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The Gaming with Science Podcast looks at the intersection of science and tabletop board games, with the occasional dip into video games, RPGs, game theory, or whatever else the dice roll up. If you ever wondered how natural selection shows up in Evolution, whether Cytosis reflects actual cell metabolism, or what the socioeconomics of Monopoly are, this is the place for you. (And if not, we hope you’ll give us a try anyway.) So grab a drink, pull out some dice, and let’s get gaming with science!
#Daybreak #CMYKGames #Climatechange #ClimateScience #BoardGames #ScienceCommunication #SciComm
Things are warming up in this episode as we talk with Dr. Jacquelyn Gill about Daybreak, a cooperative game about combatting climate change while keeping society intact. We cover tipping points, carbon drawdown, ocean acidification, the clean energy transition, what fossil fuels actually are, and some actually good news about climate change.
Timestamps
00:00 - Introductions
01:31 - Baby pterosaurs and frog saunas
06:11 - Playing Daybreak
22:53 - Designer choices
27:50 - Sense of urgency
32:45 - Tipping points
40:44 - Ocean acidification
47:05 - Clean energy as the focus
52:53 - RCP and climate projections
58:50 - What are fossil fuels?
1:02:00 - Niggling nitpicks
1:07:12 - Final grades
Links
Daybreak Official Site (CYMK Games)
Designer diary
FSC Certification (sustainable components)
Matteo Menapace site
Warm Regards (Jacquelyn's podcast)
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Jason 0:06 Hello and welcome to the gaming with Science Podcast, where we talk about the science behind some of your favorite games.
Brian 0:11 Today, we're going to discuss Daybreak by CMYK. Welcome back to gaming with science. This is Brian.
Jason 0:20 This is Jason
Brian 0:21 and we're joined today by a special guest, Jacquelyn Gill. Jacquelyn, can you please introduce yourself?
Jacquelyn 0:26 Hi, I'm Jacquelyn. I'm a paleoecologist from the University of Maine, and I am also a science communicator, and I focus on climate change.
Brian 0:34 That's cool. And then you also said that you are, in fact, a board gamer yourself. What games do you enjoy playing?
Jacquelyn 0:41 Oh gosh, I have been a gamer of many stripes for a long time, everything from video games to tabletop RPGs to board games. And these days, I've been getting really into two player games because we haven't really found our gaming community. So I get really excited when I have a new two player game, and I think my husband's just going to be really excited to play daybreak, because we've been playing a lot of twilight struggle, which is a cold war game where one of you plays the Soviet Union and the other plays the United States.
Brian 1:14 Oh, man.
Jacquelyn 1:14 And you know, that's starting to feel a little too close to home these days. So yeah, and it also takes a million years to get through.
Brian 1:21 Well, I don't think this game takes a million years to get through, but I would say that this is not a light game either from that perspective. But you know, you can when you win. Man, does it feel good, though. Before we get into the game, we'll do our science banter, some kind of story or topic or something from the world of science that we want to discuss. We usually let the guest host go first. Jacquelyn, do you have something you like to share?
Jacquelyn 1:42 I do. And, you know, the folks might have seen those T shirts or mugs that have a dinosaur on them that say all my friends are dead. As a paleoecologist, I feel this, you know, this is my life. So this is not a this is not a happy story. You know, when we talk about a highly productive fossil site, we're talking about a death trap. So, I mean, on September 5, there was this really cool study that came out in the journal Current Biology, and it's all about baby pterosaurs. So these were these, yeah, these
Brian 2:13 dead baby pterosaurs.
Jacquelyn 2:14 Dead baby pterosaurs. I know, and we know. So the fossils themselves are, I would classify them as cute. They're pretty small and but it turns out that this, this p
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The Gaming with Science Podcast looks at the intersection of science and tabletop board games, with the occasional dip into video games, RPGs, game theory, or whatever else the dice roll up. If you ever wondered how natural selection shows up in Evolution, whether Cytosis reflects actual cell metabolism, or what the socioeconomics of Monopoly are, this is the place for you. (And if not, we hope you’ll give us a try anyway.) So grab a drink, pull out some dice, and let’s get gaming with science!
