Board Game Impact
Creating meaningful gaming content for your gaming group!
Episodes
September 13, 2023 • 40 mins
This past weekend I had the privilege of traveling to Colorado Springs for Pikes Peak Gamer (PPG) Con! This local convention with a library of over 1,300 great games was an absolute blast. In this episode I talk all about the convention and speed run through the some of the games we played. Of course we also give an important update on Tabletop Alliance, our 501c3 nonprofit that spreads games to students across the US!
Games Dis...
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August 15, 2023 • 18 mins
This episode is all about the little dice game that captivated me from GAMA Expo and was just released by Keymaster games...Chicken! In addition, Bruce shares some incredible news about Tabletop Alliance and how the article linked in these notes went out to 90,000 teachers in the National Education Association (NEA) magazine!
TO support and donate to Tabletop Alliance go to - https://tabletopalliance.org/
NEA Article - https:...
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July 18, 2023 • 29 mins
Today's episode is all about the 2023 Spiel des Jahres winner, Dorfromantik! This tile laying gaming campaign experience took my family by storm while we attended BGG.Spring. You definitely want to hear about all the interesting things this game facilitated for us!
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July 12, 2023 • 20 mins
In this gamine experience deep dive we talk all about the Hunt A Killer Mystery Box: Body on the Boardwalk case. This case experience was sent to us by Hunt A Killer and we are glad they did because it was a really great mystery to solve and the components were beyond anything we had seen in this kind of experience to date.
If you would like to try a Hunt A Killer case, feel free to use anyone of the codes that they sent us for...
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June 9, 2023 • 55 mins
In this episode of Board Game Impact released on 6/9 we welcome Dean as a guest so we can chat about team games, particularly the Crew and the lessons we learn while playing games together. This includes the game strategy, group meta, and more all related back to Blooms Revised Taxonomy for learning outcome development!
Dean's BGA Username = OccamsRazor
To learn more about Board Game Impact you can:
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May 22, 2023 • 40 mins
This episode is all about getting to be one of the first to play Disney Lorcana while at the GAMA Expo 2023 and my first impressions of the trading card game. Disney Lorcana is set to release to retail late summer 2023 with their "first chapter" set that will have 204 uniquely new Disney art! The game is designed by Ryan Miller and Steve Warner, who were the two people who also taught me how to play!
Make sure to listen to the w...
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May 8, 2023 • 44 mins
It has been an incrediblely life changing couple months and you have been extremely kind in your patience for another episode. I am happy to share that I am officially Dr. Bruce Brown (aka "Doc Brown") as I have successfully defended and completed a PhD!
This episode is a MEGA update in advance of many more episodes to come.
Topics discussed include:
PhD Completion & Life Updates
Incredible Tabletop Alliance Updates
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December 23, 2022 • 33 mins
It has been an incredible month and a half since the last recording! We have been able to further the Tabletop Alliance impact to 18,000+ students, attended BGG.Con, made significant progress on my PhD, and more!
Special thanks to all those who came and said high to me at BGG.Con, AMIGO Games, Many Worlds Tavern, and The Brothers Murph.
The Brothers Murph: (please go follow them)
Top 100 Games of all Time – https://youtu.b...
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October 19, 2022 • 71 mins
Join us as we interview Max Jamelli, an educator who uses games and now has a game of his own design (along with his father) coming to Kickstarter at the end of the month called Lords of Baseball! Why take me out to the ballpark when we can manage the ballpark from home!
We are doing this live recording to raise awareness for Tabletop Alliance, a charity we believe in that sends games to schools, libraries, and community progra...
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October 12, 2022 • 66 mins
In this episode Josh is back sharing all about his experience from the first ever World Series of Board Gaming and even his experience playing Terraforming Mars The Dice Game!!! Definately a lot of fun was had at the competition, but so were too a lot of first convention growing pains. Tune in to hear all about it and Josh's plans for next year's event.
