1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,840 Welcome to Maple to Maple, uniting players around the 2 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:06,640 world, a 30 minute exploration of TJ and Gareth 4 game 3 00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:09,480 experiences from across both sides of the Atlantic. 4 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:12,720 Each episode they share their thoughts and opinions on the 5 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:16,280 world of four games, including their favorite themes, games, 6 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:22,480 hot topics, and much, much more. Hey and welcome to episode 91. 7 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:24,760 Did I go to? Was that too loud? 8 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:27,680 That's booming, but that's good. Was it the LPJ booming? 9 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:28,880 PJ's back? We want that back. 10 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:30,880 It's good you do? Yeah, it's good balance. 11 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:33,440 Welcome back, PJ. Hey, I guess. 12 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:37,720 I guess so. How has Jane come in a day? 13 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:44,320 The worst intro ever. So before we begin, the lesson 14 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:47,200 learned do not go to a convention for one. 15 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:49,960 In a day, don't. Do it. 16 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:53,880 Don't do it. It's not good for your mental 17 00:00:53,880 --> 00:01:02,760 health, your ankles, your knees. It's so maybe a. 18 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:06,440 Good fuel wallet or did you squeeze it all in in a day? 19 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:08,320 We did well. We did well. 20 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:13,360 It was intense. I'm reading my notes. 21 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:14,720 That's why I'm looking down. Sorry. 22 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:20,440 It wasn't, it was intense. It was, you know, one of the 23 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:22,360 words. I had a lot of people reach out 24 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:24,320 to me and go, hey, how was your one day at Gen. 25 00:01:24,320 --> 00:01:27,720 Con just before recording this podcast? 26 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:30,760 And I was like, it was intense. It was successful. 27 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:35,640 I'm not sure what are the criteria that defines a 28 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:38,600 successful kind. You had a good time. 29 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:40,800 I did. I did. 30 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:42,320 You know, I think The thing is that. 31 00:01:42,320 --> 00:01:46,560 So Katie and I went, we did the one day and there were three 32 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:50,760 games we wanted that we wanted to purchase the rest of them. 33 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:52,040 It was like, if we get it, great. 34 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:55,520 If we don't, that's fine. The most important thing was I 35 00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:57,760 had business cards made-up for the podcast. 36 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:02,440 I wanted to just talk to the publishers and let them know 37 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:07,040 that we're here, right? No agenda other than we need 38 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:10,479 more followers, we need more listeners, We need to share the 39 00:02:10,479 --> 00:02:12,760 love and the passion. We're trying to unite the world, 40 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:14,080 right? We're trying to unite and then 41 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:17,760 so I think that's why we were so successful. 42 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:20,960 But you and I are did. You get did you get 3? 43 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:23,200 Did you get the three games? We did not. 44 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:27,040 We did not did. You get any of the three games. 45 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:31,840 Yes, we got next station, Paris. Nice. 46 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:34,760 So we now have the trilogy. We're excited about that. 47 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:41,280 We also got the Champions expansion to Valiant Wars. 48 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:45,160 Valiant Wars was a deck builder, push your luck deck builder that 49 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:47,640 we got at Origins. I remember talking about it, 50 00:02:47,640 --> 00:02:49,080 yeah. And so we went and we got the 51 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:53,040 expansion and they were helpful. Made some really great contacts 52 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:55,120 there as well. What didn't you get? 53 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:57,280 Charcuterie? Oh. 54 00:02:58,200 --> 00:02:59,640 Yeah, I remember you saying it last week. 55 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:02,280 Yeah. Charcuterie it it. 56 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:04,960 It's heart wrenching because I met one of the designers back at 57 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:08,760 Geek Way and I'm like, oh, I want to play your game. 58 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:11,280 Next time. Yep. 59 00:03:11,640 --> 00:03:19,040 Well, so lesson #1 or or point #1 why you should never do a 60 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:22,680 convention in one day? Maybe not on a Sunday, yeah. 61 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:32,080 Things sell out. So, yeah, and, and what time did 62 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:35,080 you get there on a Sunday? Did you go Saturday and then you 63 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:37,200 were there for the morning or no? 64 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:41,520 So Katie's sister lives like an hour away. 65 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:48,240 OK, so we spent three days down there and visit with the family. 66 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:50,720 Our nephew is about to turn 4:00. 67 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:56,160 So we we played with him, went to the children's museum. 68 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:01,800 Apparently he climbed Mount Gumbo because he calls me Uncle 69 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:05,200 Gumbo and I'll just sit forward. I sit down. 70 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:07,560 On the couch and he. Climbs my back. 71 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:11,200 Like a mountain PJ from now known as Mount Gumbo. 72 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:15,200 Mount Gumbo, Yes. So yeah, it was fun. 73 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:18,959 We had a good time. We watched a lot of Paw Patrol. 74 00:04:18,959 --> 00:04:23,920 We watched a lot of Bluey. Games. 75 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:26,840 No games. No, not at all. 76 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:28,600 When you. Have a four year old? 77 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:32,240 When you have a four year old run around. 4/4 Keras 4 we go 78 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:34,600 into games, I can't believe what but I have to go and see. 79 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:38,000 But so you you went to Gencom on the Sunday morning, What time do 80 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:41,000 you get there? We got there at 7:30 in the 81 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:42,200 morning. Wow. 82 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:46,560 OK, early riser straight. We parked our car at our hotel 83 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:51,800 because we stayed there like the Sunday night, and then we walked 84 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:57,440 into the Convention Center and went upstairs overlooking the 85 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:02,680 entrance to the vendor hall where CGE has like a demo room. 86 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:06,880 And we waited out there. We figured we'd go into the CGE 87 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:11,480 room first to look around, let the crowd go into the vendor 88 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:13,680 hall, and then we don't have to fight the crowd. 