This past weekend I had the privilege of traveling to Colorado Springs for Pikes Peak Gamer (PPG) Con! This local convention with a library of over 1,300 great games was an absolute blast. In this episode I talk all about the convention and speed run through the some of the games we played. Of course we also give an important update on Tabletop Alliance, our 501c3 nonprofit that spreads games to students across the US!



Games Discussed:




* All Creatures Big & Small



* Carooka (both snooker & pool)



* Darwin’s Journey



* Terraforming Mars: Aeres Expedition



* Strike & Tournament



* Azul



* Japanese Card Games



* Volltreffer (Underground labyrinth and Five Tribes)



* Nana



* Potato Man




Special shoutouts to Jon, Lainie, Jose, Angela, Sean, Peter, Mitchel, Denis, Dwayne, and others for making the weekend so great!



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This episode is all about the little dice game that captivated me from GAMA Expo and was just released by Keymaster games...Chicken! In addition, Bruce shares some incredible news about Tabletop Alliance and how the article linked in these notes went out to 90,000 teachers in the National Education Association (NEA) magazine!



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NEA Article - https://www.nea.org/professional-excellence/student-engagement/tools-tips/want-your-teaching-game-let-students-play



Pikes Peak Gaming Con - https://pikespeakgamers.com/



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Today's episode is all about the 2023 Spiel des Jahres winner, Dorfromantik! This tile laying gaming campaign experience took my family by storm while we attended BGG.Spring. You definitely want to hear about all the interesting things this game facilitated for us!



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In this gamine experience deep dive we talk all about the Hunt A Killer Mystery Box: Body on the Boardwalk case. This case experience was sent to us by Hunt A Killer and we are glad they did because it was a really great mystery to solve and the components were beyond anything we had seen in this kind of experience to date.



If you would like to try a Hunt A Killer case, feel free to use anyone of the codes that they sent us for use on their website:




* For $10 off any Item "HUNTGA1010"



* For 10% off an order "HUNTGA10"



* For 20% off either a 6 month or 12 month subscription "HUNTGA20"




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In this episode of Board Game Impact released on 6/9 we welcome Dean as a guest so we can chat about team games, particularly the Crew and the lessons we learn while playing games together. This includes the game strategy, group meta, and more all related back to Blooms Revised Taxonomy for learning outcome development!



Dean's BGA Username = OccamsRazor



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This episode is all about getting to be one of the first to play Disney Lorcana while at the GAMA Expo 2023 and my first impressions of the trading card game. Disney Lorcana is set to release to retail late summer 2023 with their "first chapter" set that will have 204 uniquely new Disney art! The game is designed by Ryan Miller and Steve Warner, who were the two people who also taught me how to play!



Make sure to listen to the whole episode to know all of my impressions on the game, conversations with the designers, and the owner of Ravensburger.



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It has been an incrediblely life changing couple months and you have been extremely kind in your patience for another episode. I am happy to share that I am officially Dr. Bruce Brown (aka "Doc Brown") as I have successfully defended and completed a PhD!



This episode is a MEGA update in advance of many more episodes to come.



Topics discussed include:




* PhD Completion & Life Updates



* Incredible Tabletop Alliance Updates



* Children's Miracle Network Hospitals - Extra Life United



* GAMA Expo



* LOTS OF GAMES (with brief overviews)



* BGG.Spring (Memorial Day Weekend, upcomming)

It has been an incredible month and a half since the last recording! We have been able to further the Tabletop Alliance impact to 18,000+ students, attended BGG.Con, made significant progress on my PhD, and more!



Special thanks to all those who came and said high to me at BGG.Con, AMIGO Games, Many Worlds Tavern, and The Brothers Murph.



The Brothers Murph: (please go follow them)



Top 100 Games of all Time – https://youtu.be/MVBTXFKfrCc



152 Games Leaving Charity Cull - https://youtu.be/Vc5rS_xAakc



Many Worlds Tavern - https://manyworldstavern.com/



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Join us as we interview Max Jamelli, an educator who uses games and now has a game of his own design (along with his father) coming to Kickstarter at the end of the month called Lords of Baseball! Why take me out to the ballpark when we can manage the ballpark from home!



We are doing this live recording to raise awareness for Tabletop Alliance, a charity we believe in that sends games to schools, libraries, and community programs across the US for FREEE!!! Join us as we help them get the support needed to impact 10,000 students! Fundraiser campaign link - https://go.rallyup.com/tabletopallian...



