Welcome to Episode 131 of the Devon Dice Podcast, where we serve up a delightful mix of gaming and pop culture chat in our third installment of Topic Tapas! Joel, is your host, and he is by Nick, our Spiel des Jahres Analyst Extraordinaire, and Sam, putting the “Yo” back in “polyomino”. In this episode, we’ll dive into the games we’ve been playing—Pioneer Rails, Darwin’s Journey, and Terraforming Mars with some exciting custom twists. We’ll also share some rules we got hilariously wrong, chat about holiday board gaming, and explore the non-gaming things we’re currently obsessed with!

• Joel: Pioneer Rails
• Sam: Darwin’s Journey
• Nick: Terraforming Mars with Prelude 2, custom Milestones & Awards, and on the fan-maps Vastitas Borealis and Amazonis Planitia big-map

• Joel: Clank! Crystal Caves
• Nick: Borrowing one of Chris M’s: Century: Spice Road
• Sam: Jamaica
• Discord: join in here https://discord.gg/ma7Z4Jvv2z
  • BoardGameJimmy: Terraforming Mars
  • Craigdavid1987: Valeria card kingdoms

• Joel: Tails from Cyprus board gaming

Joel

• Deadpool and Wolverine – at the ol’ cinema
• Clank Digital

Nick

• Wyatt Earp & The Cowboy War on Netflix
• The D-Con Chamber – Star Trek actors, Dominic Keating and Connor Trinneer, interview other Star Trek cast and crew from all the varieties of Star Trek
• Star Trek Prodigy Season 2

Sam

• Alien: Romulus
• Replaying Dredge
• Bought a Steam Deck – Lewis was right.

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Welcome to the long-awaited podcast all about the UKGE 2024 (NEC). Joel, Nick, Lewis, and Sam go through the thoughts and stories from the event this year and give you their opinions on whether it was the best it has ever been.

• • Meeples™ Choice Awards winners announced – Nucleum, Earth, Sky Team, White Castle (and runners up: Darwin’s Journey, Forest Shuffle, Faraway, Age of Innovation, Great Western Trail: New Zealand, Apiary, and Hooky)
  • Attendance figures (as mentioned the last pod): 39,306 unique; 65,281 total attendance.
  • UKGE Judges Awards / UKGE People’s Choice Awards £18,000 raised for charity at UKGE 2024

• General chat about the event: Tickets, Bring & Buy, Met Craig v87 from our Discord server, live shows Knightmare Live show, The Dark Room, see news games coming: Alley Cat Games’ new games coming, Ada’s Dream, Luthier, WTIIA live show
• Lewis’s Family Day at UKGE: Family Zone, Getting some family games, Hunting down them bargains, New Diamant: £12, Lost Ruins of Arnak: £40, One big punt…One regret
• Joel’s show reviewed:
  • pickups: Zuuli promo (buy), Forest Shuffle: Alpine,Medici, Age of Comics
  • Claire buying game: Return to Dark Tower
  • Played: Sea Salt & Paper, Marvel Remix, Looot!
  • Demos: Invincible the board game, Hamlet , Rebirth, To Glory! gimmick, Heat: Heavy Rain 2nd expansion, HeroScape, Towers of Ra!, Monsters of Loch Lomond, Windmill Valley, Deep Regrets,

• Holy Grail games Another one bites the dust
• BGA is doing well in its post-Asmodee-acquisition era
• Parks is removed from BGA
• Moon Colony Bloodbath – A new Donald X. Vaccarino deck building + destruction of a shared deck
• Res Arcana Duo – Yet Another 2-player Redux
• Stamp Swap – Stonemeier’s next game
• A couple of notable expansions coming soon:
  • Gaia Project: The Lost Fleet
  • Faraway: Le Peuple du Dessous (“The People Underneath”)
  • Hundred Acre Wood Fluxx

• • Ocean City Games Expo – gaming convention in Plymouth on 26th October – run by Andy Bright, from our Monday Night Games Group.
  • Devon Boardgame Weekend @ the Fox & Hounds – 8-10th November

• (both squeezed in-between Essen (early Oct) and Gridcon (mid Nov)

• So You’ve Been Cursed (4 days left) – Followup sequel to So You’ve Been Eaten
• Tír na nÓg (12 days left) – reprint and expansion
• Cosmere RPG – Brandon Sanderson (4 days left)

• The Cats of Mont Saint Michel (4 days left)

• Ra reprint + expansion + Ra & Write
• I Made You A Mix Tape (~November)
• Everdell Duo

Welcome to News-a-palooza: Free the Meeple! I’m Joel, your host, and today we’re diving into a whirlwind of board gaming news and exciting updates. Joining me is Nick, our podcast’s very own board game designer.

