Year End Update 2024

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摘要

TLDRIn this discussion, the hosts reflect on the end of the year, the holidays, and their activities in creating and playing board games. They share how it feels like the year is ending due to the break in their work schedule, even though technically there are a couple of weeks left. They talk fondly about sleeping in during the holidays due to not having to wake up early for school runs. They recount playing various games throughout the year, saying that some of the games aren't necessarily new but were new experiences for them. They reminisce about having more game launches this year than in the past three years combined, noting what a significant achievement this has been. The conversation also includes some reflections on their friendship and working relationship, lighthearted anecdotes, and discussions about future plans, including potentially launching more games next year. Live, they've made the year memorable and look forward to more gaming and community interaction in the future.

心得

  • ☕️ It's the end of the year and time for a holiday break.
  • 🎮 Discussing favorite games played during the year.
  • 🎲 More game launches than the past three years combined.
  • 🏡 Sharing holiday plans and plans with family.
  • 🕹 The joy of work is in creating games and building community.
  • 🔜 Excitement for launching new games next year.
  • 🤝 Reflections on friendships and working relationships.
  • 🧩 Discussing gaming preferences and quality.
  • 🌟 Community engagement is a favorite part of game development.
  • 🚀 Looking forward to more achievements in the coming year.

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  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    Året nærmer sig sin afslutning, og der er en refleksion over de spil, der blev spillet i løbet af året 2024. Selvom ikke alle spil var nye i året, er der en nostalgi omkring dem, der blev spillet. Diskussionen drejer sig omkring favoritter og hvilke der skabte mest glæde, samt planerne om kommende ferier og nytårsfester. Venskab og gamle minder bliver også fremhævet, og tanken om at arrangere nytårsfester som i gamle dage opstår, men nu med børn er planerne mere afdæmpede.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    Der er en åben diskussion om, hvilke spil der lanceredes eller blev udvidet i år, og hvordan dette påvirkede virksomheden. Specifikke spil som 'Brink' og 'Tend' nævnes som favoritter, og der er en anerkendelse af overgangen fra en kommerciel animationsforretning til fuldt fokus på spiludvikling. Der er også nogle lette klager over arbejdspres i ferieperioden, samt sjove bemærkninger om Instagram-kommentarer rundt deres offentlige fremtoning.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Samtalen fortsætter med at evaluere de mest mindeværdige spiloplevelser i 2024. Spil som 'Scout' og 'Skyrise' nævnes som personlige favoritter, mens andre spil som 'Star Tycoon' og 'Andromeda's Edge' fremhæves for deres unikke mekanikker og engagement. Samtalen afsporer nogle gange til humoristiske anekdoter og personlige præferencer i spil, og der gives også indrømmelser vedrørende spil, som nogle var skuffede over, eller som havde blandede følelser på grund af komplekse mekanismer.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:23:28

    Afslutningsvis diskuteres forventninger og planer for det nye år 2025, herunder kommende spiludgivelser og designbestræbelser. Der er en følelse af optimisme omkring fremtidige projekter og den retning, virksomheden tager. Der lægges vægt på glæden ved at skabe spil, de personlige bånd, der er dannet gennem årene, og det potentiale, det næste år har. Taknemlighed for støtten fra fællesskabet fremhæves kraftigt, og man ser frem til et spændende nyt år.

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视频问答

  • What did the hosts discuss in the video?

    They discussed their favorite games of the year, plans for the holidays, and future projects.

  • Did they play new games this year?

    Yes, they played several games, some of which were not technically new this year.

  • What are their plans for the holidays?

    They plan to relax, spend time with family, and possibly attend smaller gatherings.

  • Are they going to launch new games next year?

    Yes, they have plans to launch multiple games in the upcoming year.

  • Which games did they mention specifically?

    They mentioned games like Scout, Skyrise, Star Tycoon, and the new game Scales of Fate.

