The last of the Meeplefest podcasts - and Matt Leacock joins in on the conversation to put in his $.02 about design, publishing, etc.  Also at the table are designers Susan McKinley Ross, Chris Handy, and Scott Caputo.

Then Shelley and I do quick reviews of The Major Four of Heizei by the same designer as Inotaizu (which is now due out at Essen!), and Kunstmarkt.

More conversations from Meeplefest with Susan McKinley Ross of Qwirkle and Qwirkle Cubes joining the roundtable discussion of design and publishing, then Shelley and I take the mics for reviews of Dice Town and Inotaizu.

Saturday at Meeplefest, Part 1 is then followed by a quick review of the new Vainglorious Games release Armorica.

On the mics this week are Kevin, Ric, Erik, Scott, Chris, Paul & Shelley.  Then we are joined by Melissa, Jenn, and Debbie.  We talk board game publishing and the wives get involved in a discussion of what they see happening in their designer husband's lives.

Games discussed at the table:
Hamsterrolle
Golden City
Kachina (Scott's game)
Long Shot (Chris's game)
Penny for My Thoughts (Paul's game)

Review - Armorica

An episode in 3 parts:

Part 1 - The second 1/2 of our Friday Meeplefest discussion where many games are briefly discussed.  Those include
Die Macher
Power Struggle
Black Vienna
Deduce or Die
Code 777
Egizia
Armorica
Founding Fathers
Forbidden Island

On the mics are Paul, Greg, Simon, Ric, Chris, Brett, Debbie, Shara, and Jake

Part 2 - A review by Shelley and me of AEG's Adventurers

Part 3 - A review by me of AEG's Infinite City.

Enjoy!

The first of this year's roundtables from Meeplefest, and on this show the group has much to discuss:
Dixit & the Spiel des Jahres
Dominion
Thunderstone
Carcassonne
Ticket to Ride
Board Games on e-devices
RPGs and PDFs
Games in Teaching

Joining me around the table are Simon Hunt, Ric Bretschneider, Brett Hardin, Chris Handy, Erik Oliver, Greg Zamira, and Paul Tevis.

Shelley and I sit down to discuss two new games hitting the store shelves soon, and reflect on a couple of others:

Code 777 - Due soon from Stronghold Games and available for pre-order now

Founding Fathers - The new game from the team that brought us 1960, Making of the President

Diamonds Club - Rudiger Dorn's great game from 2008 that has never seen a US release

11 Nimmt! - The new spin off by Kramer of 6 Nimmt/Category 5/Slide 5

Yukon Co - An old Dirk Henn title that is (sorry) way out of print.

Enjoy!

Shelley and I delve into a couple of family games this week, looking at the new Out of the Box/Alan Moon & Aaron Weissblum 10 Days in the Americas, then finally get around to playing and discussing African Park, published by Giochix, a quick and fun card game that we picked up all the way back in October at Essen.

Shelley and I sit down to discuss two newer Amigo games,

11 Nimmt! from Wolfgang Kramer

and

Jäger und Sammler from Reiner Knizia

We also talk about our 4-player game of Egizia, so some more reflections on that game that we discussed in depth last week.

Doug