312 – ESSEN Excitement!
Andrew’s going to Essen for Spiel ’22! We pick 15 games that we’re really excited to see.
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311 – Flat River Group with Colin Young
Colin Young is a friend of The Family Gamers, and part of Flat River Group. What’s FRG? “”
» Read more310 – Top-Rated Games – The Family Gamers Podcast
We’ve been reviewing games for a long time, and have rated about a dozen games as “perfect” and about twice as many as “almost perfect”. Do those ratings hold up?
» Read more31 – The Family Gamers Podcast – Gift Guide 2016
It’s that time of year again. If you are wondering what games make good gifts, we are here to help! We also played a few new-to-us and new-to-the-show games this week.
» Read more309 – Unmatched Digital with Suzanne Sheldon – The Family Gamers Podcast
Welcome Suz! Restoration Games is releasing a digital version of their hit game Unmatched, and we’ll talk about it today.
» Read more308 – Different Ways to Adventure with Board Games
This week, we’re talking about adventure! What games make you feel like you’re going on an adventure? There are more ways to accomplish this feeling than you might think.
» Read more307 – Jon Manker and Pax Viking – The Family Gamers Podcast
Jon is the co-founder of Ion Game Design, making board games “based on reality”. Although most are quite complex (Pax Viking, Sammu-ramat), there are some family-oriented games just around the corner…
» Read more306 – Room to Grow: Dice Set Collection – The Family Gamers Podcast
What is dice set collection? Think Yahtzee. You’re rolling dice, usually with some re-rolls allowed, trying to get a certain result spread out among many dice (a straight, two/three/four of a kind, etc.)
» Read more305 – GenCon 2022 with Nick – The Family Gamers Podcast
It’s time for GenCon! Nick went for just one day this year, and shares with us the highlights from his whirlwind tour.
» Read more304 – Computational Thinking – The Family Gamers Podcast
Andrew & Anitra are programmers by training. Can we tease apart some of the skills that build a programming mindset, and hone them through games?
» Read more303 – Beyond Board Games: Open Roading
This podcast has almost nothing to do with board games! Four years ago Joe and Kalyn sold their house and bought an RV. It requires a lot of planning…
» Read more302 – How to Raise Little Gamers – The Family Gamers Podcast
“One of the best ways to get your kids excited about doing something is by being excited about doing something.” Can you get your kids to love games the way you do?
» Read more301 – Board Game Day with Ambie Valdés – The Family Gamers Podcast
Welcome Ambie Valdés to the podcast! How did she get from writing song parodies to a children’s board book?
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30 – The Family Gamers Podcast – Winning
Do you let your kids win? That’s our pressing question for the week. How do you teach graceful winning and losing?
» Read more3 Ring Circus
Take on the role of a circus director who tours the United States at the end of the 19th century.
» Read more3 of a Kind: Kinda-Like This!
3 Of A Kind taglines itself as “a party game of creative connections” and we expected a silly good time. We found in playing the game that this is exactly what happened. Sometimes.
» Read more299 – Dani Effertz, Sovranti – The Family Gamers Podcast
Sovranti is a digital board game app allowing friends to play board games across the world. Dani is the community manager for Sovranti, and she’s going to tell us more about it!
» Read more298 – Looking Forward to Summer – The Family Gamers Podcast
This week, we’re looking forward to summer, with resources for playing games with kids, and a short discussion of what we’re looking forward to playing with our extra time.
» Read more297 – Kevin & Melissa Delp, Tantrum House – The Family Gamers Podcast
Today on the podcast, we welcome Kevin and Melissa Delp, part of the team at Tantrum House. Fact – Clematis is a type of flowering plant – which currently has 297 species. What We’ve Been Playing Skyrise (Roxley)Under Falling Skies (CGE – our review)UNDO: Forbidden Knowledge (Pegasus Spiele – review coming soon)Space Station Phoenix (Rio Grande)Rear Window (Funko Games)Batman: Everybody
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