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  • 00:00:00
    so that's it the year is over I think
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    it's still got like 15 days that's true
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    but it feels like the year is over
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    because we only have at the time of this
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    recording two more work days and then we
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    go for the long
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    sleep not that long the medium SLE did
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    you just sleep in a lot during Christmas
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    uh yes we have kids so so no but more
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    than usual which is great it's all I
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    need kids don't have to wake up at 6:30
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    to go to school I know exactly they wake
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    up at 7 that half hour is like
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    it's all I need it's all I need uh so
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    we're going to talk about our favorite
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    games that we played this year for the
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    time they might not be new technically
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    this year play many games as you do
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    because we're playing the games we're
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    trying to make yes so we're we're going
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    to talk about that we're just going to
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    reminisce being a little bit nostalgic
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    about this year of
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    2024 yep the problem is is when I look
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    back at the games we played together
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    it's most often in our games and you
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    just crushed me in our games this year
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    BR especially it's a great year so
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    that's that's not a good year um but
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    yeah and then we'll do some honorable
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    mentions and then uh and then we'll let
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    you all go enjoy your uh your
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    Christmases yeah or other any other
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    holidays you may be celebrating um and
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    yeah you got any plans you used to do
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    you used to do New Year's Eve parties
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    and Austin used to always try to get me
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    to his New Year's Eve parties I threw
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    bashes they were huge they were awesome
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    that you were only an hour and a half
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    away and you didn't come once did I ever
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    come no you didn't come once feels like
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    I invited you four years in a row it
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    feels like you came and now we're old
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    and have kids I am Stephanie and Ryan
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    are coming you can come over if you want
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    it's not going to be a bash I don't know
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    what we're doing yet so no I I doubt
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    it's going to be a big thing we might be
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    Pennsylvania from oh you definitely
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    should yeah I mean that would be that
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    would be a drive it' be a lot longer
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    than an hour and a half uh someday I'll
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    make it to your New Jersey party Austin
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    the old age home I am banking on us
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    playing games and throwing nearest
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    bashes in the old age home so I'm busy
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    that night though um years from now I
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    got a different party to go to oh man
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    okay so this year this year we launched
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    more games than we had in the previous
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    three years yes we did uh which was a
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    lot it was a lot um we did well I guess
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    Tech technically was last year I was
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    going to say Moon rollers so it's
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    technically not true but we did build
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    fate expansions yes we did a a small
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    expansion for fractured Sky mhm maybe
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    some more coming on that later and then
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    uh we had Brink yes and then we did 10