89 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:15,760 What time is it open? If you got there at 7:30, what 90 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:19,200 time does it open? So the vendor hall opened at 10, 91 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:22,400 OK. The CGE room opened at 9:00. 92 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:26,080 OK. So here now, here's what you do 93 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:29,800 if if you're not going to listen to PJ and Gareth and you're 94 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:33,080 going to go to a convention for one day, this is what you do. 95 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:36,800 You get a chat group on Instagram or Facebook or TikTok, 96 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:40,080 whatever your platform is, and you let everyone know where 97 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:42,600 you're going to be. Plan. 98 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:45,920 And make them come to you plan. And. 99 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:49,480 Now I've told my secret and I'm going to get in trouble. 100 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:56,600 So almost everybody joined us at the bench right outside the CGE 101 00:05:56,840 --> 00:05:59,480 room, so I got to see most everyone. 102 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:00,600 It was great because I get to visit. 103 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:03,720 That's quite cool when you go and you go out of the. 104 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:07,880 Way and then you're free to do what you need to do, you know, 105 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:11,320 and these are all content creators who are super active 106 00:06:11,840 --> 00:06:17,840 and they make me feel lazy because they've got meetings. 107 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:20,960 You only had a day. You only had a day. 108 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:23,720 I know, but I'm like, I don't have meetings. 109 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:27,920 I have never scheduled a meeting as part of Maple to Maple or is 110 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:30,080 the Cajun gamer. I'm just like, hey man, can I 111 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:31,720 get you know? Meetings. 112 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:37,000 Yeah, no, I those of you who are listening, you know who you are 113 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:40,160 that I'm talking about. Looks like I love you all and I 114 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:42,440 think y'all are just. Y'all are killing it. 115 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:44,280 Y'all are but did. You go as you didn't. 116 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:48,160 You didn't go as press. You went as so as PJ. 117 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:53,440 Gen. Con is very, very restrictive in 118 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:56,560 issuing press passes. Very restrictive. 119 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:00,040 You have to be like a major press outlet. 120 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:03,640 And other people you're chatting to content great is and press or 121 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:06,280 just press. Well, they were all content 122 00:07:06,280 --> 00:07:08,840 creators that they had to buy their own badges. 123 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:11,080 Yeah, they didn't have, they didn't have press passes. 124 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:14,840 It's very different from UKGE. Because U kg you get you get 125 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:17,680 loads of invites for meetings and then it's up to you. 126 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:21,240 Whether so you do or don't depends on your schedule. 127 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:27,120 Origins is better, yeah. The the press pass is a little 128 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:29,360 bit more lenient. So like next year I'm going to 129 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:32,760 get a press pass for Origins and they help you set up schedule. 130 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:35,680 Meetings, yes. And then you schedule meetings 131 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:39,080 at Origins and then you while you're there, you schedule 132 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:41,480 meetings for Gen. Con because you have games that 133 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:43,040 are releasing out of Origins. It's quite. 134 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:44,520 Nice in terms of distance in it so. 135 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:47,120 You haven't got right. And then there's games that are 136 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:48,480 going to be released at Gen. Con. 137 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:51,520 They can't show you. So they're like, let's schedule 138 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:53,040 a meeting at Gen. Con. 139 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:53,880 Yeah, at Gen. Con. 140 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:56,880 So yeah. So what games did you see? 141 00:07:57,640 --> 00:08:02,800 What comes the people a minute? What did you see you haven't 142 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:05,960 seen before? So this is this is the part in 143 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:09,240 the description when you go to Spotify to look at this episode 144 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:14,080 and there's like 1000 games on the list that PJ is going to 145 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:15,720 mention. So I'm just going to we're not 146 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:18,040 going to talk about them because we haven't really played a lot 147 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:19,240 of them. We just kind of. 148 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:22,280 This is what? We this is this is what we 149 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:28,640 brought home. We brought home War Machine that 150 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:30,440 I cannot wait to sink my teeth into. 151 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:33,640 That looks really interesting. That's an Essen release. 152 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:36,720 Oh, nice. Yeah. 153 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:42,799 And then Peer Peer 18. This was a little. 154 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:45,440 It's a little card game, pretty small. 155 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:48,640 We got it from Alley Cat. I think Alley Cat gave that to 156 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:50,400 us. It was one. 157 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:53,120 They were, Yeah. If you bought a game from Alley 158 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:55,600 Cat, then they threw this, they had like a wheel. 159 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:57,480 You'd spin the wheel and whatever. 160 00:08:57,480 --> 00:09:00,000 Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so we and so we, they, I 161 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:01,960 guess they had a lot of copies of Pier 18. 162 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:05,840 So that brings me to Eternal Palace. 163 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:09,040 We bought, we bought that from Alley Cat. 164 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:17,000 We also got to see Ada's Dream. I was really curious about 165 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:19,120 seeing it because a lot of the content creators have been 166 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:21,840 posting. They had preview copies and I 167 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:23,720 was like, I want to see it and see what it's all about. 168 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:27,000 Yeah, I am sold. It's currently on late pledge 169 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:30,240 right now. If you have not backed it, Ada's 170 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:33,480 Dream, that was beautiful. It's alley Cat games isn't. 171 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:37,880 It it is. It is Shadow House. 