg und Frieden, and a pair of games from | 3/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 102 - Games Played in 2009 (with "Davebo" Gullett) | For more than a decade now I've kept track of the games I played over the course of a year. For nearly as long I've reviewed those lists after each year passed. First I posted on Usenet or my own website, later boardgame mailing lists, my blog, and latel | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 101 SR & Feedback (Dog, Keltis Way of the Stone, Sorry Sliders) | First show of the new year, and it's another session report & feedback episode. Though I originally just picked three games I played recently & wanted to discuss, as I prepped for the show I found a number of related points between them. That's w | 2/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 100 SR & Feedback (Tobago, Numeri, Polar Derby) | Yea! When I started this podcast nearly five years ago, I had no idea I'd still be doing it now. The pace certainly slowed down from the early days, but I'm so pleased to have stumbled across the finish line to episode 100! Except that this isn't really | 1/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 99 - Ten Years of Essens | Chris left a comment after the previous podcast (anticipating this year's Essen), asking what games were my favorites from past Essens. That was the idea behind this show--my favorites, BGG's favorites, and what seemed liked the favorites at the time (Fa | 11/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 97 - All About Brass (with Stephanie Kelleher) | If you pay attention to the episode numbers, you'll see this one actually belongs before the previous show about Essen. I only needed to hurry that one out in time for the big game fair in Germany this week. I'd recorded this episode focusing on Martin W | 10/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 98 - Essen Anticipation 2009 | As before, I've managed to squeeze in a show just before the Essen game fair Spiel that shares my anticipation for the event and a number of games. Nope, I'm not going there, just living vicariously through the preview information about the games about to | 10/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 96 - Translations, Editions, and Revisions (with David Gullett) | Let me clear about this--most of the explanation for the delay in this podcast (recorded almost two months ago) is simply that I never got around to finishing & posting it. Part of that is because the show is longer than usual--longer than fits on a | 8/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 95 - SR & Feedback (Container & Chicago Express) | Whoops! I almost let two months go by since my last show. I've been playing plenty of games, so here's a session report & feedback show to describe my inability to play economic games with any skill! But as badly as I've been doing at them, I'm still | 7/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 94 - Are any of our games Classics? (with Greg Pettit) | It comes up from time to time in discussions about our hobby--will any of the games we're playing now achieve "classic" status? There are commercial classics like Monopoly, Risk, and Scrabble, as well as cultural or timeless classics like Go, Chess, and | 5/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 93 - All About Big City (with Eric Burgess) | It must be just about time for a boring show with just me on the mic, but you're spared once again! This time I have fellow podcaster Eric "Boardgame Babylon" Burgess with me to talk about another of my favorites, Big City. Turns out it's one of his, too | 4/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 92 - Game Awards (with Dave Arnott) | Part 2 of my discussion with Dave Arnott was about game awards. There are a bunch of them, from the Spiel des Jahres to the Golden Geeks. We talk about a whole range of them, and also consider how game awards are similar or different from other artistic | 3/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 91 - 2008 Year in Review (with Dave Arnott) | What started as one show with two topics ended up being two shows. This is the first part, where Dave Arnott and I reflect on 2008. That means talking about our games played, totals as well as "fives & dimes." We also consider which were are favorite | 3/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 90 - Veto-Proof Game Night (with Ryan Wheeler) | My buddy Ryan Wheeler is part of our local game group, the Santa Clarita Boardgamers. In fact, he's the driving force of the group, hosting most of the game nights, always adding to his collection, and infecting the rest of us with his enthusiasm and sens | 3/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 89 - SR & Feedback (Viva Topo!, Slamwich, Tief auf Tier) | Before I can post any new shows, I wanted to clear the decks for some accumulated feedback, as well as follow-through on my previous blog entry about family gaming over the holidays. Again I brought