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Harvest Phase
Marissa & David McGregor
24 episodes
2 months ago
We are back for what we hope isn’t a one off episode. Our goal is an episode a month as we get our sea legs with parenthood, playing games, and just the day to day drudgery of the 9-5. What a way to make a livin’. We spit ball about games that we have played over the past three months in “Quick Fire” fashion. Some we liked, some we didn’t, and one was a surprising disappointment. I used Craiyon to generate the cover by typing the phrase, “Ark Nova is not our jam.” Feel free to jump over there...
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We are back for what we hope isn’t a one off episode. Our goal is an episode a month as we get our sea legs with parenthood, playing games, and just the day to day drudgery of the 9-5. What a way to make a livin’. We spit ball about games that we have played over the past three months in “Quick Fire” fashion. Some we liked, some we didn’t, and one was a surprising disappointment. I used Craiyon to generate the cover by typing the phrase, “Ark Nova is not our jam.” Feel free to jump over there...
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Episodes (20/24)
Harvest Phase
Rumination on the Card Economy
We are back for what we hope isn’t a one off episode. Our goal is an episode a month as we get our sea legs with parenthood, playing games, and just the day to day drudgery of the 9-5. What a way to make a livin’. We spit ball about games that we have played over the past three months in “Quick Fire” fashion. Some we liked, some we didn’t, and one was a surprising disappointment. I used Craiyon to generate the cover by typing the phrase, “Ark Nova is not our jam.” Feel free to jump over there...
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3 years ago
2 hours 2 minutes

Harvest Phase
A Man Needs A Tower (The Lands Between Overproduction and Mechanisms)
We’re back, and more Tarnished than ever. In this episode, that is longer than the Odyssey, we regale you with tales from House Crocs to Dune Stories, and then get into the games that have found their way into our silly lives. We follow that with an Off-Brand segment all about Elden Ring. Retrieve those runes and shake off the heebie-jeebies from whatever that “guard dog” was. Ain’t no party like a tower party, but BYOP(Palantir). Games We’ve Been Playing: 38:08 Res Arcana (Thomas Lehm...
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3 years ago
3 hours 15 minutes

Harvest Phase
Nice Marmot.
New “season”. New intro tune. Same off-the-cuff board game conversation. As usual, we start chatting about some of the latest stuff that we have been diggin’, including the new Big Thief record, Pokémon Legends Arceus, the Batman Calzone, and Ted Lasso, and then we dive into the games. Crowdfunding Roundup: 24:20 Bloc by Bloc: Uprising 26:47 Tindaya 28:55 Earth Games We’ve Been Playing: 32:25 Trails (Henry Audubon, Keymaster Games) 36:10 Caper: Europe (Unai Rubio, Keymaster Game...
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3 years ago
1 hour 57 minutes

Harvest Phase
2021, For the first time.
Let’s call it the end of the first season. We recap the things we did this year. All of ‘em. In a couple hours. It is definitive, absolute, and unwavering. Tender men unite and gather on the fields of valor during Boy’s Craft Night. Rejoice, for Craft-halla awaits us! 11:15 - Best Game We Didn’t Like15:30 - She’s So Heavy Award20:55 - I Want You (She’s So Heavy) Award28:45 - Top 3 New To Us Games48:26 - 2021 We Don’t Own But Want to Play1:06:15 - 2021 We Own and Want to Play1:27:12 - 2021 G...
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3 years ago
2 hours 16 minutes

Harvest Phase
I’m a Loner, Odessa, a Rebel (Mariner!)
Saddle up, Mariners! We talk about our continued love of treadmill gaming, enter zen states while polyominoes rain down from the heavens, and the perfection that is Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure. We talk about some real doozies this week. Tell ‘em Large Marge sent ya! Featured Games: 14:14 Luna Capital (Jose Ramon Palacios, Devir) 35:50 For Sale Autorama (Stefan Dorra, Eagle-Gryphon Games) 47: 40 Trek 12: Himalaya (Bruno Cathala, Corentin Lebrat, Pandasaurus Games) 57:40 On Tour (Chad DeShon, Boar...
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3 years ago
2 hours 2 minutes

