1P 347 - NEOM - Create the City of Tomor...

This week Julius introduces us to Cozy Stickerville, a cooperative sticker legacy game about building out a village over a 10-year campaign. You draw cards, make decisions, and place stickers on a mounted board, with the whole experience being mostly about narrative and atmospher ... Show More

This week I take a trip into the hedgerows of Normandy with Fields of Fire, the solitaire tactical wargame by Ben Hull, published by GMT Games. This is a strictly solo experience where you command a US Army company across campaigns set in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. Instead ... Show More

This week we talk about Nations, the board game. Really though, this is a tale of two nations. We are focusing on the board game but use that to discuss and compare Nations the board game with nations the dice game. Nations (BGG) Nations: the Dice Game (BGG) 

<p>Claire&#39;s game idea this week is an online social deduction game. Sounds pretty sus to me!</p> <p><br>Isaac&#39;s got an idea for a city builder disguised as a farming game disguised as a Halloween game!</p> <p><br>Then he rants about being able to move buildings in a city ... Show More

What's old is new again with our first "New Game+" episode! It's technically a re-run, sure, but! You probably haven't listened to it! We have stats that say so!This episode kicks off with Honks and Bonks of Just Dance and Elden Ring! Guess who does which game, I bet you can't! T ... Show More

Ian Flood shares how a late-night chess game with his then-flatmate and fellow architect Chris Prosser sparked the idea to design sets inspired by city skylines, with pieces shaped like famous landmarks. He discusses how they founded Skyline Chess and grew it into a thriving busi ... Show More

Is Pizza Tower a revival of one of platform game design’s most fascinating evolutionary dead ends, or something new? Is it, as Shane put it, “Celeste for Weirdos?” Pizza Tower is available on Steam for Windows. Expect it to take about 6-8 hours to complete, but with a lot of room ... Show More

<p>Claire&#39;s idea brings us on an adventure to discover pieces of a secret code to find big treasure!</p> <p><br>Isaac&#39;s idea has us scavenging a post-apocalyptic wasteland for... laserdiscs? And VHSes! That&#39;s right, an alternate history post-apocalypse game where Bloc ... Show More

This Thanksgiving week the hosts gathered to play a bit of a game, trying to match short games to randomly chosen genres and adjectives. What’s a David Lynchian Platformer, or an “I Want To Go To There” Card Game? What on Earth is Snacks ‘n Jaxson? All will be revealed. Happy Hol ... Show More

<p>This week's game idea theme is cookies and in that spirit Isaac brings us the aptly named Cookie Shooter! It's a first person shooter... with a cookie theme. Yup. Claire's game is a Battletech-inspired Gingerbread man game! Then we discuss savescumming and building it into gam ... Show More

Happy four years, #NewHorizons, we can't wait to find out what's next for #AnimalCrossing City Island on the #Nintendo Swaperoo (name pending). Will there be skyscrapers, malls, mini-games, more? Ask the rumor mill. Check out the beautifully crafted Animal Crossing Lego sets by c ... Show More

<p>Claire pitches an idea about solving puzzles with reflected light (AND we learn she doesn't know what 3D means!) and Isaac pitches an idea about Santa Claus clobbering evil cretins with his sack! Then we discuss... why games might get released uh, too early!</p> <p><br />This ... Show More

<p>Isaac pitches a game idea about a zombie monkey and Claire pitches a game where you can build &quot;I Spy&quot; games for your friends!</p> <p><br>Claire talks about Escape Rooms and we discuss how escape room design can apply to video game designs/how they are similar!</p> <p ... Show More