Lords of baseball Kickstarter - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lordsofbaseball/lords-of-baseball?fbclid=IwAR2UWxV54xf4SKV-YwYOZIafYvLPnCq4eBCHRBbrCNqLbMuu-BaKdLFXd2Q



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In this episode Josh is back sharing all about his experience from the first ever World Series of Board Gaming and even his experience playing Terraforming Mars The Dice Game!!! Definately a lot of fun was had at the competition, but so were too a lot of first convention growing pains. Tune in to hear all about it and Josh's plans for next year's event.



We streamed this recording LIVE to Facebook, Twitch, and Youtube to raise awareness about Tabletop Alliance, a gaming charity that we care about! You can tune in for our recordings live so that you can participate in our discussion. Make sure to follow on each platform to be alerted when we go live!



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Josh is back to talk all about his upcoming trip to the World Series of Board Gaming happening in Vegas! Josh is going to talk to us all about his prep and how this whole world series works.



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Have you volunteered for Extra Life? Sign up to potentially participate as part of Bruce's Study - https://tamu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_d71TwF8c9ZXKGYC



You can check out WSBG at https://wsbgvegas.com/



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In this episode Bruce revs up his engines as he shares about Downforce, a game by Restoration Games designed by Wolfgang Kramer. Also, Bruce shares how the podcast has surpassed 9,000 downloads thanks to you and wants you to know that there is currently a great way to win games while making a positive impact on a nonprofit they love, Tabletop Alliance.



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For starters I am beyond the moon thankful to share that this podcast has been downloaded more than 9,000 times!!!! In this episode Bruce does a deep dive into Beyond the Sun by Rio Grande Games, designed by Dennis K. Chan.



In addition Bruce shares about his upcoming game of Twilight Imperium (4th Edition) with the Prophecy of Kings expansion, and more as this episode was recorded LIVE and can be watched on the @BoardGameImpact pages on Twitch, YouTube, and Facebook. Make sure to subscribe on each so that you can join in live for a future recording as Bruce talks about more gaming things and your questions before and after the episode recording!



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In this episode of Board Game Impact Bruce reviews Destiny Quest - The Legion of Shadow game book by Michael J. Ward. This choose your own adventure game book has over 900 passages that the character you create can explore all while making meaningful decisions, engaging in combat, finding new gear, and learning more about this sprawling world that the author created. This game book does contain some mature content (fighting, battle, death) and is recommended for young adults and older due to the content.



Join Bruce as he shares his experiences playing this first book in the Destiny Quest line for more than 15 hours in the unique role of being a game master for his wife as she has her character explore the vast storylines.



Stay tuned after the credits for reading of the prologue by Bruce so you can feel the narrative environment that Michael creates through his writing.



This episode was recorded LIVE and streamed to Patreon, Twitch , and YouTube to raise awareness for Tabletop Alliance, a volunteer run 501c3 nonprofit that supports educators, librarians, and community leaders using games by providing free games and consultations for the benefit of their students! You can learn more about Tabletop Alliance and donate by visiting TabletopAlliance.org



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The podcast is back!!!!!



After a long and jam packed PhD adventure of finishing off all coursework I am so happy to be back playing games and getting to share about them with you for the benefit of your gaming group. In what way did I come back you may ask....well with a vengeance is the correct answer! This episode crash courses 18 games, 10 kickstarters/preorders ahead, and sharing updates about some different elements (i.e. PhD Journey, BGG, Streaming Gaming).



It is good to be back. This episode is full of crash courses on each of these 28 games in 40 minutes



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The games discussed in this episode are:



* Clash of Cultures Monumental Edition by WizKids* Destiny Quest (Book 1) Legion of Shadow by Michael Ward* Marrakech by Gigmatic* Camel Up/Camel Cup* Last Message by Iello* Libertalia by Stonemaier Games* Watergate by Capstone Games* Cryptid by Osprey* Dune Imperium + Rise of Ix Expansion by Dire Wolf* Gutenberg by Portal Games* Magic Mountain by Amigo* Planet Unknown by Adams Apple Games* Tortuga 1667 by Facade Games* Nemo’s War 2nd Ed. by Victory Point Games* Juicy Fruits by Capstone Games* Kabuto Sumo by BoardGameTables.com* Wasteland Express Delivery Service* Radlands by Roxley Games



Kickstars/Pre-Orders



* Ahoy! By Leder Games* Destiny Quest world compendium* Um Actually - The Game of Nerdy Connections* Canvas Reflections Expansion by Road to Infamy* Sleeping Gods; Distant Skies by Red Raven Games* Too Many Bones: Unbreakable Stretch Content from Chip Theory Games* Age of Steam Deluxe KS (All Maps) by Eagle Griffin* Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game by Magpie Games* Root Roleplaying Game by Magpie Games* Skyrise by Roxley Games

In this episode Bruce and Josh compare and contrast Parks and Trails, both by Keymaster games. They discuss the nuances of each, gameplay, components, and overall whether one replaces the other or if there are differences to justify having both.