172 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:41,640 Shadow House Masquerade I think it's called. 173 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:46,600 We also got Cascadia rolling rivers. 174 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:50,680 Oh yeah, part of part of their rolling, their rolling rights 175 00:09:50,680 --> 00:09:54,800 for Cascadia, you can combine them. 176 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:59,520 We decided to just get rivers. They did have the rolling hills. 177 00:10:00,560 --> 00:10:03,120 I didn't, but they they're the exact same game. 178 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:05,080 It's just a different kind of like a habitat. 179 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:06,600 And I was like, yeah, we'll just get one. 180 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:11,840 I will say, and I'm really excited to sink my teeth into 181 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:15,040 Salton Sea. Oh, it's good. 182 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:18,280 Really good. I know I watched you, you get. 183 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:22,520 Your thoughts on that one? Yeah, we may even do an. 184 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:24,640 We may even do an episode about that one. 185 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:28,000 Yeah, it's, it's really good. I'm just looking at War Machine. 186 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:31,240 If it's if it's Manhattan Project, War Machine, yes, that 187 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:32,480 looks good. That does look really good. 188 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:36,680 Yeah, so I got I got a copy of that and it looks really cool. 189 00:10:36,680 --> 00:10:40,560 We'll see what happens. Speaking of devoting episodes, 190 00:10:40,560 --> 00:10:47,520 besides Salton Sea, we picked up Middle Ages. 191 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:50,000 Yeah, I've sort of that again this weekend. 192 00:10:50,560 --> 00:10:53,120 You, you've been playing that like crazy. 193 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:56,560 You've talked about it a lot. It was a big hit at UKGE. 194 00:10:56,560 --> 00:10:59,800 Katie and I were like we want it, we're pre ordering it 195 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:04,680 because I don't want to run out. We can't wait to get into that. 196 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:06,160 Still not still. Not released over here. 197 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:09,280 Still crazy. No, really, it was it was a like 198 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:11,200 a bookshop. Waterstones Bookshop, exclusive 199 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:13,480 at the Games Expo. It's still not available. 200 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:17,280 I think. I think just check my stats, I 201 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:22,120 think it might have just got to number one game of the year, 202 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:28,360 year so far, games we've played nearly. 203 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:32,120 I think it'll get there though. I'm glad. 204 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:36,160 I'm glad you played it. So it's a Studio H. 205 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:39,440 Hash at games. Hash at games, yeah. 206 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:44,240 So yeah, I'm wondering if it was a Gen. 207 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:46,720 Con release. Yeah, it must have been. 208 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:49,240 Maybe it must be being really soon. 209 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:50,680 I mean, it's still gonna open shops. 210 00:11:50,680 --> 00:11:52,840 It's crazy. Can't wait to hit that. 211 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:56,480 In fact, for those of you who are listening, you should go 212 00:11:56,480 --> 00:11:59,760 back and check out Mrs. Cajun Gamer. 213 00:11:59,960 --> 00:12:02,440 She posted on Instagram this afternoon. 214 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:05,880 So while we were driving home, because it's a three hour drive, 215 00:12:06,560 --> 00:12:09,440 so Katie, one of our favorite things to do is to punch the 216 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:13,000 cardboard. In the car, Oh my God, that's 217 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:16,000 got risk to it. Oh no, she is like super 218 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:17,680 methodical. The lid goes here. 219 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:20,720 Like she's got it all. She's got a whole system. 220 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:23,720 Every year after Gen. Con, she punches all the 221 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:28,200 cardboard and I just drive and and she always posts like a 222 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:30,640 series of pictures as inner progress. 223 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:33,680 So that's a lot of fun. But I feel like Middle Ages is 224 00:12:33,680 --> 00:12:35,000 going to be a game we're going to talk about. 225 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:40,320 We picked up fiction by all Play games. 226 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:43,560 That's a that's a cool game. That is that. 227 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:48,640 We got plant Topia by our friends at Barrel Aged Games 228 00:12:49,920 --> 00:12:52,800 Gardlings. Like that one? 229 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:55,880 Yep, it's a it's an Essen release as well. 230 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:58,320 Nice. Yeah, I guess you're that close 231 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:00,520 though, aren't you? Because only what, month and a 232 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:05,000 half away? Yeah, Pat, Pat Squara. 233 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:08,280 I hope I don't. Butcher, I think you've 234 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:09,000 butchered it. Ready. 235 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:16,000 Pat Squarra. Pat Squarra, I've seen that 236 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:17,440 somewhere. Someone's been talking about 237 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:19,680 that. Detestable games. 238 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:21,040 Yeah, someone's been talking about that. 239 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:22,280 I've seen that on the social somewhere. 240 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:29,640 You are building your altar in honour of the Day of the Dead in 241 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:33,320 Mexico, so that's. Cute artwork. 242 00:13:33,760 --> 00:13:38,720 Yeah, it's very cute. And then finally I saved the 243 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:41,520 best for last because I know you're going to ask me, so I'm 244 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:44,240 going to jump the gun. What was my favorite? 245 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:48,800 I got a copy of Star Trek Star Realms. 246 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:52,240 By our heaven. By our friends Wise Wizard 247 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:55,120 Games. And is that out out or is that 248 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:58,320 was it limited release? It's it's limited release. 249 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:00,640 These are these were advanced copies from Gen. 250 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:01,560 Con. Yeah. 251 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:06,160 It's going to be released in October of 2024. 252 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:11,560 So Wise Wizard Games, as you know, they created Star Realms, 253 00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:16,800 published Star Realms, they worked with UVS Games who has 254 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:23,360 the Star Trek IP and they partnered together to basically, 255 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:25,160 I mean, it is a reskin of Star Realms. 256 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:29,920 I don't like reskins, you know. That it's Is it different at all 257 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:33,440 or is it literally? You know, I'll let you know when 258 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:35,520 I open it you. Haven't even opened it yet. 259 00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:37,360 You. Know this is the one that Katie 260 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:43,160 let me open she opened all the other ones really excited to get 261 00:14:43,160 --> 00:14:49,280 this to the table and play that Star Trek Star realms look for 262 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:54,000 it coming in October wise wizard games UVS games. 