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 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... |
| BGB Volume 72 - Essen 2009, Part 1 - Intro and Arrival | 10:00 | 10/22/2009 | BGB is podcasting from Essen and this is the first in a group of shows. I recorded this one quickly on Wednesday night of the show and then added to it the following morning - but it was done quickly and there is no time to edit. Hope you enjoy the 10 minutes of it. Better shows with proper... |
| BGB Volume 71 - Stories of Self-Publishing v3 - Tasty Minstrel Games | 1:14:41 | 09/27/2009 | Yes, can you believe it? Two BGBs in a week? I guess it's all those energy drinks... No, it's that I am getting ready to head out to Essen for Spiel this year and want to clear the backlog as much as I can. I also really want to get this show out, which I think is an interesting one in the Stories... |
| BGB Volume 70 - Q&A with Jason Matthews at Gateway 2009 | 1:00:08 | 09/20/2009 | Boardgame Babylon is back with a great new volume of BGB's Q&A series. I'm honored to have another favorite game designer on the show and this time, it's the award-winning Jason Matthew - he of Twilight Struggle and 1960: Making of a President fame. Jason was good enough to... |
| BGB Volume 69 - Small World, Archaeology: The Card Game, and Snow Tails | 54:46 | 07/23/2009 | After an early summer break, Boardgame Babylon returns with a session review show featuring some of the top games from our demo tables at Gamex 2009, including: Days of Wonder's Small World designed by Phillip Keyaerts Z-Man's Archaeology: The Card Game by Phil Harding Asmodee's Snow Tails by... |
| BGB Volume 68 - Q&A with jim pinto at Gamex 2009 | 1:02:13 | 06/15/2009 | I don't have a proper theme for this show so I'm throwing it into my Q&A series even though I'm the only one asking the questions. However, I'm very happy to have one of my favorite guests back on the show â board game developer and graphic artist jim pinto (yes, he's like k.d. lang and e.e.... |