My favorite board game podcast
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“Edit 2/19/21: This is my favorite board game podcast. Walker and Bigney are well prepared, knowledgeable and honest. They work very well together as cohosts and seem to genuinely get along. The show moves along quickly and they make frequent reference to the mechanical predecessors and development history of the games they discuss.
Bigney does not shy away from controversies and important issues within the industry. His opinions on these topics are reliably well thought out and helpful. Many, many BG podcasts/ YT channels seem to avoid naming names and leveling due criticism towards games/ KS projects they haven’t enjoyed. The impact is that analog games as an experiential art form suffer from a lack of critical analysis and an abundance of cheerleaders (some paid, some volunteer).
Unlike other podcasts, Walker and Bigney don’t feel the need to appease the sensitive in our hobby with preambles about how they respect all game designers and/or fans of a game. It’s an assumed that they’re delivering their honest thoughts about a game based on years and years of experience in the hobby.
I cannot recommend this podcast enough to people who are into the hobby.
Only recommendation: Try to paint a little bit better visual picture of the board game. Giving a sense of the relative spatiality of a game through audio will always be very hard, so this might just be a function of the medium.
Prior review:
Mark and Walker are insightful, honest and very well versed in the history of board games. This podcast does not cater to the “feel good” audience of board gamers who can’t handle harsh critique or a strong opinion.
Snowflakes criticizing this podcast because conversation occasionally brushes up against politics or personal tastes with respect to social issues need to stop watching Fox News. Those angry about Mark’s vocabulary are the kind that struggle with their, they’re and there.
Really, really great work, guys. Thank you so much for producing such high quality content.
Current favorite board game podcasts in order:
So Very Wrong About Games
Board Gamers Anonymous
Game Brain
Board Game Barrage
Shut Up and Sit Down
No Pun Included
Design:
Ludology
Board Game Design Lab
The Game Design Round Table
Nerdlab
The Ascent of Board Games”
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