263 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:58,600 I think we're finally going to have a hit Star Trek game. 264 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:03,080 There's so many Star Trek games that are just they flop and they 265 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:05,920 don't do well. Oh, Speaking of, we got to see a 266 00:15:05,920 --> 00:15:10,560 demo of Star Trek Captain's Chair. 267 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:14,800 This is this game's unique. I feel like it's doing too much, 268 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:18,720 but I need to see more. So the idea is that you play the 269 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:21,880 role of a captain. Yeah. 270 00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:24,560 And it's not just Federation you could play. 271 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:30,920 You could play a Klingon captain, a Vulcan, A Romulan and 272 00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:34,800 Dorian and and specific individuals from the shows and 273 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:39,200 then you're captaining your ship in kind of this combat sequence. 274 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:43,200 My fear, it's all cards. Is it the the text on the cards? 275 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:45,640 There's a lot of reading. That's always a challenge in 276 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:47,920 Star Trek is that the cards are trying to do too much. 277 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:50,680 So we'll see. We'll see. 278 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:53,400 That's not coming out till later so. 279 00:15:57,200 --> 00:16:03,480 Was it a solo game? No, no, it's a 224. 280 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:07,160 OK, two to. Four, two to four player, yeah. 281 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:11,280 So, but that's, that's the, that's, that's all the games we 282 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:13,680 brought. That's a good point. 283 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:16,400 Yeah. For one for a day. 284 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:19,080 Imagine going for three days. Oh my gosh. 285 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:22,800 Oh my gosh. OK, did. 286 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:24,960 You I would have had a copy of Charcuterie if I. 287 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:26,320 Was that the only game? Was. 288 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:30,760 That the only game that you, it was any games you saw that one 289 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:34,960 in your list of three, that you were like, damn, like if I'd 290 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:36,960 have been here on Sunday or Friday, not Sunday because you 291 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:40,680 were there on Sunday, on Friday, that you would have gone in the 292 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:44,840 bag. You know, the problem is I saw a 293 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:47,560 lot of sold out and it I didn't even think about like I. 294 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:50,800 Was like, Oh well. There were some games that we 295 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:55,000 looked at that we debated, but we chose not to because it was 296 00:16:55,000 --> 00:17:00,040 only one day. Power Up looks really cool. 297 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:07,400 What else did we see? Oh, From the Moon by Hashet. 298 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:10,400 I saw that at UKG. Oh my, it looked good. 299 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:13,720 It's a little cars, isn't it? And people sit in the cars or 300 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:17,319 rockets, I can't remember now. They're they're like lunar 301 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:18,400 lunar. Modules. 302 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:19,280 That's it. Lunar modules. 303 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:23,640 Oh my gosh, looks great. And then we, so while we were at 304 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:27,520 the CGE room at the beginning of the day, so they were doing a, 305 00:17:27,839 --> 00:17:32,400 they were doing a deal where if you bought, and I must say, 306 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:35,720 because we did a whole episode on this, if we, if you buy 307 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:41,480 Kootenahora and the metal coins they'll throw in, they'll throw 308 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:47,280 in a free enamel lapel pin. And this pin looks like a. 309 00:17:47,360 --> 00:17:51,840 Half envy There's no deal like that. 310 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:54,320 The Games Expo And did you But did you get a purple T-shirt? 311 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:57,120 No, I did not get a purple T-shirt. 312 00:17:57,840 --> 00:18:00,360 That I would have been really annoyed about. 313 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:02,080 I'll talk. I'll tell you something else 314 00:18:02,080 --> 00:18:03,880 about CG that I'm a little disappointed by. 315 00:18:04,120 --> 00:18:06,280 You know who was there? Who was there? 316 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:08,520 Pavelina. Did you? 317 00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:11,440 I didn't get to see her. You should have said that. 318 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:13,880 I've heard you give away your purple T-shirts. 319 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:16,960 If I'd have known that, if I'd have known she was there, I. 320 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:21,280 Saw, Yeah. But so we went up to the table 321 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:23,640 and we're like, hey guys, we already have Kootenahora. 322 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:27,800 We already bought the coins. We're like, we did an entire 323 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:29,640 episode of our podcast on Kuna Hora. 324 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:33,040 Can we get the pin for free? So they gave us the pin for 325 00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:33,480 free. So. 326 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:35,800 It's a nice pin. Which they were giving it out to 327 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:37,120 people, but you had to buy the game. 328 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:38,800 We already own the game. That's nice. 329 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:41,400 Yeah. So there's lots of deals like 330 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:44,000 that at Gencon. Buy this, get a little 331 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:46,080 something. For I mean, they may have had 332 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:49,840 that the games Expo, but I didn't even ask, damn it, right? 333 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:55,920 What about but people? You said you, you said you, you 334 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:57,760 had a gang. We did. 335 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:00,120 We did. Who did you see? 336 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:05,440 Everyone is these are all content creators and from 337 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:10,720 Instagram that we have previous relationships with that we've 338 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:18,600 hung out with and so yeah, here we go as you scribble really 339 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:21,600 loudly send. Me the list. 340 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:25,000 It's safely writing it down. I really got pen. 341 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:29,360 I will, don't worry. Anyone John at Driving Games 342 00:19:29,360 --> 00:19:33,080 read out everyone who follows an account now, which I've just 343 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:36,160 really forgotten. On his live last week there were 344 00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:39,200 71 accounts he was going to read out but he got to about 30 and 345 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:39,760 stopped. But. 346 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:43,160 OK, my list is not that long. OK, go. 347 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:46,120 I think the longer list is a list of people I didn't see. 348 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:58,720 So we saw at Running Board Gamer at nine to six games at Obsessed 349 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:04,600 with Board Games at Wanderer Maple. 