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    yeah a great year do you are you allowed
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    to talk about your favorite is that like
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    picking your favorite kid I mean I I
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    think Brink is my favorite of our games
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    well no tend is probably my favorite you
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    know like it's just like I don't know I
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    I think tend is our best game but if you
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    sat me down you're like do you want to
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    play Brink or tend I think I would
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    choose prink tend is so fun though it's
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    impossible to pick I can't I can't do it
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    they're so different they're not even
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    close to the anyway we don't need to
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    tutor on horn let's talk about other
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    people's games yeah uh well first of all
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    I also wanted to say oh this wasn't the
  • 00:03:00
    big big difference for you but this was
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    this marks one year for me of not
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    directing commercial work that's true um
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    so I used to be a commercial animation
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    creative director and that used to be a
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    big focus of our business we um spun
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    that off as hey neighbor um which our
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    good friends and uh former co-workers
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    Nate and Rachel are doing that um and
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    this marks about a year where um I've
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    I've now I've been full-time making
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    games so it it feels it's really fun I'm
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    really stoked and blessed to be able to
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    to do that um people have asked me how
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    have you guys upped production so much
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    and there's no way we could have done it
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    there's no way we could have done it
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    when you were doing commercial work yeah
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    no I miss I miss um we have you know had
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    very wonderful clients I miss those
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    people but I I much I I prefer you as as
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    our client despite the angry Instagram
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    comments okay but also you don't get
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    like messages on Thursday before
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    Christmas hey I need this change that I
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    didn't tell you about and I need it done
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    in the next 24 hours I know but that
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    happened several Christmases ago but I
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    do get people telling me I look like
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    Louis CK and all the time what is which
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    is worse really I mean if you just don't
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    read the comments this is definitely
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    better you know I post our Instagram
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    stuff so I read comments stuffs now see
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    if I this is a St S effect now people
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    are just you made a mistake this is a
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    huge mistake Z started saying if I had
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    my brothers and so I started saying hey
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    Sam can you ban Zach from saying that
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    cuz I really hate it and now everyone on
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    the team says if I had my brothers to me
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    just don't bring up things you're not a
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    fan of because then people just ruin
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    your life if I had my brothers no one
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    would say I look like Louis CK
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    anymore um I have never said that one I
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    don't think you look like L CK but other
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    than
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    that yeah yeah anyways let's about you
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    also get what's the musician's name bone
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    oh I get it like uh the all the gingers
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    all any red head people have said I've
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    looked like that so Swanson no no uh Ron
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    Ron from Harry Potter oh yeah yeah I've
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    gotten that I've gotten bony be I've
