In this episode:

We talk about stacks at PAX Aus! Woo! We got to test the Oculus Rift, played some great local and international indie titles (Duet, Tasty Fish, Johann Sebastian Joust, Freedom Fall, and many others!), played some board games and cards games (like Lords of Waterdeep: Scoundrels of Skullport, String Railway, Story War and Magic- Huh? Never heard of it!) and listened to words of wisdom from the hosts.

Tune in for the most fun you can have listening to a Melbourne-based geek/pop culture podcast*!

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Episode 17a – PAX AUS

Music: Theme for Harold (var. 2) by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a CC Attribution 3.0.

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Links for the things we talked about:

George R. R. Martin vs. Paul and Storm

DJ Pon-3 SDCC 2013 Exclusive

Evan and Adam reading Bravest Warriors together

Board games at Games Laboratory, Melbourne

Lords of Waterdeep: Scoundrels of Skullport at BGG and Milsims

String Railway at BGG and Milsims

Infiltration at BGG and Milsims

Missile Control by Blunt Instrument Studios. (Available now on the iTunes App Store and Google Play)

Armello by League of Geeks

Dungeon Dashers by Jigxor, currently on Steam Greenlight. (You can buy an Alpha build of the game on their website as well, which will give you access to the full game when it’s out and comes with a Level Editor. Totally worth checking out.)

Wolfdozer by Anomalous Interactive

Game of Watchcraft: Spawn of Squishy by LCDemakes. (Available now on the iTunes App Store)

Hero Days by Fey Wombat Studios

Deck War by KlickTock (Playable prototype is available on the website)

Context for the Penny Arcade gender discussion: Gabe’s responses on the Penny Arcade website here and here. For the actual Tweets, you’ll have to search through Gabe’s Twitter account to around 20 June or so. I’m not going to link all of it, but here’s a sample.

We tried out the Oculus Rift at VR Insanity‘s booth. They have a campaign going on at Pozible.

Tasty Fish by Dime Studios. (Available now on the iTunes App Store)

Postman’s Odyssey and Cargo Chaos by Considerable Content (Cargo Chaos available now on the iTunes App Store and Google Play)

Evan also mentioned A Hat in Time in relation to Postman’s Odyssey.

DUET by Kumobius (No game website yet)

Freedom Fall by Lisa Rye and Stirfire Studios (Available now on the iTunes App Store, Google Play and Desura. Also, you can vote for it on Steam Greenlight)

Runic Rumble by Epiphany Games

TownCraft by Flat Earth Games (with Epiphany Games, available now on the iTunes App Store)

Infinity Wars by Lightmare Studios (Available now on their website)

Story War at BGG and available on DFTBA

Particulars by SeeThrough Studios (Alpha available on their site and you can also vote for it on Steam Greenlight)

Burden by Pixelpickle Games

Surprise Attack Games actually partner with a few of the developers to publish/market their games.

The Indie Board Games panel featured Anthony Sweet (Handwritten Games), Sean Carroll (93 Made Games), Wesley Lamont (RAEZ), Paul Nicholas and Alex Dijk (Blue Room Games), and Thomas Elliot (Sixpence Games). A video of the panel is available on YouTube here.

Evan got T-Shirts designed by OMOCAT.

PAX AUS 2013 photos on Aaron and Evan‘s Instagram accounts.