350 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:08,320 Nice. At the Treasure Bell we got to 351 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:10,960 have dinner with her one-on-one, which was nice. 352 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:19,040 At the Masked Maple, Yep Yep. And then really excited to meet 353 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:26,080 at K&B Play Games. It was Kelly and Brandon's very 354 00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:27,840 first Gen. Con. 355 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:34,240 So thank you guys for taking the time to come and say hi. 356 00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:38,360 Also, I'm really happy to and excited to announce that I 357 00:20:38,360 --> 00:20:41,960 finally got to meet at Board Game Diaries. 358 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:46,400 They came all the way over from Europe. 359 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:52,640 Like, yeah, like, wow. And then, of course, at Family 360 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:57,800 Board Gaming, our really good friend at Tabletop Worldwide, I 361 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:02,360 got to bump into him at Welcome to Boredom. 362 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:05,800 I love that moment. I'm walking down the hallway and 363 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:09,280 I hear someone yell my name and I look over and it's Drew at 364 00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:12,440 Welcome to Boredom. It's just, it's like, OK, you 365 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:15,000 know, you've made it when someone as famous as Drew is 366 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:17,560 like, knows you by name and calling you out. 367 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:24,000 And then finally, Sam from Outrun the bear, we stopped by 368 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:30,120 and saw him and talked about his new game, Button Kingdoms. 369 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:34,160 Button Kingdoms, a game of fluff and corruption. 370 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:37,240 It's coming, coming soon. So you guys need to pay 371 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:38,920 attention to that. That's going to be fun. 372 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:44,640 And then then the best ever was at Fritz Paul. 373 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:51,800 I saw Fritz guys prestige funded that funded. 374 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:56,840 There is a game out there coming soon that I've written event 375 00:21:56,840 --> 00:22:01,240 cards for and that is awesome. Funded. 376 00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:04,400 I'm glad it funded. No, we were, we were sweating it 377 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:05,840 at first, but. Yeah. 378 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:10,760 I went up, we went up to the table, saw Fritz and he's like, 379 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:12,040 you want to see an overview of the game? 380 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:13,280 I'm like, yeah, man, show it to me. 381 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:15,240 And he's like, you know, he's telling me what's going. 382 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:18,240 And then this happens and this happens and this will trigger 383 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:19,760 draw an event card. He goes, why don't you go ahead 384 00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:21,280 and draw that event card? I'm like, OK, cool. 385 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:24,520 And I and it's, it's one of my cards that I wrote. 386 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:27,640 He's like, I was like, did you set that up? 387 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:29,720 You didn't know I was coming. He goes, I knew you were coming 388 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:33,600 today. So anyone who saw prestige, that 389 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:37,160 was the top card that everyone drew in his little demo. 390 00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:38,880 And I'm like, he's like, you can have that. 391 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:40,960 By the way, I was like, cool, so we've got a. 392 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:43,640 Few signed it and get back to him and said so you can keep it 393 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:49,760 signed. I thought about it, but you 394 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:55,800 know, well, you know, I did get a really cool, I guess it's a 395 00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:59,400 first player token for your one of your favorite games. 396 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:03,000 Let's go to Japan. Oh, that is nice. 397 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:06,480 Yeah, it's like a little wooden, we call it. 398 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:09,880 No, it's the. It's the arch which my brain. 399 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:12,880 It's the red. Welcome back to A Minute. 400 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:16,320 Arch. Thingy, everyone, you know what 401 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:17,120 it is that's. Lovely. 402 00:23:17,120 --> 00:23:19,240 That is, that is. Why wasn't that a Kickstarter? 403 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:21,080 I mean, the Super bling version. Oh. 404 00:23:21,120 --> 00:23:25,280 Come on. I've got an incomplete version, 405 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:28,520 but that is nice. So OK, so you've got a lot of 406 00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:29,880 games, you've got a lot of people in. 407 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:35,080 Did you see any other promos? Any other things you picked up? 408 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:37,960 We did. So we picked up a couple of 409 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:41,720 promos for Rolling Heights by AEG. 410 00:23:42,360 --> 00:23:46,080 They had two Kickstarter promo packs if you had backed Rolling 411 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:47,960 Heights, which of course we didn't. 412 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:50,680 We were late to those show, so we picked up some. 413 00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:52,880 So we got some more tiles for Rolling Heights. 414 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:57,040 We're excited about that. We were at Weird Giraffe Games 415 00:23:57,040 --> 00:24:02,920 and they were selling card sleeves and 3D wooden pieces for 416 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:06,720 Big Easy busking. Hey, New Orleans. 417 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:09,640 That game before, yeah. Yeah, we had a really good chat 418 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:13,800 with the with the guy at Weird Giraffe and he's like, yeah, no 419 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:17,160 one, no one plays this game. And it's like it's it's under 420 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:18,400 the radar. And I'm like, dude, it's 421 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:21,680 awesome. And yeah, we're crazy about it. 422 00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:26,440 So so we got that. We did get a promo card for 423 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:28,560 Gloom Haven. What is it? 424 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:31,680 Buttons and bugs. So. 425 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:36,160 Mini version there was there was an A promo card at Origins that 426 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:38,320 you could only get at Origins and then there was one for Gen. 427 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:40,280 Con. So we picked up since we got the 428 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:42,520 one at Origins, we got the one at Gen. 429 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:43,560 Con. So that was cool. 430 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:50,520 The guys at Party Tales, the designers of Time Lancers, which 431 00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:53,240 is which is working on fulfillment right now in terms 432 00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:58,120 of distribution, they had a promo of little upgraded 433 00:24:58,120 --> 00:25:02,800 components for the game. So we they weren't there on 434 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:04,560 Sunday and I reached out to them. 435 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:06,360 I was like, is there any way we can you know? 436 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:10,640 So they gave Sam from Outrun the bear. 437 00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:14,600 No, that's what he gets. A promos as soon as we go to 438 00:25:15,120 --> 00:25:16,840 Yeah, right. I mean, this is a great 439 00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:19,080 community. That's all I'm saying. 