Harvest Phase
Constantly Tripping Over a Log
We mostly stick to board games this week, but have a brief detour to discuss how Tetris Effect Connected soothes the soul and a succinct but fulfilling quest for the Lost in Translation Soundtrack on vinyl. We then discuss all of the Kickstarters we are interested in, our featured games of the week, and then take a rapid fire approach to the games of 2022 that we most anticipate. Sorry for one more drop in the deluge of board game content. Kickstarter Convo: 20:30 Skate Summer (Randy R...
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3 years ago
1 hour 56 minutes

Harvest Phase
On The Terror of Sinkholes
Welcome to 2022! We herald in the new year by diving into dungeons(that likely were produced by sinkholes), stacking cards, stacking fuzzy balls, stacking roads and rails, and getting frustrated at games that make us act against the best interest of the party. We also have our first top five in a segment we dubbed “Five in Five”. Five minutes to create a top five. Simple. Keep smilin’ in 2022, and don’t let the bastards get you down. Intro: Dungeon Encounters (Square Enix, Nintendo Swi...
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3 years ago
2 hours 38 minutes

Harvest Phase
A Biff For Every Season
Welcome back! After a brief hiatus, we attempt to figure out how to do this in real time even though we never really had any clue, and I am making a New Years vow to never say, “We already talked about this on the podcast.” We discuss some Nintendo Switch games we have been playing including, Golf Story(again), The Messenger, and Katana Zero before diving into board games. We conclude with our final thoughts on Survivor Season 41 and its controversial(?) ending. Correction: During our conver...
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3 years ago
2 hours

Harvest Phase
BYOV: Bring Your Own Valet
Sorry that this ends abruptly, we had some weird tech issues toward the end. Somehow a conversation about Metroid Dread and Golf Story lead to a celebration of emergent narrative. I reveal my most hated game (T.I.M.E. Stories, sorry). Somehow we briefly mention the Dave Matthews Band playing a gig at my manor in Victorian England while Mary Shelly, Percy Shelly, and Lord Byron canoodle in the manor’s “conversation” pit. It was a long two weeks off. Giddy up. Featured Games: 35:30 Wits and W...
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3 years ago
1 hour 38 minutes

Harvest Phase
Cite Your Sources of Heat, Plants, and Water
The episode where we finally talk about Terraforming Mars, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition and Race for the Galaxy, while also discussing Olivia Rodrigo and the fine line of influence. Needless to say, while playing Ares Expedition I was feeling a lot of deja vu. No time stamps this week as it is all one conversation. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but try as I might I was unable to land the “Terraforming Lars” joke that was in my head the entire time. Cite your sources, smash that ho...
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4 years ago
1 hour 47 minutes

Harvest Phase
Too Many Bones, But Not Nearly Enough Sweet Chin Music
In a Harvest Phase first, we recorded a full 2 hour episode and then scrapped it and recorded another. This Massively Multiplayer Online RPG inspired episode sees us discussing some of our experiences with Final Fantasy Tactics, Final Fantasy XI, and Final Fantasy XIV, and how we see some key MMO mechanisms in World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, Adventure Tactics: Domianne’s Tower, and Too Many Bones. Somehow in this conversation I get talking about Shawn Michaels, Sweet Ch...
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4 years ago
2 hours 10 minutes

Harvest Phase
Say, Friend, You Got Any More of That Good Sarsaparilla?
Oddly focused, we’re back in the saddle to discuss coffee catastrophes, excellent local escape room experiences, escape room experiences in a box, the tutorial of Cantaloop, echoes: The Cocktail, and Wild Space. Our featured game this week is Great Western Trail, and then we decide not to do an Off-Brand as we are a bit long winded on the games discussion. Fresh Plays: Cantaloop: Book 1 - Breaking into Prison (Friedemann Findeisen, Lookout Games) (kinda) 12:15 echoes: The Cocktail (Ma...
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4 years ago
1 hour 34 minutes

Harvest Phase
You Wanna Be Elite? You Gotta Hear This Righteous Chat.
Brian Lewis is back to talk about our design process for Dinosaur World, but before we do that, we discuss his life long love affair with Magic: The Gathering, how he hasn’t seen Hackers, why we are drawn to “old” games, and if it is acceptable to leave pizza out all night and then eat it the next day. We then discuss our lone play of Floor Plan and spill the beans on the Dino Design Process. Fresh Plays: Floor Plan (Marek Tupi, Deep Water Games) Dinosaur World Design Diary: The story...
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4 years ago
2 hours 7 minutes

