Pete chats with Cole Wehrle about his history with economic games like Container and how these nasty designs inspired An Infamous Traffic, which currently has a second edition in development for Wehrlegig Games.

All four hosts are together to share their experiences of hanging out together IN PERSON for Stonemaier Design Day. Paul talks about games he's working on for GameHead and Pete, Jake, and Brendan discuss the games they brought to showcase at the event.

Pete and Brendan explore the card game genre known as lane battlers and deep dive the 1999 Knizia Classic Schotten Totten that gave birth to these dueling games.

Pete is joined by Arnie, Jared and Luke to discuss Splotter's 2005 economic masterpiece Indonesia

Pete and Paul recap their Gen Con experience and give quick impressions of games they picked up there!

Paul, Brendan, and Pete discuss the benefits and potential pitfalls of making new editions of old games. Then they deep dive Paolo Mori's 2012 classic Libertalia

A good ‘ole fashion mail bag episode

This week Brendan tries to convince his co-hosts that "sandbox objectives" and "point salad" are not not the same thing. Jake isn't convinced. Also the gang deep dives the new polyomino game Frosted Blooms, designed by Bruno Cathala and Ludovic Maublanc.

That types of questions do games ask us as players? When should I score? Who can I trust? Why did they do that? How should I sequence this? This week we dig into what the central questions are in different games and think about how this can help us as players and designers.

This time we're going digital! How do games like Balatro and Slay the Spire build on physical games and where do they diverge?

Pete is joined by Cardner Babakitis of Odd Candy Games and Buried Giant Studios. They discuss the historical games they played at the inaugural SD HistCon North

Jake, Paul, and Brendan explore the different deck structures of card games.

All four hosts are together to play a game as a way to choose a consensus list of the best board games from the early 2010s

dnup dethrones Scout! We also discuss iterative design.

A deep dive of The Old King’s Crown

What is hand management and what types of decisions do games featuring this mechanism offer?

A one-on-one interview with one of the most prolific designers in boardgames, Phil Walker-Harding

Ranking gobs of Phil-Walker Harding games!

Pete and Jake discuss all the games they played at Geekway to the West including Feya’s Swamp, Dark Pact, Oath, Guards of Atlantis II, and more

In this episode we do a deep dive on Splotter's first major hit Bus and discuss other shared infrastructure games