I bag full of specially chosen games, and again we playe | 2/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 88 - Dominion, Arkham Horror, Marrakech, and En Garde | This is a session report & feedback show . . . but without the feedback. The reason for that is that I had to record this podcast in the car. I say had to because I spent too much of my at-home podcasting time playing Dominion instead! I started playi | 11/20/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 87 - Essen Anticipation 2008 | As promised, here's my annual episode running through the new Essen games that have caught my eye. There are games I'm pretty sure I want, others I'm pretty sure I don't, and a whole bunch I need to know more about first (hopefully by playing).Essen opens | 10/23/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 86 - All About Harry's Grand Slam Baseball (with David Gullett) | As promised, here's another All About show, my first in a long time. The way these shows work, I usually employ a guest, and the two of us talk about one game in great detail. This time, that guest is David Gullett, who you've heard on BGTG before, and th | 9/12/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 85 - SR & Feedback (with Rattlesnake, XiangQi, Citadels, Manila, and Tribune) | You're in luck. The carcast I recorded earlier about some games played at a recent Games Day was also destroyed accidentally, so I just had to re-record it at home. This way it ends up with better audio quality, and I got to tack on some recent email feed | 9/7/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 84 - Martin Wallace games (Brass, Tinner's Trail, Byzantium) | Two podcasts in less than a week?! Weird, I know. Not likely to be repeated soon, either. I just figured I might as well jump on the opportunity when I could.Also, I'd mentioned on this blog a couple weeks before that I was thinking of sharing my (changin | 8/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 83 - Aug 10, 2008 - Re-Introduction with my "New" Top Ten | Though I'm too chicken to listen to it, anyone that wants to can go back into my archives to download BGTG #1. In that episode I tried to give an introduction to myself, describing my own likes & dislikes in games. It always helps to know those things | 8/10/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 82 - June 17, 2008 - SR & Feedback (Hamburgum & Streetcar) | Uh...yeah. At the start of this show I say I recorded it back on May 29. Which I did. Then I labeled the file and blog entry June 17, because that's when I edited it. Except that I ran into a technical glitch, and I only just now resolved all of that to g | 7/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 81 - May 23, 2008 - Games of 2007 | Memorial Day Weekend is pretty late for a 2007 recap show, but here it is anyway. I said I'd follow this show up sometime with another blog entry to have a written summary of my games played, too. I found that I enjoyed re-reading my reports from earlier | 5/23/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 80 - Apr 29, 2008 - SR & Feedback (Galaxy Trucker & Key Harvest) | Finishing up my feedback backlog (my feedbacklog?), here's a show with audio comments from my listeners. Does that include Mr. Reliable for audio feedback, Mark Jackson? Sure does! He's here, along with a couple other guys that offer some good comments or | 5/3/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 79 - SR & Feedback (Play By Web games) | Waaaaay back in show #3 I covered play-by-web boardgaming. I've touched on it since then, and for this show it's "where" my game session took place. That is, on the web, against a variety of friends, playing a variety of games. I spend the most time talki | 4/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 78 - Back in the saddle | I still need to do a feedback show to go through a backlog, but today I couldn't wait for that. You see, I've had a break in my busy schedule--or at least an attitude adjustment after a recent vacation--and just needed to record a podcast again. I'm playi | 3/30/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 77 - Recent Game Rambling | No, I haven't disappeared again, and this little episode is meant to prove it. I have more to say about other games, my year in review, my new top ten list, and a backlog of feedback to work through. But this is what I could get out right now, and it'll h | 1/18/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 76 - Summertime Games | A quick, little podcast this time, one from my "archives." By that I mean this was one of those shows I recorded last summer, when I wasn't uploading any podcasts. At least one of those recordings was unceremoniously dumped, but this is one I still had ly | 11/21/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 75 - Decade+1 Retrospective (with Dave Arnott) | Last year, my buddy Dave Arnott and I talked on the phone about how we'd now been in the hobby for a decade. In that time the