In this episode Bruce and Josh compare and contrast Parks and Trails, both by Keymaster games. They discuss the nuances of each, gameplay, components, and overall whether one replaces the other or if there are differences to justify having both. To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: * Join the Patreon: Board Game Impact* Like the Facebook Page: Board Game Impact* Instagram: @boardgameimpact* Email: [email protected]

In this episode Bruce uses his dozens of hours of playtime to ask Josh about his first every play of Twilight Imperium 4th Edition which included playing with the new Prophecy of the Kings Expansion. To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: * Join the Patreon: Board Game Impact* Like the Facebook Page: Board Game Impact* Instagram: @boardgameimpact* Email: [email protected] Twilight Imperium Links: -Learn to Play https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u2xEap5hBM -Choose starting factions site http://www.mygurps.com/TwilightImperium.html -Stats by faction Google Spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1c2fGqedk13kS8PR2XF1Olo7kWrjUu5LwZFLSRUKaKdo/edit#gid=0 -”Evernoob’s Super Cheat Sheet” https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Y_av0_M5Cyz8viBIMOqDjf_ZbawR9GGNWztPqR-zuso/edit#gid=291923345 -Map Generator https://ti4-map-generator.derekpeterson.ca/ -Space Lions Documentary by Shut Up & Sit Down - https://youtu.be/iUpFlkTvQgg Audio Transcript (Generated by AI...Coming Soon)

In this episode the BoardGameGeek Golden Geek Award goes to.......quite a lot of games actually. That's right Bruce and Josh share who won each of the game categories of the BGG Golden Geek Awards. Each of these came out in 2020 and were voted on throughout BGG's nomination and voting process by the BGG users. We encourage you to check out the Tabletop Alliance "Christmas In July - Buy a Game, Give a Game" experience at - https://shop.tabletopalliance.org/ To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: * Join the Patreon: Board Game Impact* Like the Facebook Page: Board Game Impact* Instagram: @boardgameimpact* Email: [email protected] Audio Transcript (Generated by AI...coming soon)

The time has come for the start of in-person gaming and to nominate your favorites for the Board Game Geek "Golden Geek" Awards! Now that they are vaccinated they have started to play games again with other vaccinated individuals in-person with lots more coming soon. This being the case there are some great games that have gotten to the table. Nominations for Golden Geek: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2639250/15th-annual-golden-geek-awards-nominations-open Specific Games Discussed: * Honey Buzz (Elf Creek Games)* Star Wars: Unlock! (Space Cowboys)* Lost Ruins of Arnak (CGE)* MicroMacro - Crime City (Pegasus Spiele)* It's A Wonderful Life (Lucky Duck)* In Vino Morte (Button Shy)* Nidavellir (Pegasus Spiele) To try MicroMacro: https://www.micromacro-game.com/en/index.html To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: * Join the Patreon: Board Game Impact* Like the Facebook Page: Board Game Impact* Instagram: @boardgameimpact* Email: [email protected] Audio Transcript (Generated by AI...Coming Soon)

In this episode Josh brought up a discussion topic that was the focus of the entire show, how do we go about "teaching and learning games?" Given our backgrounds in education we easily could have kept talking about this but had to cut ourselves off but it was a lot of fun to have this personal conversation in an effort of sharing our perspectives and experiences. In addition, we also dive into game design choices such as intro games, recommended first plays, and campaign/legacy systems as a method of the game trying to be the teacher. We hope that you enjoy this episode, and more importantly find it helpful to you and your game group. As Josh mentioned several times, we would love to hear from you about what you have seen that has worked well or not so well. Please email those suggestions to us at [email protected]. To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: * Join the Patreon: Board Game Impact* Like the Facebook Page: Board Game Impact* Instagram: @boardgameimpact* Email: [email protected] Audio Transcription (Generated by AI) 00:00:09 - 00:05:02 And this episode of board game impact. We're going to be talking about teaching and learning games and some strategies that ends a stay tuned. How do you welcome to the latest episode of board game impact. My name is bruce. And i'm always joined by. This is josh and today. we're gonna be talking about teaching and learning games. But if you haven't heard if you haven't listened to us before please make sure to hit that. Subscribe button so you can get all the latest episodes because we are taking our educational lenses working on my phd. And josh and i both work and higher education and so we take those lenses and we apply them to the gaming situations that were having to break them down for your group benefit and so two days probably one of the most important ones there because we're literally talking about teaching and learning. It's a little on the nose with this little on the nose with this one like literally. I was teaching my class earlier today. So this is really about like some strategies and things like that. But i'll let josh get into that in a second but that is who we are. We also do some youtube videos occasionally. But we're very excited to be talking to you about this. So make sure to subscribe and then also go on over to facebook and instagram and follow us there. So just this was your brainchild which is interesting because we both work in education in find opposite fifty four for us to do this so walk us through kind of where this game from. Yes so this is a topic that i've been very interested in bringing to the show for quite a while now and where this really started for me is. I have traveled a lot over the past five ten years of my life. I've moved around for different jobs and different things like that and board games have always been my home whenever i find a new home. Is you know the first thing i do is i find. Where's where do people meet up to play board games in this new town that i'm living in and so it's how i introduce myself to people and how i meet people. I have found in the process of doing that. That i as i find new groups and new individuals that i'm learning a lot of new games that i hadn't heard of from other people but i'm also bringing a lot of two groups that have not had those games before and so i'm doing a lot of teaching And a lot of learning. And so i have realized and found and discovered over time some techniques and ways that i have modified the way that i tea...