Harvest Phase
Absolutely Khorrified by Lawrence Longscroll
Gaming resumes in full force as we take a look at Wok and Roll, Horrified: American Monsters, and Khora: Rise of an Empire. We also usher in October but determining that ghosts are swimming...always. Get lost in our tales of matching symbols to make quality Asian cuisine, matching symbols to take down cryptids, and matching symbols to launch a fleet of a thousand ships. We then beg you to watch the finest television show ever produced. Listen for the symbol matching, stay for the alerts. Fr...
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4 years ago
1 hour 55 minutes

Harvest Phase
What We Do In The Basement
Another busy week sees us playing fewer games, but still not running out of nonsense to talk about. Expect our signature stories, detours, and of course, discussions about games. Despite talking about The Beatles, we fail to connect the band to dexterity game Kabuto Sumo, where you play as wrestling beetles. Then we discuss one of our surprise GenCon pickups with Richard Garfield’s The Hunger (part Clank!, part commentary on the dietary habits of vampires). On Off-Brand we discuss our l...
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4 years ago
1 hour 36 minutes

Harvest Phase
Top Ten Gen Con Top Ten Lists
We unravel tales about our experience at Gen Con. Discuss food trucks, exhibit halls, the fears of demoing your own game, and what we picked up. In the ensuing chaos we somehow craft the definitive Top Ten List of Five Perfect Games and the Top Ten List of One Underrated Games. We did play one game of Cascadia this week, and we give our thoughts while comparing it to Calico. Pardon the lack of time stamps, but this one goes places. Gen Con Pick Ups Discussion: Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedi...
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4 years ago
1 hour 36 minutes

Harvest Phase
Welcome to the Bri-light Zone
We have friend and game designer Brian Lewis on to discuss some of his favorite games, inspiration as a game designer, how we all met, and some the origins of Dinosaur Island. During the second half, we discuss the influences on Dinosaur Island: Rawr ‘N Write. We reference Fleet: The Dice Game, Uwe Rosenberg (Surprise!) the awesome feedback and play testing during Gen Con 2019, and how a piece of graph paper suddenly turned into a game. I started this episode wanting to ask the hard question,...
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4 years ago
1 hour 36 minutes

Harvest Phase
The Annals of Lawrence Longstring and His Feast For Odin
Another super fast week sees us playing a handful of new games and breaking out some old classics. We attempt to deduce why I am so successful at finding Planet X, wonder how to mind slip through the work week, realize that our prowess at a board game about cooking does not translate into the kitchen, and wonder why we should make wine when you can give tours of a barren wasteland and still achieve a commendable score. In addition, a legend is created while using sand timers to create A Feast...
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4 years ago
2 hours 27 minutes

Harvest Phase
Quantitatively Easing Into The Reality That We Are Headed To Fight a Dragon
It’s been an exhausting week, and it’s only Tuesday. We gather tiles to score points, auction things to score points, and silently contemplate (off mic and through gestures) if Monikers is PG13 or R rated. Off Brand takes the week off, but our usual nonsense is even more nonsensical as we make every effort to keep focus amid our lack of sleep and complete exhaustion. Fresh Plays: 03:40 Sushi Go Party (Phil Walker-Harding) 11:05 Monikers (Alex Hague, Justin Vickers, CMYK) 24:18 dude. (...
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4 years ago
1 hour 14 minutes

Harvest Phase
On Quilts No One Can Hear You Purr
While playing Calico, Riverboat, Impact, and Alien, we discover that courting cats to take naps on lovely quilts is far more anxiety inducing than, managing a farm on the Mississippi, wrestling a Xenomorph on a derelict spacecraft, and creating the entire cosmos. We then theorize that the cat on the cover of Calico is, in fact, the untold fate of Jonesy, the Nostromo’s ship cat. Finally, in Off Brand we discuss how we feel some games “respect” the player through design decisions, and I rant a...
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4 years ago
1 hour 53 minutes

Harvest Phase
We are back for what we hope isn’t a one off episode. Our goal is an episode a month as we get our sea legs with parenthood, playing games, and just the day to day drudgery of the 9-5. What a way to make a livin’. We spit ball about games that we have played over the past three months in “Quick Fire” fashion. Some we liked, some we didn’t, and one was a surprising disappointment. I used Craiyon to generate the cover by typing the phrase, “Ark Nova is not our jam.” Feel free to jump over there...