hobby was in many ways the same, but the interesting parts were the differences. Now we have Boardgamegeek, do a lot less oversea | 11/9/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 74 - Post-Essen 2007 (with Mike Siggins) | Once again I'm pleased to bring Mike Siggins' boardgame commentary to podcasting with our annual show recapping his observations about Essen. Mike writes some of these in his column on Funagain.com, called The Gamer's Notebook, and that piece is a good co | 11/3/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 73 - Oct 15, 2007 - Pre-Essen 2007 | I'm just squeezing this show in before the Spiel game fair starts in Essen later this week. If you're like me you've been reading the lists and rumors about new games with great anticipation . . . even though you aren't attending Essen in-person. This yea | 10/15/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 72 - Oct 10, 2007 - Where are all the kids? | Here's one of those shows I recorded long ago, this one back in April. I went over to David Gullett's house, and we played some games with our kids. And that was also the subject of the podcast--playing games with kids. Over a year ago I posted an earlier | 10/11/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 71 - Sept. 19, 2007 - SR & Feedback (Settlers Dice, Canal Mania, Dschungelschatz) | A chance to talk about some games I've played recently: one light game, one gamer game, and one kid game. I also talk about ordering overseas using Amazon.de, a new experience for me. Plus some recent feedback.-MarkLinksSettlers of Catan Dice GameCanal Ma | 9/22/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 70 - Sep 9, 2007 - Light Wargames | Did ya miss me?Sorry it's been so long! Doug Garrett smoked me out recently, interviewing me for his podcast, and giving me the little encouragement/kick to get podcasting again. I've got at least two more podcasts recorded from some time ago, but I wante | 9/9/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 69 - Mar 21, 2007 - Adlung Spiele Games | Here's a solo show focusing on a particular publisher, Adlung Spiele. These are the guys (or maybe just one guy with some freelance authors & illustrators) that produce one of my favorites, Verräter, and other small card games. Most of them are only s | 3/27/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 68 - Feb 12, 2007 - Looking Back at 2006, Forward into 2007 | A quick show with my thoughts on boardgaming over the past year, and what I anticipate for 2007. These retrospectives are a little harder to do without stats . . . but then what would stats tell me, anyway? For me, the real point is to talk about games th | 2/16/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 67 - Jan 1, 2007 - Pretty, Wooden Abstracts | I've surprised myself by becoming more and more interested in abstract games over the years. However, as I discuss in this show, that's due to discovering a wide range of abstracts that don't make my head hurt. You see, I've never been a fan of chess, go, | 1/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 66 - Dec. 8, 2006 - Thanksgiving Leftovers (Qwirkle, Winner's Circle, Harry's Grand Slam Baseball, Hyle7, Make Five) & Fee | Whew! The show is now posted. You know that getting a podcast out during this part of the year is tricky for me (aren't we all busy with the holidays?), and with the backlog of material it has turned out to be a biggie. Good news, I hope. The last time I | 1/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 65 - Oct 27, 2006 - Post-Essen Show (with Mike Siggins) | As promised, here's the post-Essen followup show. A few weeks ago I talked about the games I was interested in hearing more about at Essen. Now here's Mike Siggins, coming on the podcast to give BGTG listeners some firsthand accounts of his time at the fa | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 63 - Oct 15, 2006 - Pre-Essen Show | Just like last year, I can't help sharing some of my excitement about the Essen game fair happening this week . . . even though I won't be going. I was lucky enough to be there in 2003, something that may never happen again. But you don't have to GO to Es | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 62 - Sep 18, 2006 - Dialing it Back | Okay.That was a long break, wasn't it? Too long? I think so. In other words, I haven't quit the podcast. I want to do more... I will do more. But in this episode I explain how a combination of internal choices & external pressures has led to this majo | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 61 - Aug 2, 2006 - Friendly, Local Game Stores | Whew! Finally a new show. Like the last time I (unintentionally) took a little time off from the podcast, it was a little hard to get back into the swing of things. Last time I thought a simpler Session Report and Feedback show was the way to get back int | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 64 - Oct 23, 2006 - SR & Feedback show (Thurn und Taxis, Gene