440 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:20,720 It's great. You got to love them. 441 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:23,800 We got some promo cards for Valiant Wars when we got the 442 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:26,840 expansion, so that was fun. And of course, you know, I got 443 00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:28,920 the prestige card. Yeah. 444 00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:31,480 So those are the promos. So we had promos and games. 445 00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:32,080 That's. Good going. 446 00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:34,080 Yeah. Oh yeah. 447 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:39,480 It's a good time, good time, right? 448 00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:41,880 And did you see any, we talked about Kickstarters a couple of 449 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:44,320 weeks, was that last week before did you see? 450 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:46,080 Any. We did Kickstarters or did you 451 00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:47,960 do any no play testing this time? 452 00:25:48,360 --> 00:25:52,480 No play testing, no play testing that that heart that broke my 453 00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:56,480 heart. I like play testing but but I 454 00:25:56,480 --> 00:26:01,680 did see a couple of demos of games coming to Kickstarter 455 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:07,600 soon, so the first one is Knitting Circle. 456 00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:12,440 Knitting flat circle? Is it a calico? 457 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:16,480 Game it is. It's about kittens and quilting. 458 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:19,800 Oh I love the artwork, it's really cute. 459 00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:24,760 It's calico style box. Well, it's it is the artist. 460 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:28,160 'S buttons with your V line friend. 461 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:33,560 That is coming. 2025 it says. Oh yeah, Yep. 462 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:34,400 So yeah. Kickstarter. 463 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:37,320 Yep. Yeah, it's nice. 464 00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:44,080 The next game we saw is by Dan Dan Kasar Kasar Kas. 465 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:49,480 It's called Mischief. It's a card game. 466 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:54,080 He is the designer of Arboretum. You know the card game 467 00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:56,000 Arboretum. There it is. 468 00:26:56,400 --> 00:27:00,240 Yeah, it's nice. This is coming out October 1st 469 00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:03,960 on Kickstarter. Encourage gnomes, sprites, 470 00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:06,840 ogres, and more to play mean tricks on one another. 471 00:27:07,120 --> 00:27:10,040 This game is cool. He was showing it to us and we 472 00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:14,320 were like, I gotta, I gotta have it. 473 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:17,880 Schemers choose pranks to make enemies look bad at the royal 474 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:22,800 merry wedding. Yes, yes, it's very cool. 475 00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:26,160 So that's that's October 1st on Kickstarter. 476 00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:30,920 Yeah it's it's so cool. It's really interesting the way 477 00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:34,040 you play pranks. It's like if I play A1, if I 478 00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:38,200 have a #1 ferry and you play a #5 ogre, then you probably pull 479 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:40,200 the prank. But if I have the number one 480 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:43,320 ferry and the number 2 ferry, then the number 2 ferry is 481 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:47,120 backing up the number one ferry. So you can't pull the prank. 482 00:27:47,120 --> 00:27:50,520 It's there's some interesting dynamics, yeah, interesting 483 00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:55,480 dynamics in the game. So yeah, check that out October 484 00:27:55,480 --> 00:28:01,600 1st and then another one coming out this fall, Everdel Duo. 485 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:08,240 Oh yeah, I've seen that, yeah. The the two player version, oh 486 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:13,480 man, look, it's what's. I prefer Everdel 2 player 487 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:16,120 anyway, so what's? What's? 488 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:18,160 Did you see it and what's different? 489 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:26,760 So it's very similar. It's analogous to Tokaido Duo. 490 00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:31,680 It has a smaller table presence, but you still get the flavour. 491 00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:35,720 The resources are the same, the artwork is the same. 492 00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:38,640 It's like a more of a compact version that doesn't take you 493 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:40,880 three days to get its table because there's so much in the 494 00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:41,640 big box. Yeah. 495 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:43,800 Exactly. And The thing is you have like a 496 00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:47,400 little sun marker and a little moon marker and it moves across 497 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:48,720 the board from the left to the right. 498 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:52,160 And if the sun makes it all the way, then then you can only take 499 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:55,280 moon actions because you have sun and moon actions, day and 500 00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:56,120 night actions. Yeah, yeah. 501 00:28:56,320 --> 00:29:00,080 When you get to the end, everyone goes to the next season 502 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:03,720 together. It looks like a nice, yeah, 503 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:07,040 compact version, maybe even good enough for traveling, you know, 504 00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:09,080 holidays or. I just, you know what? 505 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:12,200 Get a never doubt fix without I would I would definitely take 506 00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:14,080 this Facebook. Yeah, I would agree with that. 507 00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:16,680 Looks nice. The last one that we saw that 508 00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:20,720 I'm really excited about, and that's Western Legends stories. 509 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:30,320 Yeah, just look good. Oh my God, Gareth, it looks 510 00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:31,920 amazing. OK, so. 511 00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:34,200 This is standalone, right? It is. 512 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:37,360 It is totally stand alone. If you played Western Legends 513 00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:38,800 then you can go straight into this. 514 00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:43,200 It's legacy without destroying any components, so it's 515 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:44,880 resettable. So that's not a problem. 