Boardgame Babylon
A podcast about designer board games among other things.
Host: E.R. Burgess
Website: http://boardgamebabylon.com
Boardgame Babylon is a podcast about strategy board games (often called designer or Euro games), with session reviews and themed shows focusing on a particular game or designer. Your host, E.R. Burgess (Sheylon on Boardgamegeek.com) is a longtime gamer and 'redesigner', so you can expect some discussion of variants, too.
| Episode Name | Time | Release Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| BGB Volume 82 - Interview with Stronghold Games | 56:38 | 06/29/2010 | On this volume of Boardgame Babylon, I speak to Stephen Buonocore, the co-founder of the up-and-coming game company Stronghold Games. He and Kevin Nesbitt (formerly of Valley Games fame) are bringing the designer game community some great games from the past that deserve fantastic, quality... |
| BGB Volume 81 - Family Games, Part 1: Wits and Wagers Family Edition, Word on the Street Junior, Sou | 35:39 | 06/21/2010 | The long promised Family Games podcast series begins! In each show, I'll chat with someone about gaming in families with kids (yes, I know you can have a family without kids - the series on playing with your cats and dogs is scheduled for release in 2025) and then provide three capsule... |
| BGB Volume 80 - Eurogames for the iPhone and iPad | 1:14:23 | 05/04/2010 | Eurogames are absolutely EXPLODING on the iPhone and now the iPad. For your listening pleasure, Boardgame Babylon offers this survey of most of the eurogames currently available for these wonderful devices. The iPhone offers a great individual experience for gameplay and the chance to train for... |
| BGB Volume 79 - Five and Dimes for 2009 with Chris Johnson | 1:19:56 | 04/12/2010 | Like other podcasts (notably Boardgames To Go, which we reference here), I like to record a show about Five and Dimes each year. That is - the games played more than five or more than ten times. This year, Chris Johnson joins me for a review of his nearly 3,000 plays (and my pathetic 598 plays)... |
| BGB Volume 78 - Mystery Express, Days of Steam, Super Circles, 7 Ate 9 and Run Wild | 49:08 | 03/25/2010 | Time for a new session reviews show talking about a few new and new-ish games. I managed to rope my lovely wife Christina to join me for a talk about the following games: Days of Wonder’s gorgeous new whodunit game, Mystery Express from Antoine Bauza and Serge LagetOut of the Box’s... |
| BGB Volume 77 - Q&A with Matt Leacock at Orccon 2010 | 44:31 | 02/17/2010 | Boardgame Babylon is back with a Q&A session featuring award-winning designer, Matt Leacock. You probably know him from his hit games Pandemic and Roll Through The Ages. His newest game, Gamewright's utterly gorgeous Forbidden Island, debuted at Orccon 2010 and was... |
| BGB Volume 76 - Factory Manager, Martian Fluxx and Tobago | 31:15 | 01/27/2010 | Later than promised, the new Boardgame Babylon is out with session reviews of Power Grid - Factory Manager, Martian Fluxx, and Tobago. Oddly enough, I kind of liked all three but know only Tobago will hit the nickel list this year. I also announce the winner of the Leaders of Small World... |
| BGB Volume 75 - Last Minute Stocking Stuffers and Holiday Party Games | 41:45 | 12/16/2009 | Boardgame Babylon is finally back with the Last Minute Stocking Stuffer and Party Game Expansion show. Sorry to say it took me about two weeks to get this from recording to actually release because of a busy holiday season. I think I've decided to stop waiting so long to record this show next year... |
| BGB Volume 74 - Essen 2009, Part 3 - Havana, Sherwood Forest and Cheese | 26:50 | 11/05/2009 | Another Essen show with some brief comments and then I dive right in on Reinhard Staupe's Havana, Nils Funkemeyer's Sherwood Forest and Michael Sohre's silly dexterity game, Cheese. Warning - I meant to edit this show all week but never had time while I am down here in India. So, here it is, warts... |
| BGB Volume 73 - Essen 2009, Part 2 - TWRS, Colonia and Wurfel Ligretto | 26:13 | 10/31/2009 | Finally a second show from Essen. In this one, I talk about Martyn F's TWRS (designer and game shown to the side here), Dirk Henn's Colonia and Inka & Markus Brand's Wurfel Ligretto (which I'll note since in the podcast I neglect to say the designers for this title). This is pretty much how I... |