Pool, Wallamoppi) | I'm starting to catch up with some older feedback as I begin to do more Session Report shows again. I had a bit of a cold while recording this one, but I hope it still sounds ok. And I sure hope I edited out all the times I coughed!Something I forgot to m | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 58 - May 17, 2006 - SR: Ticket to Ride: Märklin, Buy Low Sell High, Dschunke and Feedback | See? I told you I'd get a show out this week. Just had to ignore my family to get it done. (I'm kidding.) Don't know if I will, but I think I should try to knock out a couple more semi-smaller shows featuring session reports and some feedback. We'll see. | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 60 - June 14, 2006 David Arnott Leftovers about Medici, Elasund (and Hacienda) | During the All About Vinci show, my guest Dave Arnott thought to bring up something we'd failed to cover during our previous All About show, covering Medici almost a year ago. Rather than include that in the Vinci show, I clipped that part out to be used | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 59 - June 2, 2006 - SR: Settlers of the Stone Age, Wyatt Earp, Safeknacker, Modern Art, Pirate's Cove (and Feedback) | Once again, I hope people are reading the blog as well as listening to the podcast. Because I often think of things I missed after the podcast is finished. (It's not just me--the host for the highly recommended BBC Radio 4 program In Our Time does the sam | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 56 - April 15, 2006 - All About Vinci (with David Arnott) | I was on vacation last week. No, not at the Gathering of Friends, I was in Hawaii with my family. I thought I might catch up on a little podcasting backlog or at least spruce up the web page. Instead, I ended up doing what I should've planned on all along | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 57 - April 30, 2006 - Ordering Overseas | Here's a shorter show that I've wanted to do for a while, talking about how I've ordered games from overseas. Up until just recently that always meant Germany--albeit from a few different webshops--but last week I placed an order through a Dutch website, | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 55 - April 4, 2006 - "Dark Johnson" Interview (with David Arnott) | Dave Arnott sprung this show on me, turning the tables on the interviewer. His plan was to expose me for the sinister, heartless gamer that I really am. Of course, the plan backfired and I come out smelling like a rose. :)No, he just asks some fun questio | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 54 - April 1, 2006 - New Gamer and Gamer Dads (with David Gullett) | [A technical complication meant this show took the longest to pull together, but I'm pleased to say it worked completely. If you want to read the audio editing story, check out the boardgamepodcasters mailing list. -Mark]This is a combination show, an int | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 53b - Mar 6, 2006 - All About La Città (with Jonathan Degann, part 2) | Here's part two of the podcast, the one where Jonathan and I get into La Città in detail. By the way, be sure to check out Eric Burgess' podcast Boardgame Babylon, which also features periodic episodes where he covers a single game in depth. In fact, he | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 53a - Mar 6, 2006 - All About La Città (with Jonathan Degann, part 1) | Finally! Another All About show, which are the sort that everyone seems to love best. This one was recorded with Jonathan Degann, who you may know from his opinions on mailing lists, his Game Theory 101 articles on The Games Journal, or most recently his | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 52 - Feb.26, 2006 - SR: Vinci, Wallenstein, Hansa, and Tikal (all play-by-web) and Feedback | Back to another Session Report & Feedback show, and back to my usual recording setup. This show focuses almost exclusively on play-by-web games, sharing some news about them, and talking about a few of the titles I played recently. Plus the feedback, | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 51 - Feb.13, 2006 - SR: Jenseits von Theben, Vegas Showdown, Bolide, Zahltag, and Feedback | This episode became my white whale. It was a struggle to get it recorded, edited, partially scrapped & re-recorded, and finally posted. Towards the end, I have to admit that I just gave up a little bit, posting it even though I'm still not happy with | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 50 - Jan 24, 2006 - A Look Back at Essen (with Mike Siggins) | My fiftieth podcast! Wow, I really wasn't sure I'd ever make it this far when I started last March. The show has morphed a bit over time, mostly in response to some limitatation I want to address or opportunity I want to seize. The feedback has been prett | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 49 - Jan 21, 2006 - Five & Dime Lists (with Mark