News Segment:

3:16 – Meeple trademark dispute (+ update) https://gamefound.com/en/projects/cogito-ergo-meeple/meeple-inc/updates/9

10:50 – Game Brewer shutting down https://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/162203/spiel-essen-24-sells-out-game-brewer-shuts-down-an

11:50 – Star Wars: X-Wing game not being developed anymore https://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/162203/spiel-essen-24-sells-out-game-brewer-shuts-down-an

14:20 – Dicebreaker, the boardgame news site, appears to be collapsing, 2 weeks after being bought by IGN https://boardgamewire.com/index.php/2024/06/12/dicebreakers-future-remains-unclear-as-silenced-site-makes-editor-in-chief-senior-staff-writer-redundant-after-ign-takeover/

15:55 – Figures for UK Games Expo attendance:

• Uniques: 39,306
• Total Attendance: 65,281
• Almost 30% growth over 2023

19:39 – Essen Spiel sells out to exhibitors

21:16 – Spiel des Jahres (+ Kennerspiel) nominations announced: https://www.spiel-des-jahres.de/nominierte-spiele-2024.html

• SdJ: Sky Team, https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/373106/sky-team
• In the Footsteps of Darwin, https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/376683/in-the-footsteps-of-darwin
• and Captain Flip. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/393325/captain-flip

KSdJ: Daybreak; https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/334986/daybreak

The Guild of Merchant Explorers; https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/350933/the-guild-of-merchant-explorers

Ticket to Ride Legacy – Legends of the West. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/390092/ticket-to-ride-legacy-legends-of-the-west

Coming Soon:

29:14 – Star Trek: Captain’s Chair: A Star Trek game using the Imperium games’ design https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/422541/star-trek-captains-chair

32:55 – Sky Team expansion announced: Turbulence https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/423177/sky-team-turbulenc...

Joel, Nick and Sam list the Games they are excited to see at the UKGE in the NEC, Birmingham. And Lewis is here too to mock Sam about his Windmill games. but first off they take a look at the winners of the BoardGameGeek Awards 2023. Enjoy the show!

2:04 – Super Quick News: BGG Golden Geek Winners announced

15:15 – Sam’s 11 Honourable Mentions:

• Courtisans
• Florilegium
• Happy Home
• Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-Earth
• Moving Wild
• Quoridor: Pac Man
• Sakana Stack
• Shoal
• Sand Find Kosmos Games on stand 1-602.
• Worms: The Board Game
• 13 Beavers

26:57 – Nick’s Honourable Mentions: Towers of Ra (images) Find Ocean City Games Ltd on stand 2-566.

27:55 – Joel’s Honourable Mentions: Two Thin Coats Paint Range Duncan Rhodes Painting Academy on stand 1-783.

• 30:09 – #5
  • 30:20 – Joel, Horrified Greek Monsters Find Ravensburger Ltd on stand 2-854
  • 31:46 – Nick, Shackleton Base Find Hachette Boardgames UK on stand 2-614.
  • 33:00 – Sam, Windmill Valley Find BOARD AND DICE Sp. z.o.o. on stand 2-202.
• 35:38 #4
  • 35:40 – Joel, Cities Find Kosmos Games on stand 1-602.
  • 35:45 – Nick, Ada’s Dream Find Alley Cat Games on stand 1-714.
  • 37:12 – Sam, Pampero Find APE Games on stand 2-T90.
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  • 39:40 – Joel, Borderlands: Mister Torgue’s Arena of Badassery Find Asmodee- Dedicated...

Sorry for the massive gap between podcasts.

• New podcast feed host
• Joel and Claire’s trip to London and Draughts board game café
  • Tucana Builders

• Meeples Corner, the lovely FLGS in Crediton, is to close at the end of the month.
• Wonders of the First, a CCG on Kickstarter using all-AI-art, is made to cancel (by Kickstarter themselves) because of using NFTs.
• Controversy hits the game Puerto Rico yet again, as Jason Perez, who rethemed the game for its “1897” release to remove cultural insensitivity, has now rejected his 1897 version entirely due to how the publisher(s) – including Awaken Realms who teased a new Deluxe Edition recently but immediately got in trouble for using AI art in the teaser artwork – have treated him.
• Castles of Burgundy Special Edition makes £2.1m on its 2nd printing on Gamefound, with 16.5k backers.

• Corps of Discovery – Lewis & Clark … and Monsters! The Ultimate Cooperative Deduction and Survival Game. Ends 14th May (2 days’ time!)
• House of Fado, a new game from Vital Lacerda. Ends 17th May
• Formosa Tea returns for a 2nd edition on KS. Ends 30th May
• One Card Maze: Season 2 – boardgame adjacent, as this is more a puzzle than a boardgame, but it looks a lot of fun, and you can try some of the mazes online. Ends 1st June

• Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle Earth – announced by Asmodee, as a rethemed implementation of 7 Wonders Duel. Will be available for demo at UKGE.
• Black Forest, a sequel to Uwe Rosenberg’s Glass Road, is due for release this year.
• The Mandalorian: Adventures – a new co-op card-based action game from Corey Konieczka, set during the first seaso...

Welcome dear listeners! This is Episode 125 of the Devon Dice Podcast. In this podcast, we run down our top 5 new-to-us games on BGA! Joining Joel and Nick as they run through their top 5 games new to them that they played on Boardgame Arena first. Oh and they also read out Sams too.

• The Vale of Eternity,
• Beyond the Sun,
• Forest Shuffle,
• Faraway,
• Welcome To…,
• Formula D,
• Sobek,
• Challengers!,
• HUND,
• Quetzal,
• Eruption,
• Eruption
• Glass Road,
• Railroad Ink,
• River Valley Glassworks,
• Faraway,
• Carnegie,
• Barrage,

• Joel:
  • The Fox Experiment 4-player
• Nick:
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation – Interactive VCR Board Game – A Klingon Challenge
    • The VCR video: https://youtu.be/3_739DxrMOs

• Nick:
  • Death and Other Details on Disney+
  • Holding off watching Star Trek: Discovery Season 5
• Joel:
  • Ted Lasso
  • Painting miniature
  • PAL WORLD

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