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    gotten who's the super famous uh
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    Ed yes I get that a lot I don't come on
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    people come on be more original come on
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    okay all right what's your what's your
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    game of the year okay I don't I don't
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    have okay
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    we didn't play the hot all the hot games
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    so here here's the problem I've started
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    I I feel like I'm pickier now not that I
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    think there are bad games it's just like
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    we spend all these time all this time
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    just making the very specific type of
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    game that we like and now I'm just like
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    well I would change that not that say
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    that like my change would be better than
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    what the game is it's just like better
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    for you yeah better for me specifically
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    so now we just like hand curate games
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    that we love and so it's like it's hard
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    to like uh it it just made me more picky
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    of just like oh you I might change that
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    our job me you and Max and sometimes
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    other people working together on a zoom
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    call is to nitpick things we don't like
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    and fix it Y and it's really hard to
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    come out of that mode because I'll be
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    playing a game be like oh man I wouldn't
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    have done it this way and then I have to
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    be like oh I hope no one heard that uh
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    cuz it's just like you you have to
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    develop your taste in order to design
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    games and that doesn't mean other games
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    are bad and in fact sometimes a game
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    just really surprises you and you're
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    like I wouldn't change a thing about
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    this do you have any of those oh yeah I
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    mean I but from this year from this year
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    yeah I mean those are going to be my top
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    games wouldn't change any so I've got my
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    my like these are just like games that
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    we played this year that we loved yeah
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    pick a top two and then do some
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    honorable mentions I'm fun with that
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    yeah um so I'll go first um my top one
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    of my top two is a smaller little game
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    it's not that hot of a take because want
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    a Spiel it' be Scout yes wow yeah I
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    liked it fine but it wasn't like o yeah
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    we played it a lot on my family vacation
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    with my family I thought it was a really
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    easy teach they loved it I loved it I
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    feel like there's this really nice
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    element where I just love the the
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    pushiness like the almost push your luck
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    element of like trying to draw into your
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    hand to make this amazing huge run I
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    love the thrill of being able to pull
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    that off and then also the pain of not
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    pulling it off and just getting stuck
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    with a bunch of points it's a very fun
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    Push Pull uh yeah I it's small but I
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    love it my family game was Trio this
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    year and Trio would get an honorable
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    mention for me okay I would much prefer
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    to have NaNa which is I think the
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    Japanese original version so if you have
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    a link to where I can buy Nana I'm I'm
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    here for it uh there's also apparently
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    Nana Christmas which I don't know why I
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    don't think it's any different um we