JACKson) | Though it's happening less often nowadays, in the past people have confused Mark Jackson and myself. Though that's mostly due to the similarity in our names, we have some similar tastes in games (e.g. original Entdecker), we've crossed paths a few times, | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 47 - Jan. 8, 2006 - Behind the Scenes at BGTG | This is more or less an update of the "intro to podcasting" show I did way back in May, 2005. It's especially intended for people who might start up their own boardgame podcast--whether they were thinking about it already or not! It might also be of some | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 48 - Jan. 14, 2006 - Retrospective on 2005 | For a long time I've posted a retrospective on my past year in the hobby, first to rec.games.board, then spielfrieks, then my blog. This year, of course, I've shifted it over to a podcast episode. That's the first big shift. The other comes from not havin | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 46b - January 2, 2006 - SR: Lots of games, and Feedback | Here's part two of this episode, just the feedback portion. Keep 'em coming! :-) It's good to be back.-MarkLinksSkype (my username is BoardgamesToGo)Naturelich Games (blog)(what did I miss?) | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 46a - January 2, 2006 - SR: Lots of games, and Feedback | Yea! I finally got to record a new podcast! I needed to do a fair bit of catching up, which meant the podcast got to be pretty long. With that in mind I split it into two parts. This is the first part, about an hour of me catching up for lost time and tal | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 44b - Nov.23, 2005 - My own BGG.con impressions (part 2) | [Nothing went wrong when I published the last show without a full proof-listen beforehand, so I'm doing it again. This isn't supposed to be my regular practice, but the holidays are upon us, family is coming to visit, and I fear if I don't publish this sh | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 45 - Dec. 2, 2005 - My days with Steve Jackson Games | The last in the series of BGG.con-related shows, this one's only connection is the fact that I first tried to record it on the way to BGG.con . . . and the fact that it features Texas (Austin, this time). That original recording took place while on layove | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 43 - Nov. 6, 2005 - All About Euphrat & Tigris (with Greg Pettit) | At last! Another All About show, and one I'd been planning to do for some time. My buddy and BGG.com roommate Greg Pettit has played the game a fair bit, and shared his opinions about the game's strategies, reputation, graphic production, and more. Also, | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 44a - Nov.16, 2005 - My own BGG.con impressions (part 1) | [Against my better judgment, I'm posting this show before I've had a chance to listen to it. Someone please email me if there's something amiss, and I'll correct it ASAP. I don't have the opportunity to go through my normal recording-proofing-publishing r | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 41 - Oct. 31, 2005 - SR: Hansa, Roller Coaster Tycoon (plus Feedback) | A bit of a delay last week, with family visiting and a conference. Just time enough to squeeze in one more show before BGG.con, which is in three days! This session report show enabled me to work through my backlog of feedback, positioned at the end of th | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 42 - Nov. 6, 2005 - Boardgamegeek.Con (with Aldie and Derk) | My listeners will know that I wanted to record something at Boardgamegeek.con, and I finally got that chance in the final hours of the event: an interview with Aldie and Derk about the convention itself. Aldie had agreed to it as early as Friday, but thos | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 40 - Oct. 16, 2005 - SR: Air Baron & Around the World in 80 Days (plus Feedback) | At last! A session report show! And these days, what's even more important to me than the session report about a couple games is the feedback section. I'm so pleased to get as much feedback as I do, and it's great fun to read & reply to it. Per my new | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 39 - Oct. 9, 2005 - Essen Anticipation | No, I'm not going to Essen this year. But I managed to go once, back in 2003, and not going never stopped me from getting excited about the event. In this podcast I talk about what observed myself when I got to attend, explain why I (normally) don't get w | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 37 - September 25, 2005 - Mark's Wargaming Credentials | Although this podcast will never be about wargames in a substantial way, I still play the occasional wargame and still consider myself a wargamer. Just an infrequent one. :-) Even though I don't play them so often, my interest in military history remains | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 