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69 – The Family Gamers Podcast – Top Video Game Gifts for 2017 – with Stephen Duetzmann

October 24, 2017 Updated: November 7th, 2019 Andrew Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

Top 10 Video Game Gifts for 2017

Welcome Stephen Duetzmann from Engaged Family Gaming this week! Since EFG has already released their holiday gift guide, we decided that Stephen would be an excellent resource for our listeners. We present our top ten(ish) video game purchases for your family this holiday season. What We’ve Been Playing Stephen has been really enjoying Tail Feathers with his older son (11

Best of 2017, Engaged Family Gaming, gifts, Screen Time, Stephen Duetzmann, Video Games

68 – The Family Gamers Podcast – Four Frightfully Fun Finds For Halloween

October 16, 2017 Updated: February 6th, 2018 Anitra Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

Four Frightfully Fun Finds (for Halloween)

We’ve been looking for games that capture some of the spooky feeling of the Halloween season, without being too scary or too difficult for younger children. We cover four of our favorites, recommendations from our listeners, and give the run-down of what we’ve been playing.

For Science!, halloween, potion explosion, spooky, zombie dice

67 – The Family Gamers Podcast – Scream or Die Interview

October 9, 2017 Anitra Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

Scream or Die

We have a great Halloween-themed game to share with you this week. Dennis Michael Sawyers from Amber Palace Games joins us. His game Scream or Die is a family-friendly dice game for 2-8 players.

Amber Palace Games, dice, Interview

66 – The Family Gamers Podcast – Dice, Dice, Baby! Our Top 3 Dice Games!

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

dice

We’ve been doing dice game reviews, and we’ve got dice on the brain this week! Listen as Andrew and Anitra each list their top 3 dice games.

dice

65 – The Family Gamers Podcast – Boston FIG 2017

September 25, 2017 Anitra Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

It’s our favorite time of year! We discuss our favorite games from Boston FIG, with special guest, Corey Lagunowich. Then, listen to interviews from the show floor with Andrew.

Boston FIG, Interview, Tabletop, Video Games

64 – The Family Gamers Podcast – Meeples Like Me!

September 19, 2017 Updated: March 13th, 2025 Anitra Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

Meeples Like Me!

It’s been quite a week! We define a handful of board game terms (what’s a meeple?) and talk about lots of games we’ve been playing. Andrew describes his recent cooking experiment “FOR SCIENCE” and we share a big announcement!

4X, deck building, deduction, dice, For Science!, meeple, press your luck, Tabletop Games, terms

63 – The Family Gamers Podcast – Potato Pirates with Aditya Batura

September 11, 2017 Updated: September 22nd, 2017 Anitra Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

Potato Pirates

Aditya Batura is co-founder and CEO of Codomo Inc., a technology education group based in Singapore. They teach children about programming at an age-appropriate level, and wanted to bring that to a larger community. Enter Potato Pirates, the game that “teaches 10 hours of programming in 30 minutes”.

card games, Codomo, educational games, Interview, pirates

62 – The Family Gamers Podcast – Top 5 Games from Target

September 4, 2017 Anitra Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

Top 5 Games From Target

Sometimes you just need to buy a game in person, whether it’s because you don’t want to buy online or because you need to pick up a last-minute present. We share with you our top games that we found at our local Target store.

Board Games, card games, Family Games, gifts, Tabletop Games, Target

61 – The Family Gamers Podcast – After School Board Game Club with Liz

August 28, 2017 Anitra Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

After School Board Game Club

This time we have a special guest in the studio! Our friend Liz Kelley is a staff writer for The Family Gamers website, but she’s also a teacher. Since school starts this time of year, we wanted to talk to her about something special: she coaches the board game club at her school.

educational games, Interview, Liz, school, Tabletop

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).

e3, mysterious forest, origins

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

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