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Patrick and Eric in the Morning is a spinoff of the Golden Geek-nominated What Did You Play This Week Podcast — which featured both Patrick Hillier and Eric Buscemi as regular contributors. When, after nearly four years, WDYPTW wound down, Patrick and Eric decided to continue recording a free-form conversation-style show together loosely inspired by Troy and Abed’s morning show from the cult classic sitcom Community. Each episode, for around half an hour, the co-hosts discuss a broad topic — including individual board game mechanisms, game catalogues of notable designers, and recent tabletop events they’ve participated in — instead of regularly previewing or reviewing specific games.

Patrick and Eric in the Morning Patrick Hillier and Eric Buscemi

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    • 4.5 • 33 Ratings

Patrick and Eric in the Morning is a spinoff of the Golden Geek-nominated What Did You Play This Week Podcast — which featured both Patrick Hillier and Eric Buscemi as regular contributors. When, after nearly four years, WDYPTW wound down, Patrick and Eric decided to continue recording a free-form conversation-style show together loosely inspired by Troy and Abed’s morning show from the cult classic sitcom Community. Each episode, for around half an hour, the co-hosts discuss a broad topic — including individual board game mechanisms, game catalogues of notable designers, and recent tabletop events they’ve participated in — instead of regularly previewing or reviewing specific games.

    47 - Patrick and Eric in the Morning - Deluxification

    47 - Patrick and Eric in the Morning - Deluxification

    • 32 min
    46 - Patrick at Origins

    46 - Patrick at Origins

    • 23 min
    45 - Patrick and Eric in.... New York?

    45 - Patrick and Eric in.... New York?

    Patrick and Eric catch up after a break.  They were able to meet up at Eric's house for a weekend of gaming and cover many of the games they had discussed wanting to play together on previous episodes plus a few new things.

    • 56 min
    44 - Patrick and Eric in the Morning - Friends of Valaria

    44 - Patrick and Eric in the Morning - Friends of Valaria

    Patrick and Eric catch up on recent plays and talk about games from Daily Magic Games and their current kickstarter of three games they had a chance to play.
    Recorded on 11/20/21
    Recently Played Games:
    Patrick:
    Gravwell 2nd Edition (3rd) Whirling Witchcraft Eric:
    The Crew: Mission Deep Sea Furnace DMG Games We’ve Played:
    Go Nuts for Donuts 10 Minute Heist: The Wizard’s Tower Horizons Food Truck Champion Kitten Klash Swinging Jivecat Voodoo Lounge Three new Valeria games from Daily Magic Games:
    Dice Kingdoms of Valeria is a 1-to-6 player roll & write game designed by Levi Mote with art by The Mico Thrones of Valeria is a 2-to-6 player trick-taking and rank manipulation game designed by Matt Jacobs with art by The Mico.  Siege of Valeria is a solo-player castle defense game designed by Glenn Flaherty with art by The Mico. @overthehillier
    @ericbuscemi
    punchboardmedia.com

    • 38 min
    43 - Patrick and Eric in the Morning - Driving Flatout

    43 - Patrick and Eric in the Morning - Driving Flatout

    Flatout Games is a board game design collaborative that was founded in 2017 by Molly Johnson, Robert Melvin, and Shawn Stankewich. They are “focused on creating innovative and elegant game experiences” and “love puzzly games with simple rules, high replayability, and great tension and decision-making, typically with low-luck, high-skill euro-style mechanisms.” 
    As a design collaborative, they have several published designs, including the 2018 Cardboard Edison and LUCI award finalist Point Salad (AEG), Public Market (Talon Strikes Studios), Dollars to Donuts (Crafty Games), Abstract Academy (Crafty Games), Truffle Shuffle (AEG), and TEN (AEG).
    In early 2019 Flatout Games created The Flatout Games CoLab, allowing the founding members of Flatout Games to team up with established and emerging designers in the board game industry and make games together. The CoLab has published Calico and Cascadia, and is currently working on publishing Verdant.
    Eric:
    Point Salad Public Market Dollars to Donuts TEN Calico Cascadia Verdant Patrick
    Point Salad TEN Calico Cascadia Verdant Verdant Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/flatoutgames/verdant
    Online solo play here:
    Cascadia: https://cascadiagame.github.io/
    Verdant: https://verdantgame.github.io/

    Beth Sobel kickstarter
    https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bethsobel/river-and-stone-playing-cards
     

    • 38 min
    042 - Patrick and Eric in the Morning - On Brand

    042 - Patrick and Eric in the Morning - On Brand

    Recorded 9/12
    Discussion
    Inka / Marcus Brand - Married couple, won Kennerspiel des Jahres for the Exit series
    Patrick
    La Boca Village - take actions - take time, when you cross the time track someone dies and they go into the book of the villagers or anonymous graves Rajas Exit series Orleans: Invasion (with Reinr Stockhausen) - Invasion co-op and prosperity scenario (other stuff in box too) Murano - glass factories of Venice and gondoliers moving around the outside of the board in a rondel like mechanism Word Slam Noch Mal (Encore) roll and write  Eric
    Rajas of the Ganges Rajas: Dice Charmers La Boca Word Slam Exit series (some with Ralph Querfurth) Other notable games:
    Saint Malo (roll-and-write) Rise of Queensdale (legacy/campaign) Available online (all on Yucata):
    Rajas of the Ganges Rajas: Dice Charmers Murano Noch Mal app @overthehillier
    @ericbuscemi   
    Punchboardmedia.com
     

    • 34 min

Customer Reviews

4.5 out of 5
33 Ratings

33 Ratings

The Sherpa! ,

Enjoy the Banter

Decent enough short form podcast with nice people.

Jacobbocaj22 ,

Great board gaming podcast

I love Brandon's take on games. This has quickly become one of my favorite podcast for the tabletop gaming hobby! Love all the different perspectives on display in this podcast. Keep it up!

Akuden ,

This one has grown on me

I wasn’t sure if I enjoyed this at first but it has really grown on me. Listening to Patrick and Eric talk about games is quite enjoyable and a bit relaxing. They have also introduced me to several games that I would have never known about. Highly recommended!

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