In this episode Bruce has finally thawed out in Texas and although he lost power several times he is thankful because board games don't require power so he was able to get in even more gaming. Together Bruce and Josh talk about what they have been playing recently as well as some of what they have backed or are excited about on Kickstarter. Enjoy! Specific Games Discussed: * Root (Leder Games)* Sleeping Gods (Red Raven Games)* Merlin (Queen Games)* Canvas (Road To Infamy) Kickstarters and coming soon things * Darwin's Journey (Thundergryph)* Maquis 2nd Edition (Side Room Games)* Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition (Stronghold Games)* Radlands (Roxley)* Clinic 2nd & 3rd Extensions (AV Studio)* CoraQuest (Dan & Cora Hughes)* Crafting Arzium (Zoom Out Media)* Meeples & Monsters (AEG)* War Chest: Seige Expansion (AEG)* Red Rising (Stonemaier Games) To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: * Join the Patreon: Board Game Impact* Like the Facebook Page: Board Game Impact* Instagram: @boardgameimpact* Email: [email protected] Audio Transcription (Generated by AI) Episode 53 Thawed Out 00:00:08 - 00:05:03 In this episode of board game impacts. We're going to be talking about a whole bunch of kick starters and gains. You've been playing reselling now that we've been thought out here in texas a stay tuned. Welcome back to another episode of board game impact. Of course my name is bruce. And i'm joined by. This is josh. Josh and so we are recording I just want to give a quick caveat before we get started so the episode that came out last week. This is yeah. It's only been a week. And that is because texas froze over for a week and so thank you for understanding this kind of like weird schedule just one put that out there because literally there's rolling quote unquote rolling blackouts across the state and for many people. It wasn't rolling and there's still power and things like that and so if you're listening to this and the state of texas we just want to say and you're still having some ongoing things or friends who are just wanted to say like. Hey i hope all that gets worked out fast and that you are safe and that we are here with you and this is one of those times. That josh is getting put out there. Very thankful to be aboard gamer. Because when the power went out for hours on end i was able to get in some games and just opened up the blinds in the snow. The snow reflected the the sun pretty well so we can get some games so actually have more games than i was planning to even be able to talk about things going on. That's good right. Glad you found found some ways to entertain while you were there definitely elizabeth and i were thinking about you a lot over the last weekend of course Sitting all of our thoughts and well wishes to all of our listeners and everyone Down there in texas I know that that is a struggle I can only imagine what some folks have been going through so Yeah glad here that you Are doing well. I'm glad to hear that that caitlin is doing well and Hope hope everyone else out. There is also making through in this Very very strange times very much and by strange like you can't be like you're right on the money because literally four days ago it was negative one. And it's now seventy so it is just crazy. What's been nice this out there. I'm on a couple email threads with fellow geeks. Who board game geek. Things and it's been really nice having people like reach out and see this community come together and so ...

In this episode Bruce & Josh take a deep dive into Dune Imperium by Dire Wolf Studios. This coveted intellectual property along with the unique combination of deck building by the creators of CLANK! and worker placement make this game an interesting one to play. Listen in to this complete deep dive into our experiences for your benefit. To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: * Join the Patreon: Board Game Impact* Like the Facebook Page: Board Game Impact* Instagram: @boardgameimpact* Email: [email protected] Audio Transcription (Generated by AI) 00:00:08 - 00:05:03 In this episode of board game impact the spice must flow as we talk about dune imperium. Welcome back to another episode of impact. As always i am bruce. I'm jordan. Joined by and this is josh. Well josh they say that fears the mind killer but so far getting started is thrown me off. I think it's just because we're very excited about this game and talk about it. Because i know you and i both had some anticipation with it. But before we get into that if this is your first episode of board game impact what you're here for is we look at games through educational lenses. We both work fulltime and higher education and we apply those lenses to unpack games and gaming experiences for you and your benefit so by listening to this is gonna be a deep dive into dune. Imperium and so Josh what do you want to say to kick us off a little bit. Yeah bruce. I was very excited about this game. I definitely had my acquisition disorder All a buzz So love the dune franchise Barracks cited to see this movie. When it finally comes out please. Yes at some point But you know. I fell in love. I actually came late to the dune party. I kinda picked up the books. Probably about two or three years ago And just absolutely fell in love because it's a phenomenal especially the first book The the main book dune For listeners who aren't really aware dune imperium is set in the dune universe series of novels by frank. Herbert sifi Political intrigue drama type series. That is absolutely fantastic So very very excited to play this really excited to talk about it and and get some thoughts. Yeah and so Dean premium is made by designed by paldon and it was put out by dire wolf who you might know for doing some pretty great things over with some digital app adaptations so they did the digital adaptations of route but also this is the team that brought clank together. So there's a little bit deck building in this. Some really cool things and josh was saying a little bit about his position -ality so like our lenses that are getting applied to this. I was later to the dune thing too. I honestly picked up a copy. Abdoun my local like half price books for like five bucks two years ago. Because i'm like. I need to read this. And then when i found out the movie was coming out and was like blown away by the trailer owes like i need to read this and so i read the book and then a month before the movie is supposed to come out. Movie comes out next year. So i'm a little caught up now but honestly back in the day josh before i ever really knew. What dune was things like that. I was really into the real time strategy games and like command and conquer right or red alert. But i also really like dune. Two thousand which was based on the dune universe and these different houses vying for control. Did you ever play that. I did not. It's pretty cool. It's exactly like command and conquer and things like that. Where you have your factions. You build the buildings and then you're trying to go out which later evolved into things like starcraft which took th...