38A - Oct 4, 2005 - Euro/Wargame Hybrids (with Mike Siggins) | Listener, Siggins.Siggins, Listener.The oldtimers in this hobby will recognize the name instantly, as well as my play on Ken Tidwell's introduction of Mike Siggins to his new readers on the Internet. Mike was one of the earliest writers and savvy reviewer | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 38B - Oct 4, 2005 - Euro/Wargame Hybrids (with Mike Siggins) | Mike suggested his own topic for this podcast: the elusive hybrid game that combines elements of Euro games (short play, elegant mechanics, nice bits) and wargames (real history, maybe nice maps). To a large degree, the games we want to talk about don't y | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 35 - SR: Kablamo, Bootleggers, Indus | I think this is settling into a standard format for this podcast: an audio session report show with feedback/letters section tacked onto the end for BGTG-aholics. (The other standard format is the theme show, especially the All About shows featuring just | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 36B - All About Verräter (with Greg Aleknevicus - Part 2) | Here's part 2 of the show, the longer part that is the in-depth treatment of Verräter. You know, I'd love to get a translation of Casasola Merkle's "Entsehung" page for the game. It tells the story of the game's development. I can understand part of it u | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 36A - All About Verräter (with Greg Aleknevicus - Part 1) | You can tell from the date that I've had this show recorded for a week already. The "All About" shows are often my most well-regarded . . . by both my listeners and myself! So you know I didn't want to sit on this one, especially for one of my favorite ga | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 32 - SR: Torres online, Fjords, Carcassonne:Princess & Dragon | Though I've missed the past three Santa Clarita Boardgamers sessions (drat), I've still had a few opportunities for playing games. Here are some opinions about those, including a new play-by-web offering, Torres.Also, I hadn't included any email (or voice | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 30 - Game Presentation with Greg Wilzbach | This was a fun show to record, sitting down with the local gamer & friend who designed the BGTG logo(s). After some general chat about how Greg's background, how he got into the hobby, and joined the Santa Clarita Boardgamers, we got into the main the | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 33 - Local game groups (with Ryan Wheeler) | Ryan shows up in lots of my session reports because he's the most constant figure at Santa Clarita Boardgamer sessions. He and his wife Erin host most of our game nights. With that in mind, this show was intended to be about the "care & feeding" of lo | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 31 - All About Medici (with Dave Arnott) | Another All About show, another with a second voice, and another long one! This should be interesting... Though I normally prefer shows to be shorter, perhaps only half as long, this is also the kind of show I'd like to listen to. But does anyone else fee | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 29 -The Wife Show | It's been a long time coming, but I finally got my wife Candy to join me for a podcast. Considering how popular and everlasting the question "How can I get my wife/girlfriend to play games with me?" is on discussion boards, this podcast should be of inter | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 28 - SR: Way Out West, TransEuropa | Sorry for the nearly 2-week break between podcasts. That wasn't my plan, but life sometimes gets busy. Fortunately, half of that was for a fun weekend spent winetasting with Candy when the kids stayed with my folks. We went to the Santa Ynez valley area m | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 27 - SR: Gygés, Geschenkt, M, Raceway 57, Tower of Babel, Exxtra, Medici | A little bit longer podcast this time, as we played lots of games and had some interesting discussion to boot! Plus, I responded to feedback at the beginning of the show, something I hadn't done for a while.By the way, one of the reasons we played Tower o | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 26 - Microgames | Finally! I've wanted to get back to a theme show for a while, and one on microgames has been on my to-do list. As I say in the show, this is really sort of training me for doing some shows about wargames. I'm not ready to do that yet, but it will come som | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 24 - July 9, 2005 - Two-player games SR: Jambo, Starship Catan, Richelieu, Flowerpower | This show was something of a hybrid, an audio session report that had an overall theme: 2-player games. That's because the most recent Santa Clarita Boardgamer session just had two players! Myself and BGTG logo designer Greg Wilzbach. We got in some good | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG 25 - July 18, 2005 - SoCal Games Day 22 (with Sam) | Over a week between podcasts, rats! Well, sometimes our lives get busy, right? Between a crunch at work . . . and a literal crunch at home (car crash--everyone's ok), there wasn't a chance to record anything recently. Hopefully I'll catch up soon.First up | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG - July 5, 2005 - SR: Smarty Party Jr., Attacktix, Geschenkt, Oceania | Once again I included my son Sam on the podcast. This show is an audio session report for some games played with family over the 4th of July holiday weekend. So it's got some angst about getting family to play the sort of games I like, trying to pick thin | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG - June 30, 2005 (All about Entdecker) | I've been wanting to do this for a while, talk for an entire show about one game. And now I've done it, about one of my very favorite games Entdecker. I suppose this kind of show is really something of an audio game review, though I didn't plan it that wa | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG - June 28, 2005 (Boardgame resolutions) | A quick little show, the shortest I've done in a while. Mostly I just struck while the iron was hot, but with a surge in subscribers due to podcast support in iTunes, it's proven to be timely. Welcome new listeners! As I say in the little audio aside, I e | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG - June 27, 2005 SR: Grand Canyon, Victory & Honor, Tonga Bonga, Pylos | I wonder how long it will be until I feel like I know what I'm doing?! Seems like every podcast I learn a little something new. This time it's as simple as making the podcast and blog post title with the games listed NOT in the order we played them. Other | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG - June 14, 2005 (My daughter's take on boardgames) | Anyone who's a parent of multiple kids knows this rule: be fair to all of them. So after Sam got a chance to be on my podcast, talking about the games he likes, I knew that Molly deserved a turn. Actually, she had wanted to do it first! Molly just finishe | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG - June 24, 2005 (Boardgames and the Internet) | After a trio of shows sharing the microphone with someone else, I’m back to doing my solo show. That will still be what I do most of the time, I think. It’s back to a theme show, too, focusing on the history of Internet communication on our hobby. Mai | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG - June 11, 2005 (SR: Tonga Bonga, Crokinole, Fairy Tale) | Last week I joked that Tonga Bonga would be our Game of the Month. Here we were, playing it again--by request! Maybe it's meant to be. This time was different in that it was a 3-player game, and I won big instead of losing big. Then I got to try Ryan & | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG - June 11, 2005 (My son's take on board and video games) | Here's another show where I have someone else recording with me. Only this time it's my son Sam, and he's plugged in locally to the same laptop. (Technical aside: this was incredibly easy, just patching in a second microphone/headset using a five-dollar a | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG - June 11, 2005 (Mike Mayer and Robo Rally) | You asked for a second voice on Boardgames To Go? You got it!Ok, only some of you asked for a second voice. And ok, I won't have someone like Mike Mayer joining me on the podcast regularly. In fact, right now I think I'll still do the majority of the show | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG - June 5, 2005 (SR: Tonga Bonga, David & Goliath, Oltremare, Tichu, Oceania) | A nice, big session report. Last week's session wasn't any longer than the previous one, but instead of playing one big game (Struggle of Empires), this time we played several shorter games. These are always my favorite game nights, though I can handle a | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG - June 4, 2005 (Mark's boardgaming biography) | A show all about me. I hope this is still of interest to everyone--I figure it's important to know where your writer/podcaster is coming from. Once you're calibrated on who I am, you can interpret my reactions to different games a bit better. I start at t | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG - May 30, 2005 (SR: Struggle of Empires, Alhambra, Flowerpower) | I had a few technical challenges with this show--hopefully none of them come through in the recording. (I did the intro on my little Treo phone/PDA thingie, then pasted it into my normal Audacity recording software. I hadn't noticed that this fiddled with | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG - May 28, 2005 (Intro to Strategy Boardgames) | This show may not be as interesting to listeners who have been enjoying this hobby for a while. But as I mentioned in a previous show, I think it's