In this episode:
We haven’t had an episode without a guest for while, so we get rambly as we talk about some couch multiplayer games that we’ve been playing. Evan and Aaron also chat about watching the Harmontown documentary, we review The Battle at Kemble’s Cascade and we run through some board game adaptations of video games. We also briefly talk about some licensed games and chat about player input into the design of games.
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Episode 62 – Couching Trigger, Hidden Drag-and-Drop
Music: Theme for Harold (var. 2) by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a CC Attribution 3.0.
Links for the things we talked about:
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Harmontown (the documentary, and the podcast)
Dream Quest, which I’ve reviewed here on the blog
We also discuss Mother 3’s rhythm-based combat in this post
Mount Your Friends (which Evan should have included in his roundup of walking simulators)
Screencheat. We’ve also talked with the developers behind Screencheat on the podcast.
The Battle at Kemble’s Cascade (which is an actual astronomical thing)
Civilization: The Board Game, which Adam has reviewed on the podcast
Bioshock Infinite: The Siege of Columbia
Resident Evil Deck Building Game, which I also spoke about on the podcast previously
Halo had a couple of themed Risk games
X-Wing Miniatures, and exciting news about the digital re-release of the X-Wing video games
World of Warcraft: The Board Game
BattleCon: Devastation of Indines and BattleCon: War of Indines
Age of Empires III: The Age of Discovery, or Glenn Drover’s Empires: The Age of Discovery
Evan did a short video review of Alien: Isolation
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
Batman: Arkham Asylum, Arkham City and Arkham Origins
LEGO Star Wars, LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes
Magic: the Gathering is going to have a strategy board game and a movie
Yu-Gi-Oh!’s graphic design is pretty bad
Some dude finds an Alpha Black Lotus, worth about $25,000, on camera
I found a Tarmogoyf once? It’s worth close to $200 now
In Hungary, you don’t play Magic, you play POWER CARD GAME CARD
Weiß Schwarz is the game, and Bushiroad is the publisher
My Little Pony: Collectible Card Game
Legend of the Five Rings has player input into the storylines and cards
Android: Netrunner released a card designed by the winner of the 2012 World Championship
The Magic Invitational is a tournament where the prize is the opportunity to design a card for Magic, with your likeness in the art.
Ghostbusters could have an all-female main cast
Action Points! 