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    should make Christmas themes of all of
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    our games Christmas failed fate we just
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    put Santa hats on everybody it's great
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    that would work bill bendo could wear a
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    Santa hat for sure yeah uh it's a deck
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    builder but you're drafting
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    reindeer that's a game that's a game if
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    you find Rudolph you win he'll guide
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    your sleigh at
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    night I don't know how that all right
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    I'm going to cut that off uh one of my
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    top games of the year should not be a
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    surprise to people that know me because
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    I love Lord of the Rings and I already
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    loved Seven Wonders duel and Lord of the
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    Rings duel obviously came out I got to
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    play that with Devon a couple of weeks
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    ago and I loved it Devon from Devon
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    talks tabletop and from Lucky Duck yes
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    he he was in town for a flight and we
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    hung out and played and it was very very
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    good and I'd been trying to play it at
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    cons for like 3 months and I would sit
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    down with it and then someone else would
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    be like hey what we play it and it's a
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    two-player game so you're not going to
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    be like you can't play with us and so
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    we'd put that away and get something
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    else out so I had never played it until
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    then and it was it was it lived up to my
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    hype expectations because it was Seven
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    Wonders duel with Lord of the Rings on
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    top of it in a way that made it feel
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    like Lord of the Rings not just a bad
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    version or worse version of 7even
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    Wonders D so still still going to play
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    we should play it sometime it's it's in
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    my bag out there all right so we'll play
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    it what you got next my other of my my
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    top two new to me games okay this year
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    would be skyrise I really enjoyed it oh
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    I I liked it too but it's definitely not
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    it's not my top wow I thought you were
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    going to say the gang no no no that's an
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    I I have I have some thoughts about the
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    gang but okay skyrise is elegant it's
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    got It's got a lot of good uh pieces we
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    got the deluxe version of course we did
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    it's beautiful it's beautiful um love
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    love love me some bidding is that roxley
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    they always do good stuff I think so
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    love me some bidding um it it it it kind
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    of scratches a similar itch of like
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    foundations of Rome to me um but like
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    kind of in in a fun new package this
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    like it's has this traveling bidding me
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    mechanism where you're placing like
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    progressively taller buildings and then
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    like it has this weird not area control
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    but it's like the the board State really
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    matters it's it's very interesting it's
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    like where you are on the board matters
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    but it's also a progressively higher
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    bidding game
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    um very clever core mechanic and I think
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    it doesn't get too busy for its premise
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    like I think it's like it's very well
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    tuned um a very well tuned game um and I
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    really enjoy it so I my next choice I'm
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    a little torn I think that I'm going to