We streamed this recording LIVE to Facebook, Twitch, and Youtube to raise aw...
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September 26, 2022 • 44 mins
Josh is back to talk all about his upcoming trip to the World Series of Board Gaming happening in Vegas! Josh is going to talk to us all about his prep and how this whole world series works.
Join the Tabletop Alliance Fundraiser by visiting - https://go.rallyup.com/tabletopalliance2022
Have you volunteered for Extra Life? Sign up to potentially participate as part of Bruce's Study - https://tamu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_d71T...
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September 20, 2022 • 33 mins
In this episode Bruce revs up his engines as he shares about Downforce, a game by Restoration Games designed by Wolfgang Kramer. Also, Bruce shares how the podcast has surpassed 9,000 downloads thanks to you and wants you to know that there is currently a great way to win games while making a positive impact on a nonprofit they love, Tabletop Alliance.
To support Tabletop Alliance by joining the game-a-thon, getting raffles, and...
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September 6, 2022 • 33 mins
For starters I am beyond the moon thankful to share that this podcast has been downloaded more than 9,000 times!!!! In this episode Bruce does a deep dive into Beyond the Sun by Rio Grande Games, designed by Dennis K. Chan.
In addition Bruce shares about his upcoming game of Twilight Imperium (4th Edition) with the Prophecy of Kings expansion, and more as this episode was recorded LIVE and can be watched on the @BoardGameImpact...
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August 22, 2022 • 41 mins
In this episode of Board Game Impact Bruce reviews Destiny Quest - The Legion of Shadow game book by Michael J. Ward. This choose your own adventure game book has over 900 passages that the character you create can explore all while making meaningful decisions, engaging in combat, finding new gear, and learning more about this sprawling world that the author created. This game book does contain some mature content (fighting, battle...
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August 8, 2022 • 48 mins
The podcast is back!!!!!
After a long and jam packed PhD adventure of finishing off all coursework I am so happy to be back playing games and getting to share about them with you for the benefit of your gaming group. In what way did I come back you may ask....well with a vengeance is the correct answer! This episode crash courses 18 games, 10 kickstarters/preorders ahead, and sharing updates about some different elements (i.e. P...
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June 29, 2021 • 39 mins
In this episode Bruce and Josh compare and contrast Parks and Trails, both by Keymaster games. They discuss the nuances of each, gameplay, components, and overall whether one replaces the other or if there are differences to justify having both.
To learn more about Board Game Impact you can:
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June 8, 2021 • 104 mins
In this episode Bruce uses his dozens of hours of playtime to ask Josh about his first every play of Twilight Imperium 4th Edition which included playing with the new Prophecy of the Kings Expansion.
To learn more about Board Game Impact you can:
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Twilight Imperium Links:
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May 10, 2021 • 71 mins
In this episode the BoardGameGeek Golden Geek Award goes to.......quite a lot of games actually. That's right Bruce and Josh share who won each of the game categories of the BGG Golden Geek Awards. Each of these came out in 2020 and were voted on throughout BGG's nomination and voting process by the BGG users.
We encourage you to check out the Tabletop Alliance "Christmas In July - Buy a Game, Give a Game" experience at - https:...
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April 13, 2021 • 78 mins
The time has come for the start of in-person gaming and to nominate your favorites for the Board Game Geek "Golden Geek" Awards! Now that they are vaccinated they have started to play games again with other vaccinated individuals in-person with lots more coming soon. This being the case there are some great games that have gotten to the table.
Nominations for Golden Geek: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2639250/15th-annual-gol...
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March 16, 2021 • 85 mins
In this episode Josh brought up a discussion topic that was the focus of the entire show, how do we go about "teaching and learning games?" Given our backgrounds in education we easily could have kept talking about this but had to cut ourselves off but it was a lot of fun to have this personal conversation in an effort of sharing our perspectives and experiences. In addition, we also dive into game design choices such as intro game...
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