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60 – The Family Gamers Podcast – GenCon, or GenCan’t?

August 22, 2017 Updated: October 16th, 2017 Anitra Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

What We’ve Been Playing: Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime Robo Diner Purrrlock Holmes Set Windup War Qwingo Roll Player Batman Fluxx H.I.D.E. Potion Explosion Silly Street GenCon: Whistle Stop Our listener Nick M (@ShredDemon) tweeted us a selfie with Andy Geremia! His highlights include: Fireball island from Restoration Games was the most exciting news for me. (Remake of Fireball

gencon, Tabletop Games

59 – The Family Gamers Podcast – Chris Anderson

August 14, 2017 Anitra Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

Chris Anderson on Game Design

This week’s interview is with Chris Anderson, a board game designer (Blue Cube Board Games) and host of The Board Game Workshop podcast.

Blue Cube Board Games, Button Shy Games, Chris Anderson, game design, Interview, wallet games

58 – The Family Gamers Podcast – Camping Games

August 7, 2017 Anitra Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

Camping Games

As we mentioned last week, we’ve been camping! We talk about several camping-themed games from Education Outdoors.

camping, card games, Education Outdoors, educational games, Family Gaming

57.5 – The Family Gamers NOTcast

July 31, 2017 Anitra Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

We are not here. We are camping! No electricity means no computers, no microphones, no podcast. We will be back next week with a great episode centered around games to play when camping, of course.

57 – The Family Gamers Podcast – Andy Geremia Redux

July 24, 2017 Anitra Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

Andy Geremia

We’ve brought Andy back on the show to talk about two new games he has coming out now from FunWiz (a division of FoxMind), Brew Dice and Sports Dice: Baseball.

Andy Geremia, dice, Interview

56 – The Family Gamers Podcast – Top 5 Games To Teach How To Play Games

July 17, 2017 Anitra Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

We are all about teaching our kids (and others) to play games. But how do you teach skills that are integral to good game-playing: concepts like logical deduction, planning ahead, and making strategic choices? With games, of course! We highlight our top 5 games to teach game-playing skills.

educational games, Family Gaming

55 – The Family Gamers Podcast – Chris Nichols, Card Caddy Inventor

July 10, 2017 Anitra Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

Chris Nichols

It’s an odd-numbered show, so that means we have a guest! This week, it is Chris Nichols, inventor of The Card Caddy. The Card Caddy was born of necessity; when Chris’s son was younger, he wanted to play Uno everywhere. The cards were always getting mangled by rubber bands, or slipping out of the crummy paperboard box to scatter everywhere.

Card Caddy, card games, Chris Nichols, Interview

54 – The Family Gamers – Top Games to Play Outside

July 2, 2017 Anitra Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

Picnic table

On this episode, we discuss what makes a board game good for playing outside, like at a picnic!

Family Games, outdoor games, Tabletop Games

53 – The Family Gamers Podcast – Marc Specter of Grand Gamers Guild

June 26, 2017 Anitra Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

Grand Gamers Guild

We interview Marc Specter, the man behind Grand Gamers Guild, and their games Pocket Ops, Unreal Estate, and Stroop.

Grand Gamers Guild, Interview, Kickstarter, marc specter

52 – The Family Gamers Podcast – Origins and E3

June 19, 2017 Anitra Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

Summer is on its way; some of the larger board game and video game events are happening this time of year. We talk about the news that interested us from Origins Game Fair and the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3).

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51 – The Family Gamers Podcast – Donovan Eberling and Jeff James

June 12, 2017 Anitra Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

Donovan and Jeff

Donovan Eberling and Jeff James are the founders of Iron Hippo Games and co-creators (or maybe “architects”) of Tournament of Towers, a dexterity game now on Kickstarter.

Family Games, Family Gaming, Interview, Iron Hippo Games, Kickstarter, rule-shifting, Tournament of Towers

50 – The Family Gamers Podcast – Reflections, the meta-podcast

June 5, 2017 Anitra Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

Reflections

Welcome to episode 50! We’ve been doing The Family Gamers Podcast for quite a while, and thought we would take an opportunity to look back, especially at a few of our early episodes.

Best of 2015, Best of 2016, family, Family Gaming, Kiwi Crate, LEGO, Screen Time, Tabletop Games, Video Games

49 – The Family Gamers Podcast – Rory O’Connor

May 29, 2017 Anitra Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

Rory O'Connor and Andrew

We are so excited to interview Rory O’Connor, of Rory’s Story Cubes fame!

Hub Games, Interview, Rory O'Connor, Story Cubes

48 – The Family Gamers Podcast – Restaurant Games

May 22, 2017 Updated: May 31st, 2017 Anitra Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

Restaurant Games

Waiting around at a restaurant is so boring. What do you do to pass the time with your hungry children? Well, if you are The Family Gamers, you play games, of course! What is your favorite game to play in a restaurant?

Board Games, Date Night, Tabletop, travel

47 – The Family Gamers Podcast – BattleGoats giveaway

May 15, 2017 Updated: May 31st, 2017 Anitra Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

On this super-short episode, we talk Mother’s Day and reveal the winner of our BattleGoats giveaway. What did you do with your Mom (or mother-figure) on Sunday? We played Castle Panic with our kids (and called/visited our moms, of course).

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46 – The Family Gamers Podcast – Video Game Vocabulary

May 8, 2017 Updated: May 31st, 2017 Anitra Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

mario, end of world 1-3

MMO and RTS and FPS, oh my! What is a platformer? Should my toddler play a sandbox game? We define a few common video game terms and abbreviations.

Video Games

45 – The Family Gamers Podcast – Tucker Smedes – CardLords

May 1, 2017 Updated: May 31st, 2017 Anitra Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

CardLords

On this short podcast, Andrew talks to Tucker Smedes at CardLords, the creator of the game BattleGoats and their new game, Take the Gold.

BattleGoats, CardLords, casual games, Interview

44 – The Family Gamers Podcast – Hosting a Game Night

April 24, 2017 Updated: May 31st, 2017 Anitra Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

Worlds Fair Board

What do you do if you have been trying to get a group together to play boardgames, and suddenly you have more players than one game can fit? Host a game night, of course!

game night

43 – The Family Gamers Podcast – Jeff Johnston Interview

April 17, 2017 Updated: May 31st, 2017 Anitra Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

Jeff Johston

Jeff Johnston designs games as a hobby. He is the mind behind Pair of Jacks Games, and Anitra sat down with him at Granite Game Summit 2017 to talk about 3 of his published games: MoonQuake Escape , Flashlights & Fireflies, and Toasted or Roasted. MoonQuake Escape is published by Breaking Games. Plot your escape from an alien prison.

Breaking Games, Education Outdoors, Gamewright, Interview, jeff johnston, MoonQuake Escape

42 – The Family Gamers Podcast – Granite Game Summit

April 11, 2017 Updated: May 31st, 2017 Anitra Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

Granite Game Summit

This past weekend, Anitra attended Granite Game Summit 2017 in Nashua, NH. It was a lot of fun, but also very different from the type of events we normally attend as The Family Gamers. We discuss what G2S was like, highlights of the show, and what else happened in our family the past two weeks.

Board Games, G2S, G2S17, Tabletop Games

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