In this episode Bruce and Josh talk about several games they have been playing lately, all of which have been in the BGG hotness at respective times. Find out what we thought about them and what we they brought out in ourselves and fellow gamers! Specific Games Discussed: * Tapestry + Plans & Ploys (Stonemaier)* A War of Whispers (2nd Ed) (Starling Games)* Dwellings of Eldervale (Breaking Games)* Beyond the Sun (Rio Grande) To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: * Join the Patreon: Board Game Impact* Like the Facebook Page: Board Game Impact* Instagram: @boardgameimpact* Email: [email protected] Audio Transcription (Generated by AI....Coming Soon)

This episode is a celebration! We recorded it LIVE at the conclusion of an online game day where we raised awareness and funds for Tabletop Alliance. What better way to live up how we end every episode with "go make a positive impact on the world." Bruce and Josh are joined in the beginning by some others who participated in the game day, then there is some reflection on the day as well as the past 49 episodes, and then some excitement that is to come despite everything going on in the world at the time. We are so humbled and cannot believe we are at 50 episodes, and cannot wait to do 50 more! To learn more about Tabletop Alliance Visit TabletopAlliance.org To donate to the nonprofit text "Tabletop" to 44-321 (standard message/data rates may apply) Giveaway Link: https://gleam.io/yNVv8/kicking-off-2021-30-mm-giveaway Giveaway CODE: “ALLIANCE”  ------------------------ Show Notes To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game Impact Like the Facebook Page: Board Game Impact Instagram: @boardgameimpact Email: [email protected] Transcript (Generated by AI) Episode 50 Celebrating 50 Episodes while Making a Positive Impact 00:00:09 - 00:05:07 Hello and welcome to the fiftieth episode. We're celebrating in this episode so we actually being recorded live so stay tuned for all the excitement and why we're doing this live. Hello and welcome to the fiftieth episode of board game impact. How crazy is that. So my name of course is bruce brown as always. I am joined by josh. So josh and i are not the only ones here. We're going to introduce a couple more people real fast but first of all if this is your first episode board game backed make sure to hit that. Subscribe button because what we're doing is we're applying our educational lenses. Both josh and i work fulltime and higher education. We apply those educational lenses to the gaming experiences. Mma games we're playing for your benefit and your game groups benefit so make sure to hit subscribe like on all the things and speaking of liking all the things i like the next people and the other people we had today on this stream because this is lie. This was a live recording that we're doing On the board game impact facebook page. So let's introduce a couple people who have been with us out of ours not everyone who is with us. This is just those who could be here right now but first of all fox you've been on the entire time introduce yourself. Hi i'm fox I play board games with bruce. And i used to play board games. Josh play board games. Josh today is great. And i'm also the financial officer of tabletop alliance and so we've been streaming all day. Four tabletop top lions. We're gonna talk all about that but justin how introduce yourself justed. Would we're friends and we'd like to play games together. Laid with all these people for a long time. It was a good day of playing games and it was absolutely great. Dan playing games. And i know you on the august dream. We did as well. So welcome back for another live episode recording conrad whereby you why is connor. They same same deal. All we play board games prime members or previous members of the twelve game or group...

Let's kick 2021 off right by having a different and special episode to showcase how both Bruce and Josh are working to make a positive impact on the world, the quote they end ever episode with! In this special episode Bruce & Josh talk about Tabletop Alliance a new 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization they created which works with educators and community leaders to enhance their work through the incorporation of games! Learn more about Tabletop Alliance & Donate - https://tabletopalliance.org/ RSVP for the January 9th Game Day - https://fb.me/e/1QfqHXZOO Giveaway - https://gleam.io/yNVv8/kicking-off-2021-30-mm-giveaway Secret Code - "ALLIANCE" Special Thanks to: * Fox* Deborah* Diana* Matthew P(All Aboard Games)* Scott B (Attorney)* Michael “Futiles” To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: * Join the Patreon: Board Game Impact* Like the Facebook Page: Board Game Impact* Instagram: @boardgameimpact* Email: [email protected] Audio Transcript (Generated by AI...Coming Soon)