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In this episode Bruce uses his dozens of hours of playtime to ask Josh about his first every play of Twilight Imperium 4th Edition which included playing with the new Prophecy of the Kings Expansion.



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Twilight Imperium Links:



-Learn to Play https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u2xEap5hBM



-Choose starting factions site http://www.mygurps.com/TwilightImperium.html



-Stats by faction Google Spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1c2fGqedk13kS8PR2XF1Olo7kWrjUu5LwZFLSRUKaKdo/edit#gid=0



-”Evernoob’s Super Cheat Sheet” https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Y_av0_M5Cyz8viBIMOqDjf_ZbawR9GGNWztPqR-zuso/edit#gid=291923345



-Map Generator https://ti4-map-generator.derekpeterson.ca/



-Space Lions Documentary by Shut Up & Sit Down - https://youtu.be/iUpFlkTvQgg







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In this episode the BoardGameGeek Golden Geek Award goes to.......quite a lot of games actually. That's right Bruce and Josh share who won each of the game categories of the BGG Golden Geek Awards. Each of these came out in 2020 and were voted on throughout BGG's nomination and voting process by the BGG users.



We encourage you to check out the Tabletop Alliance "Christmas In July - Buy a Game, Give a Game" experience at - https://shop.tabletopalliance.org/



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The time has come for the start of in-person gaming and to nominate your favorites for the Board Game Geek "Golden Geek" Awards! Now that they are vaccinated they have started to play games again with other vaccinated individuals in-person with lots more coming soon. This being the case there are some great games that have gotten to the table.



Nominations for Golden Geek: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2639250/15th-annual-golden-geek-awards-nominations-open



Specific Games Discussed:



* Honey Buzz (Elf Creek Games)* Star Wars: Unlock! (Space Cowboys)* Lost Ruins of Arnak (CGE)* MicroMacro - Crime City (Pegasus Spiele)* It's A Wonderful Life (Lucky Duck)* In Vino Morte (Button Shy)* Nidavellir (Pegasus Spiele)



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In this episode Josh brought up a discussion topic that was the focus of the entire show, how do we go about "teaching and learning games?" Given our backgrounds in education we easily could have kept talking about this but had to cut ourselves off but it was a lot of fun to have this personal conversation in an effort of sharing our perspectives and experiences. In addition, we also dive into game design choices such as intro games, recommended first plays, and campaign/legacy systems as a method of the game trying to be the teacher.



We hope that you enjoy this episode, and more importantly find it helpful to you and your game group.



As Josh mentioned several times, we would love to hear from you about what you have seen that has worked well or not so well. Please email those suggestions to us at Boardgameimpact@gmail.com.



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And this episode of board game impact. We're going to be talking about teaching and learning games and some strategies that ends a stay tuned. How do you welcome to the latest episode of board game impact. My name is bruce. And i'm always joined by. This is josh and today. we're gonna be talking about teaching and learning games. But if you haven't heard if you haven't listened to us before please make sure to hit that. Subscribe button so you can get all the latest episodes because we are taking our educational lenses working on my phd. And josh and i both work and higher education and so we take those lenses and we apply them to the gaming situations that were having to break them down for your group benefit and so two days probably one of the most important ones there because we're literally talking about teaching and learning. It's a little on the nose with this little on the nose with this one like literally. I was teaching my class earlier today. So this is really about like some strategies and things like that. But i'll let josh get into that in a second but that is who we are. We also do some youtube videos occasionally. But we're very excited to be talking to you about this. So make sure to subscribe and then also go on over to facebook and instagram and follow us there. So just this was your brainchild which is interesting because we both work in education in find opposite fifty four for us to do this so walk us through kind of where this game from. Yes so this is a topic that i've been very interested in bringing to the show for quite a while now and where this really started for me is. I have traveled a lot over the past five ten years of my life. I've moved around for different jobs and different things like that and board games have always been my home whenever i find a new home. Is you know the first thing i do is i find. Where's where do people meet up to play board games in this new town that i'm living in and so it's how i introduce myself to people and how i meet people. I have found in the process of doing that. That i as i find new groups and new individuals that i'm learning a lot of new games that i hadn't heard of from other people but i'm also bringing a lot of two groups that have not had those games before and so i'm doing a lot of teaching And a lot of learning. And so i have realized and found and discovered over time some techniques and ways that i have modified the way that i tea...