important that this podcast have one show intended for newcomers. Though there are at least a couple more b | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG - May 22, 2005 (Game Awards) | A theme show I'd mentioned earlier, focusing on the ideas behind game awards. I was consciously trying to avoid just making this a rundown of the various awards, trying to get a little behind the purpose and motivation for game awards. Was I successful? P | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG - May 16, 2005 (Conventions, part 2) | Finishing up the earlier theme show about conventions, this time covering invitational events like The Gathering of Friends and Gulf Games, then wrapping up with some of the smallest but best events, public Games Days.At the end I mention the next theme s | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG - May 2, 2005 (SR: Settlers, Dancing Dice, Basari, Ra, San Marco, Xe Queo!, Ingenious, Star Wars Ep. 2 Card Game, Kapitan | Oof, that's a long title for this post. But I wanted that top line to tell people what's in this podcast, so that can see it in their RSS reader or podcast aggregator. This entire show is an audio session report. As you'll hear in the podcast, I received | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG - May 14, 2005 (SR: Crokinole, Schrille Stille, Star Wars Attack of the Clones, Puerto Rico, Traumfabrik) | This audio session report mostly talks about the games I played at two recent Santa Clarita Boardgamer sessions. What do people listen for in an audio session report, anyway? I don't spend any time explaining the mechanics of the games. That's not a good | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG - May 12, 2005 (Listening to podcasts--and recording them!) | June 11 update: I've switched over to 32kbps MP3 exporting out of Audacity, rather than the 48 I was originally using. For speech the difference in audio quality ought to be barely detectable, while the filesize savings are nothing to sneeze at (around 25 | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG - May 10, 2005 (Conventions, part 1) | Finally did the show about conventions, and I didn't even finish what I wanted to say. But I limited myself to a half-hour, just the same. I'll wrap up in a future show, though that will probably not be my next show. In this one I start at the top, discus | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG - April 16, 2005 (Game of the Month) | Ok, with four of these shows "in the can," it's time to go live with this podcast/blog. Right after I upload this show I'll spread the word online and we'll see what happens. Naturally I hope people like it, but I'd certainly understand some . . . ahem . | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG - April 22, 2005 (Family boardgaming) | This show is all about playing boardgames with your family. Well, with my family. A family who isn't as blown away by strategy boardgames as I am, they still humor me from time to time. They even enjoy some games now and then. The small audio session repo | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Boardgames To Go - First podcast! | This first one is a little rough, both because I was working with a poor microphone and mistakenly thought I should keep my voice relatively flat. But at least it's a start! At the end I wrap up with an audio session report from the Santa Clarita Boardgam | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG - April 2, 2005 (Play-by-Web Games) | In the third show I describe a variety of online boardgames I like to play, using the play-by-web (or email) format, as opposed to a realtime format like Brettspielwelt or the Days of Wonder site. I also rifle through a session report of the Santa Clarita | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BGTG - March 29, 2005 | Second try, and this time I've got a slightly better microphone and less monotone voice. :) I talk about why I'm doing a podcast at all, why I hope there will be more boardgaming podcasts soon, and a session report for games played with my old group, the | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Great Podcast About Boardgames
If you are enjoying the current renaissance of boardgames (both Euro and American), this is a MUST listen. Mark is very consistent and professional in his approach to this podcast. All of his shows are well-researched and carefully produced. It comes through loud and clear that he enjoys doing these podcasts and he enjoys his hobby (and he's a good family-man). I like the All About shows and the shows where he is interviewing other gamers. The Mike Siggins show is a gem. In particular, I can relate to Mark's challenges of sharing his hobby with his family, from having your non-gamer wife observe her shrinking shelf space to getting annoyed with your own kids when they don't have their "heads in the game." Great job, Mark...keep'em coming.
Thoughtful and interesting commentary
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