516 00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:53,040 You have episodes instead of chapters and you don't play a 517 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:56,600 named like in Western Legends. You might play Annie Oakley or 518 00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:58,040 Wyatt Earp or something like that. 519 00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:00,960 You don't have a name like you create your own name. 520 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:02,880 You are just someone in the Wild West. 521 00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:07,280 And the map will expand over time. 522 00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:10,160 So in the prologue, there are no minds. 523 00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:13,120 It's just you can, oh, oh, there's hunting. 524 00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:16,800 You can go hunting. You can interact with NPCS and 525 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:20,880 they have an NPC deck, so they do things rather than just stand 526 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:22,120 there. They will move. 527 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:24,760 When bandits finally show up, they move. 528 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,320 They don't just stand in that one spot. 529 00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:31,160 So you interact with NPCS, you can interact with animals, you 530 00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:36,360 can hunt animals. That's a new mechanic of the 531 00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:39,200 game. It looks gorgeous. 532 00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:45,080 Western Legends stories guys. Wow, they are hot tips. 533 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:49,760 Yeah, so we're coming towards the end. 534 00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:51,960 You must have some stats. I do. 535 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:53,800 We had some stats. So you can how many people 536 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:55,640 visited? You got those kind of stats. 537 00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:57,680 I do. I do. 538 00:30:57,680 --> 00:30:59,960 Well prepared PJ, let me get those stats. 539 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,080 You know, for a data guy. I know, I know. 540 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:04,280 You love these. You were one. 541 00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:08,600 Of No2 of because there's two of you 2 How many? 542 00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:18,000 71,000 attendees. One was it's. 540 exhibitors. 543 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:29,120 These are good stats. 24,000 events over the course of four 544 00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:34,600 days. 24,000. That's right. 545 00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:37,880 And then this is probably the best stat. 546 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:39,320 This is the one we want to celebrate. 547 00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:47,480 Slightly over $31,000 U.S. dollars was raised for various 548 00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:49,040 charitable. That's excellent. 549 00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:55,120 Efforts, yeah. So that that's really exciting. 550 00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:58,400 24,000 events. Does that mean that if we had a 551 00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:05,040 100 player game of Magic the Gathering, that would be one 552 00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:06,760 event? That's one event. 553 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:10,040 Funny, it doesn't make sense. Very good. 554 00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:14,040 Sure it's not 50 events? No SO. 555 00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:16,080 Four thing or some events. Yeah. 556 00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:20,360 So what it what it means is that you'll so let's say that you and 557 00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:23,440 I create a game, let's call it meeple to meeple the board game, 558 00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:25,720 right? And we're going to go and people 559 00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:30,040 sign up to play it like fully and it plays four players. 560 00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:32,600 So four people show up and play it. 561 00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:35,920 That is one event, four, but simultaneously there might be 562 00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:38,200 another table where four other people are playing. 563 00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:42,720 That's the second event. And if we do that twice over 2 564 00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:46,640 hour windows over four days, 2468, right? 565 00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:50,640 That's eight events. We could do more if we want, if 566 00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:53,080 time allows. And so X. 567 00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:59,360 Yeah, forty 44504 exhibitors doing demos 44 times with just 568 00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:01,440 about together. Oh, look. 569 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:03,080 I mean, there's more than there's. 570 00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:05,920 I was trying to work it out. So here's a big. 571 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:07,520 Number, but actually it's quite a small number. 572 00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:11,320 Now here's the. Here's the last one. 573 00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:12,680 Last one. Gen. 574 00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:19,920 Con 2025 is July 31st to August 3rd of next year. 575 00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:26,040 And listeners? Oh no. 576 00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:29,760 Yeah, I think we've got a clash. What do you mean? 577 00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:37,040 No, hang on, bear with me. I've got you my diary. 2025. 578 00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:40,240 Yeah. July 31st. 579 00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:47,680 August 3rd date? Yeah. 27th. 580 00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:51,280 Did you say it was July? Oh, it's the weekend after. 581 00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:52,440 That's great. We're. 582 00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:56,200 Supposed to be at the the Belgium Grand Prix, but that's 583 00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:59,600 like until the Sunday. So that is that is a bunch of 584 00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:03,320 cars going really fast. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 585 00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:06,000 Skip that and get to Gen. Con Gen. 586 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:10,560 Con Yeah. I know of at least. 587 00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:13,520 I know at least 71,000 other people. 588 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:15,080 Other people. Will see you. 589 00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:18,120 They want to see you. They want you to come. 590 00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:22,440 That's right. But July 31st, 5 days, I would 591 00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:24,520 just come on my own. I could do the what? 592 00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:27,719 Grand Prix is near. Yeah, it's all difficult. 593 00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:31,400 Anyway, we've got the date. July the 31st, August the 3rd, 594 00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:36,360 2025. Sounds like you had a fantastic 595 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:38,960 dime. It was, it was intense. 596 00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:41,040 It was good. There's so many people I didn't 597 00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:43,400 get to see though. That's the big disappointment. 598 00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:45,480 Yeah, and that's I had that feeling. 