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    choose a game called star Tycoon did you
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    play this
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    um no okay star Tycoon we got at Gen Con
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    nice and I played it again at packs
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    unplugged oh yeah I saw you playing that
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    looked cool and it's just like uh an
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    open market like you buy and things get
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    you know more expensive you sell and
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    things get cheaper and like you have
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    special abilities and you're you're D
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    like you're getting planets and and
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    factories and all this kind of stuff and
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    I just really think it's it it hits the
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    right marks for me of like I have my
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    turn I have this many actions like you
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    just you have a big set of actions you
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    could take you get take three of them so
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    you're just like okay I'm going to do
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    these three things boom boom boom I'm
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    done if you get the right group you can
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    play pretty Snappy um now PA at 1:00
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    a.m. was not very Snappy but that that's
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    just packs at 1 a.m. I don't think
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    that's the game's fault so um but yeah I
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    was a big fan of it I really really
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    liked it if you like market economy type
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    games I think that's a really great one
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    to pick up yes all right moving on to
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    honorable mentions now do we have any
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    crossovers I don't know I think you have
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    the gang right I do have the gang but
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    talk about your quals with the gang cuz
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    the gang is also my honorable I like the
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    gang to me is like is is it would have
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    made it into my tops if like I so the
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    gang if you're unfamiliar it's pretty
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    simple PR premise you're playing Texas
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    holdom uh and you uh are trying to it's
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    a co-op game and you're basically trying
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    to order without showing each other the
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    two cards that you have you're trying to
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    like properly order your strength of
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    hands by taking taking chips saying like
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    I have the best hand and then you got to
  • 00:11:56
    like figure it out just based on what's
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    comes out I think it's amazing I think
  • 00:11:59
    that that like is such a clever concept
  • 00:12:01
    it builds a game that like most people
  • 00:12:03
    know um my only qual with it is like
  • 00:12:06
    some of the like it adds these like
  • 00:12:07
    difficulty or like easier modifiers and
  • 00:12:10
    I think some of them are just not super
  • 00:12:13
    interesting and or just like ones where
  • 00:12:15
    I'm just like I wouldn't play with that
  • 00:12:17
    I would just rip that one in half yes so
  • 00:12:20
    background changing was
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    that
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    who I want I think someone's messing
  • 00:12:29
    with us hold
  • 00:12:31
    [Laughter]
  • 00:12:49
    on well Lily was screwing with our
  • 00:12:53
    screens
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    well while you're not
  • 00:13:07
    here I don't have anything to say happy
  • 00:13:10
    merry holiday Christmas K Quanza I
  • 00:13:14
    didn't say k Quanza earlier that's the
  • 00:13:15
    one I
  • 00:13:17
    missed
  • 00:13:18
    uh the end of the year is relatively
  • 00:13:21
    boring I'm doing that reporting right
  • 00:13:23
    now there's a lot of things about making
  • 00:13:25
    board games that is not very glamorous
  • 00:13:27
    taxes is definitely the worst first one
  • 00:13:30
    well taxes and international shipping
  • 00:13:32
    are up there those are annoying what's
  • 00:13:35
    the best part of making games the
  • 00:13:38
    community that we built on Discord
  • 00:13:41
    during the pandemic and then that became
  • 00:13:44
    real life friends at cons and things
  • 00:13:46
    like that I think is my favorite part of
  • 00:13:47
    making games second part is probably
  • 00:13:49
    just making games making games is very
  • 00:13:52
    fun uh getting work with Zach it's
  • 00:13:54
    really fun we've been friends for oh
  • 00:14:04
    gosh it's almost 20 is that right
  • 00:14:07
    there's no way it's almost 20 years we
  • 00:14:09
    met in
  • 00:14:14
    2008
  • 00:14:17
    2008 why can't I math right now 16 years
  • 00:14:22
    16 years me and Zach have been friends
  • 00:14:24
