Sunday 27 August 2017

Consumable Games

Believe it or not, we don't often plan what our pillow talk is going to be until the day before the episode (sometimes not even until just before we start recording!) but this week we found ourselves playing both Exit the game and T.I.M.E stories. Two games which both have the unusual feature of being designed to be played only once. So it seemed only fitting that we based this weeks episode on this particular mechanic.

In this episode we discuss some of the different ways these types of games are implemented. If this type of game offers value for money and if it would ever be worth playing them again.



Also in case you were wondering, we stole the term Consumable Games from the king of Consumable Games, Rob Daviau, inventor of Legacy games, who was on the excellent Creators Cast podcast this week. I highly recommend you give it a listen!

We also discuss the other games we played  this week including Castles of Mad King Ludwig and Star Realms, as well as revisiting some games we have recently discussed - Go Nuts for Donuts (episode 17) and A Dogs Life (episode 16).

We hope you enjoy this weeks episode and if you want to get in contact with us then please use links to our social media/ email below, and if you have a moment please leave us a review on iTunes - it helps people find us and we love hearing from you!

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Sunday 20 August 2017

Kickstarter

If you have a computer and you enjoy playing board games chances are you are at least aware of kickstarter. Even if you haven't ever backed a project you may find you have a game in your collections whose origins being there.

The crowdfunding platform has allowed game designers a new way of realising their designs without having to have a large amount of capital up from or needing a publisher to release their games. It's so popular in the hobby, that some of the highest funded kickstarters of all time have been board games.

In this weeks episode we barely scratch the surface of this topic, instead focusing on our experiences and opinions.



 We discuss our two latest Kickstarter games to arrive - Go Nuts for Donuts (delicious fun) and Tiny Epic Quest (where we some how forget to mention the coolest thing about the game - the ITEMeeples, seriously look them up!).

We also discuss some Kickstarter games we own but didn't back - but just happened to have played at the games day we had last week- Blood Rage, Burgle Bros. and Sagrada as well as the excellent Great Western Trail.

We hope you enjoy this weeks episode and if you want to get in contact with us then please use links to our social media/ email below, and if you have a moment please leave us a review on iTunes - it helps people find us and we love hearing from you!




Sunday 13 August 2017

Our first review

When Kelly and I started the podcast, it was just to have a place to talk about our experiences playing games and just another way of become even more immersed in the board gaming hobby. We have both treated it more as an audio diary, that hopefully people enjoy listening too, so we were surprised to be approached about reviewing a game and were excited to try something different!

This week's podcast is a little different to our normal format. Pillow talk has been temporarily  replaced by our first attempt at an actual review of a game, though we do have a little discussion about how this is different to the way we normally talk about games and the different considerations we made.


We will be back to normal format next week. If you have any ideas for things you would like to hear us talk about on the podcast please contact us on twitter, facebook or via email - links to all our social media are at the bottom of the page!

Tuesday 8 August 2017

Let's get this website started!

OK, so I'm a little late with this as the podcast has been going for over 3 months now, but going forward I will be posting on here along with each episode, and maybe a few one off posts - who knows!

This site is designed to be a one stop shop for all things related to the Board Games in Bed podcast. You can also find out a bit more about us on this site and find links to our social media from here.

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This week we are discussing different types of non competitive board games.

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