Our special guest this week is Kirk Hamilton, host of the podcast Strong Songs. What makes a song great? Is it the “thump, pop, and sizzle” of the drum groove, power chords, lush 7ths and 9ths? Kirk uses music theory, history, and isolates patterns to break down songs you’ve heard before and help you understand WHY they’re great.
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This week, we welcome Deon Mixon, creator of a game called Design Eye, a graphic design education board game that is all about creativity – “for people with great ideas”.
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Matt Riddle (along with his co-designer Ben Pinchback) is one of our favorite game designers. He has co-designed over 20 “notable” games
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This week on the show we have Marc Spagnuolo, the Wood Whisperer – he is definitely a nerd as well as being a wood worker. We talk about what we’ve been playing and how to get kids involved in your hobbies.
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This week, we are pleased to welcome Danielle, known for her Youtube channel Board Game Bakes.
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Andrew just got back from PAX Unplugged, and we’ve got a show for you! Interviews from Pandasaurus, SlugFest Games, CGE, KOSMOS, and Gamewright.
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It’s boardgame convention season. We’re not actually attending GenCon or Origins this year, but we’ve still got some interviews with some of the creators of hot new games.
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This week we welcome Vince Vergonjeanne, one of our “favorite human beings in board games”, and the founder/CEO of Lucky Duck Games.
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This week on the show, we have a dear friend of ours who has been making a name for himself on TikTok in a crazy way – pipe organ videos!
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This week on the podcast we have the Tabletop Bellhop himself, Moe Tousignant. What is The Tabletop Bellhop? How it can help you?
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We continue our gameschooling series by interviewing the student himself, our son Asher. 249 Fact – “Lot No. 249” is a Gothic horror short story by Arthur Conan Doyle. Read it here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/Lot_No._249 Sponsor message: If you want to talk to First Move about other habits you can build to take that next step toward your goals, go to firstmovefinancial.com/familygamers to schedule a call. What
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Jonathan designed several of our family’s favorite games, including Filler, Stroop, and The Kringle Caper. He tells us a bit more about those, and about his newest micro-escape room, The Independence Incident.
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Once a quarter, we welcome a guest to the show who has NOTHING to do with board games, but is still awesome. This week, for our first episode of Outside Board Games, we welcome author Rajani LaRocca.
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This week, we welcome James Hudson, friend of the Family Gamers and part of Skybound Games publishing. Also, it’s become tradition – James on the ’39s!
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Rory O’Connor shares with us his recent experiments in storytelling, using the Untold system to flesh out the world of Prisma Arena and as a framework to run a solo D&D campaign.
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We’re not known for doing anything in only a minute, but Sarah Shah is. She created “Board Games in a Minute” videos!
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On this episode, we talk with Alex Radcliffe, founder of BoardGameCo and ambassador for boardgames all over the internet. His mission is spreading the love of board games and we just love it.
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Dan Hughes tells us about CoraQuest. What started as a pandemic homeschool project with 8-year-old Cora has now become a full-fledged family dungeon crawl you can support on Kickstarter!
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