    for 16 years making games together for
  • 00:14:27
    five years
  • 00:14:31
    was ly Lily screwing stuff up MH
  • 00:14:35
    yeah wait so where do we leave off I was
  • 00:14:37
    talking about our friendship I don't
  • 00:14:38
    know oh wow am I that in there no I
  • 00:14:41
    spent like 10 minutes trying to figure
  • 00:14:42
    out how long we've known each other I
  • 00:14:43
    think it's 16 years is it really that
  • 00:14:47
    long 2008 right a friendship can
  • 00:14:52
    drive it's 2008 right yeah and it's 2024
  • 00:14:55
    almost
  • 00:14:56
    2025 wow so that's 17 years almost it's
  • 00:15:00
    a lot of years yeah they can drive now
  • 00:15:02
    our friendship yeah they can almost vote
  • 00:15:04
    I wouldn't
  • 00:15:07
    that's they shouldn't let our friendship
  • 00:15:09
    vote no no definitely not that's
  • 00:15:11
    election
  • 00:15:15
    fraud go
  • 00:15:17
    back
  • 00:15:19
    um you were talking about the gang and
  • 00:15:21
    how you hated it oh I did I know I love
  • 00:15:23
    the gang and it's like it like honestly
  • 00:15:25
    it's like it's like so close to a
  • 00:15:27
    perfect tin that it makes me makes me
  • 00:15:29
    mad cuz I'm just like it's like I love
  • 00:15:31
    playing it so much and like I almost
  • 00:15:34
    want to like build another game on top
  • 00:15:35
    of it which would be so fun but anyways
  • 00:15:37
    by the gang it's amazing all right have
  • 00:15:39
    you played Loop and Louie no Loop and
  • 00:15:41
    chewy no or keep upy you making this up
  • 00:15:45
    right now KB is for Bluey yes so it's a
  • 00:15:48
    game where you have three things and
  • 00:15:50
    like little paddles and there's a
  • 00:15:52
    balloon or a plane or a Millennium
  • 00:15:54
    Falcon that goes around in a circle on a
  • 00:15:55
    motorized thing and you hit a a paddle
  • 00:15:57
    and it pops up the thing and it stops it
  • 00:16:00
    from hitting one of your markers and so
  • 00:16:03
    your goal is to have the other people's
  • 00:16:04
    markers all fall before you fall yes my
  • 00:16:07
    kids love it that's fun they love it I
  • 00:16:09
    don't even know if I'd put it into board
  • 00:16:11
    game category cuz it's almost like that
  • 00:16:12
    like you know the face whipped cream
  • 00:16:15
    slapping game it's like Falls almost
  • 00:16:17
    into that category for me uh but it it
  • 00:16:20
    is very fun and it's Bluey themed so
  • 00:16:22
    kids instantly loved it um other than
  • 00:16:26
    that I have two games that I thought
  • 00:16:28
    were very very good I know you didn't
  • 00:16:30
    love one of them as much as I did and
  • 00:16:31
    then you haven't played the other one
  • 00:16:32
    okay first one is a euro called Stevens
  • 00:16:35
    not Stevenson's rocket okay it's just
  • 00:16:38
    called Stevens now the worst thing about
  • 00:16:40
    this game is the title for me I I was at
  • 00:16:43
    the ye house uh and they were like Hey
  • 00:16:46
    we're going to play a game called
  • 00:16:47
    Stevens and I was like oh yeah
  • 00:16:47
    Stevenson's rocket they're like no no no
  • 00:16:50
    Stevens and I was like is it a Euro and
  • 00:16:51
    they're like yes and I was like but it's
  • 00:16:53
    not okay okay and so I get there it's
  • 00:16:57
    about making glass in I think Portugal
  • 00:17:00
    or somewhere in Europe and I loved it it
  • 00:17:04
    was really good it was just like very
  • 00:17:06
    classic Euro I can't really explain it
  • 00:17:09
    more than you were just like
  • 00:17:10
    piggybacking actions like you could like
  • 00:17:12
    there were like core actions that could
  • 00:17:14
    be taken but then you could put tokens
  • 00:17:15
    off to the side and everyone could and
  • 00:17:17
    every time someone took that action you
  • 00:17:18
    got to take the whole train of actions
  • 00:17:20
    but only the ones in your color and so
  • 00:17:22
    like if I went here I would give myself
  • 00:17:24
    bonus actions but I might also give you
  • 00:17:25
    bonus actions there's lots of like
  • 00:17:26
    piggybacking actions which was cool
  • 00:17:28
    that's cool um I like that a lot and the
  • 00:17:30
    other one was andras Edge I love space
  • 00:17:32
    games I know you love space games I
  • 00:17:34
    liked andras a lot uh I thought it was a
  • 00:17:37
    beautiful production I thought it was an
  • 00:17:39
    excellent game um we played it at
  • 00:17:41
    Tennesse game days didn't we we did yeah
  • 00:17:43
    I'm getting too old too old for long
  • 00:17:45
    games too old for the big games yeah I
  • 00:17:48
    just you are older than me I am older
  • 00:17:50
    than you I'm I'm just too old next year
  • 00:17:53
    check in to see if I'm still playing ti4
  • 00:17:56
    um I only played it once this year
  • 00:18:00
    yeah yeah I don't know I I think it's
  • 00:18:02
    just like the time the time commitment I
  • 00:18:04
    like I I like them like I enjoyed it I
  • 00:18:06
    had a great time um but it just like
  • 00:18:09
    yeah yeah that that that's like a big
  • 00:18:10
    factor to me in my like top list was
  • 00:18:12
    very short I know it's got like lots of
  • 00:18:14
    short games so my other two honorable
  • 00:18:16
    mentions one would be Sky Team reason
  • 00:18:18
    why it's not in my like top two is just
  • 00:18:20
    cuz I'm not like I wouldn't say I'm like
  • 00:18:22
    dying to play it again but I think it is
  • 00:18:24
    it is just so well executed I think it
  • 00:18:26
    has a very like feels thematic yeah like
  • 00:18:29
    the theme the art execution like
  • 00:18:31
    everything about it just like works so
  • 00:18:33
    well it's just like you are trying to be
  • 00:18:35
    a co-op um you're trying to land a plane
  • 00:18:38
    can't talk to each other you can't talk
  • 00:18:39
    to each other it's just super clever um
  • 00:18:42
    and yeah it's just like a very cohesive
  • 00:18:44
    very specific um type package of a game
  • 00:18:48
    that I just yeah I think it fires on all
  • 00:18:49
    cylinders and and it's wonderful I
  • 00:18:51
    wonder if Pilots got that game and they
  • 00:18:52
    played it and they're like this is
  • 00:18:53
    really thetic like why can't we talk to
  • 00:18:55
    each other honestly talk to each other
  • 00:18:57
    in a I don't understand don't worry