599 00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:47,440 Games Expo. You just you just. 600 00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:48,639 That's why. You. 601 00:34:48,639 --> 00:34:50,320 Don't you? Don't do one day. 602 00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:52,760 Don't do one day. No. 603 00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:55,760 Do it all. Yeah, I think Sunday was a good 604 00:34:55,760 --> 00:35:00,320 day because it is quieter. Yeah, it is. 605 00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:03,080 It is. Yeah, that's about it. 606 00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:05,880 I still got for you. That's that's all I got too. 607 00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:12,400 I mean, there were some big names that I saw walking across 608 00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:15,200 the hallway, but I didn't get to talk to them there. 609 00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:17,160 So it's not, you know, don't want to mention because it's 610 00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:18,680 like I didn't get to see them and talk to them. 611 00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:22,000 So you know, you know, but yeah. Sounds good. 612 00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:26,600 Yeah, so that is Gen. Con in one day, ladies and 613 00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:29,000 gentlemen. I don't recommend it. 614 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:31,320 Closing tip for if you did it in a day. 615 00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:37,120 You drink a lot of water. You got to stay hydrated. 616 00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:39,200 We say it all the time, but you've got to stay hydrated. 617 00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:44,440 Find a hydration station. Yes, yeah, that's it. 618 00:35:44,720 --> 00:35:48,480 I mean, really, I'd say don't do it. 5. 619 00:35:49,720 --> 00:35:54,680 Do all four days if you can, more if you've got the time, so. 620 00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:57,800 It's good. Well, thank you PJ sharing I've 621 00:35:57,800 --> 00:35:59,960 got there's a few games that have landed on my Kickstarter 622 00:35:59,960 --> 00:36:01,840 list now. Good, good. 623 00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:06,040 So next week, so this is episode 91. 624 00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:12,080 Next week, episode 92, I will be interviewing the wonderful 625 00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:16,640 designer Danielle Reynolds, Precaution Signs, which was 626 00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:20,600 released at Origins. But remind me to check the 627 00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:24,360 preorder, the preorder page it's still not available. 628 00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:27,640 It won the Best of Gen. Con award. 629 00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:32,800 It's so it's so on my list of things that I wanted before my 630 00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:33,920 holiday. I'm not around next week. 631 00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:37,800 PJ is on his own for two weeks. Everyone, I'm on my Holly Bobs 632 00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:41,080 but I wanted it for holiday travelling and it's just some 633 00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:43,280 pre-order. I know, I know. 634 00:36:43,720 --> 00:36:46,960 Running out of time? Let's just check, make sure 635 00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:51,120 nobody else has got it in stock because you know, all pre-order 636 00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:54,040 could be after after Holly Bobs. Sorry. 637 00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:59,280 That's all right are. You you got anything special 638 00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:01,360 that you're any games you're going to play while you're on 639 00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:03,680 holiday? Yes, that is one of the jobs for 640 00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:07,120 the rest of this week is how many board games can I put into 641 00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:10,960 small plastic containers and fit into a suitcase? 642 00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:18,000 Because currently, I think today it was 34, but wow, 3039° it 643 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:22,240 felt like. So I don't mind. 644 00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:25,400 I don't mind sitting in the shade and just playing ball 645 00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:26,320 games for two weeks. Yeah. 646 00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:28,840 Yeah. Pretty good. 647 00:37:30,720 --> 00:37:32,640 You could do it if anyone could do it. 648 00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:34,840 Maybe I could take my no, it's too much weight. 649 00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:37,200 Maybe I was thinking I could take my mic and I could record a 650 00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:41,840 podcast from my son lounger. I don't want you to do that so 651 00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:44,600 real quick Should we do? Oh, so two things really 652 00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:46,160 quickly. One is the voice over. 653 00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:47,840 We got to do that real quick. I'm pretty. 654 00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:51,840 You better choose do Star Trek. No, I've already chosen. 655 00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:54,800 OK, OK. So here's the thing, two weeks 656 00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:58,840 ago when we did it, I did a voice over and I had some people 657 00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:00,800 that couldn't recall what game it was. 658 00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:04,000 I did one for Botany last week with Duck Somnium. 659 00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:07,280 So did you figure out what game it was that I read? 660 00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:09,560 Two weeks ago. Two weeks ago. 661 00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:14,440 It was the Mississippi. My brain's forgotten. 662 00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:17,440 Mississippi Queen. That's it. 663 00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:19,760 Mississippi Queen. It's had a reprint. 664 00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:22,120 I just worked that out. There were two versions. 665 00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:24,240 There's like an old version and a newer box. 666 00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:28,680 This is a game. This is a game I picked up at 667 00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:31,680 Gencon so I brought it with me. Have you mentioned any of? 668 00:38:31,720 --> 00:38:34,080 This today. I did, but I'm not. 669 00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:35,640 Going to It's good, it's good, it's good. 670 00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:40,800 Here we go. Fill your house with cats, mice, 671 00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:45,320 and dice. Form rooms using numbers, then 672 00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:49,080 use the room's special abilities to score the most points. 673 00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:52,000 With four unique levels and random combinations of 674 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:57,520 abilities, you get near endless replayability and new challenges 675 00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:01,320 every time. This is a quick and clever 676 00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:07,800 rolling right game with puzzly cats and dicey mice. 677 00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:15,440 Answers in the comments. Let us know what game did I read 678 00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:17,080 off and maybe I'll tell you next week. 679 00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:23,680 Don't forget, right, OK, well, thank you for the for the voice 680 00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:27,320 over and absolutely have a good couple of weeks and then I'll 681 00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:29,600 see you when I get back. Yep, enjoy the holiday. 682 00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:31,920 Thank you very much. Thanks for listening everyone. 683 00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:36,400 Thanks everyone for listening, please subscribe and as always, 684 00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:40,360 we'd love to hear your thoughts and ideas, so make sure to leave 685 00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:44,520 those in the comments and don't forget you can also chat with us 686 00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:47,280 both on Instagram at Meeple to Meeple.