  • 00:18:59
    about that don't worry about that don't
  • 00:19:00
    worry about that uh and then my other
  • 00:19:02
    honorable mention I just played uh it's
  • 00:19:05
    a little bit too mean to be my like top
  • 00:19:07
    but it would be Senators Oh I thought
  • 00:19:09
    you were going to say that game that
  • 00:19:11
    Aaron and Max played at Pax it's got a
  • 00:19:15
    weird name oh oh yeah know I don't know
  • 00:19:19
    I didn't play that um but anyway
  • 00:19:21
    Senators it's like is is a very
  • 00:19:24
    interesting game where you're
  • 00:19:27
    you're you're trying it's like Roman
  • 00:19:29
    themed and you're you're trying to gain
  • 00:19:32
    more power in in the senate or gain more
  • 00:19:34
    Senators but it's very strange because
  • 00:19:36
    like you'll like winning the game is
  • 00:19:38
    like you'll get like two more points
  • 00:19:39
    than you started with you're like very
  • 00:19:41
    often losing points you're very often
  • 00:19:43
    like everything about the game is like a
  • 00:19:46
    little bit mean and a little bit feels
  • 00:19:48
    bad but because everything is mean and
  • 00:19:49
    everything feels bad it's like not as
  • 00:19:52
    bad so I I liked it because it made me
  • 00:19:54
    like some elements in a game that I
  • 00:19:57
    normally wouldn't like I don't usually
  • 00:19:59
    like take that and I don't usually like
  • 00:20:00
    feels bad but like because it's like all
  • 00:20:03
    a little bit that way when did you play
  • 00:20:05
    this I played it like last night of
  • 00:20:07
    packs okay that doesn't explain anything
  • 00:20:09
    I was like I was about to be like this
  • 00:20:10
    explains everything cuz this whole year
  • 00:20:13
    Zach is trying to be putting murder into
  • 00:20:15
    our board and like we're working on run
  • 00:20:18
    one right now where you have like cubes
  • 00:20:20
    and regions and for the longest time you
  • 00:20:22
    couldn't move or mess up anyone else's
  • 00:20:24
    and Zach would just be like I want to be
  • 00:20:25
    able to murder that cute me and M like
  • 00:20:27
    Zack you need to calm down we need to
  • 00:20:29
    talk about this and I was like this game
  • 00:20:31
    describes exactly where he got that but
  • 00:20:33
    no it was too late there's still time
  • 00:20:35
    there's still time we'll get some
  • 00:20:37
    killing into that
  • 00:20:39
    game um but anyways they're already dead
  • 00:20:44
    Zack all right well we talk about next
  • 00:20:46
    year yeah a little bit um we've already
  • 00:20:49
    kind of announced the first one yes so
  • 00:20:51
    we're doing a game in March called
  • 00:20:55
    scales of Fate scales of Fate uh it is a
  • 00:20:58
    two two player game in the veiled fate
  • 00:21:01
    Universe um very excited about that we
  • 00:21:04
    are I am in 1 hour play testing the game
  • 00:21:07
    that we'll be launching in the middle of
  • 00:21:09
    next year yeah um it is code named
  • 00:21:12
    Kingdom ruler it will not be called that
  • 00:21:14
    it better not be um but uh I'm trying to
  • 00:21:17
    think like if we give what how much of a
  • 00:21:18
    teaser we give to that every time I've
  • 00:21:20
    tried to give a teaser to this the
  • 00:21:21
    person has been like I don't know what
  • 00:21:23
    you're talking about so I think we need
  • 00:21:25
    to craft that well we definitely do I
  • 00:21:27
    mean we just like we just kind of like
  • 00:21:28
    put the finishing like rounded out the
  • 00:21:30
    rules it's been at this like weird state
  • 00:21:32
    for quite a while where it's like we we
  • 00:21:35
    know the core of it is there but like we
  • 00:21:38
    have not gotten the functional details
  • 00:21:39
    of it and we finally got the like right
  • 00:21:42
    now we we were like oh it's at 120 it's
  • 00:21:44
    at 110% right now we need to shave like
  • 00:21:46
    just a little bit off but like we we've
  • 00:21:48
    got the bones very excited about it um
  • 00:21:51
    it's cracking me up how we started with
  • 00:21:53
    like an action card deck uhhuh and then
  • 00:21:56
    we went to like an action selection like
  • 00:21:59
    tile like thing and then we had an
  • 00:22:01
    action selection board and now we're at
  • 00:22:04
    action card drafting which is definitely
  • 00:22:06
    my favorite version yeah yeah no I it's
  • 00:22:08
    my favorite game we've ever made but I
  • 00:22:10
    think I say oh yeah you say that about
  • 00:22:11
    every game well I know but that's cuz
  • 00:22:13
    we're getting better at this it is
  • 00:22:15
    surprising for me to say that I love it
  • 00:22:18
    I think it's fantastic I don't know if
  • 00:22:20
    it'll Dethrone Brak for me okay well I'm
  • 00:22:22
    just saying okay so it's a card drafting
  • 00:22:24
    game um with like no we I'll pitch this
  • 00:22:29
    to you later it's it's hard it's hard to
  • 00:22:30
    talk about we're we're working on it
  • 00:22:32
    it's got It's got sillies siles
  • 00:22:35
    cylinders yes we started calling them
  • 00:22:37
    SES it's dumb it's dumb they won't be
  • 00:22:39
    called cylinders when when or that when
  • 00:22:42
    it's over but you'll know and you'll
  • 00:22:43
    call them siles yes and then uh we're
  • 00:22:46
    going to do a third launch at least in
  • 00:22:49
    the year we're going to um I know what I
  • 00:22:50
    want it to be but I'm not going to say
  • 00:22:52
    that yet uh because it's like we're just
  • 00:22:54
    starting to work on that game so and if
  • 00:22:56
    we get crazy we might do a fourth launch
  • 00:22:58
    yeah who knows or some direct to Market
  • 00:23:00
    stuff or some direct to Market stuff
  • 00:23:02
    we're trying to have a really big Gen
  • 00:23:03
    Con and so if you're going to Gen Con
  • 00:23:05
    make sure you look into what we're doing
  • 00:23:07
    but anyways it's been a long video yep I
  • 00:23:10
    have to go we appreciate you thanks for
  • 00:23:12
    making 2024 amazing our best year yet
  • 00:23:15
    yeah um we feel very blessed and honored
  • 00:23:17
    to make games for and with you um and
  • 00:23:22
    yeah have a good have a good holidays
  • 00:23:23
    have a good New Year we'll see you in
  • 00:23:25
    2025 see you in 2025
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