The BGG Show: Live from Gen Con 2018, Albeit Now Not Live Since We Recorded This

The BGG Show: Live from Gen Con 2018, Albeit Now Not Live Since We Recorded This
From gallery of W Eric Martin
Gen Con 2018 was a whirlwind of activity, with the BGG team recording two hundred or so game overview videos over the four days of the show. I imagine those videos will start popping up on YouTube and on the individual game pages before too long, but for now we have only this episode of The BoardGameGeek Show, which Scott Alden, Rodney Smith, Steph Hodge, Lincoln Damerst, and I recorded on Thursday night after we had kicked out our last guest for the day.

The big news of the day was the revelation of Richard Garfield's KeyForge, which Fantasy Flight Games had revealed during its In-Flight Report on Wednesday night before Gen Con opened. I've already written a long piece about this game, mostly focusing on the game's production and not its design, but that's mostly because I had played only twice at that time. (I've still played only twice at this point, alas. Too much Gen Con work and SPIEL '18 prep getting in the way!)

We cover a few other games that we saw at the show as well, while probably being ready to fall asleep in the process — or maybe that was just me?




Show notes:

00:23 Introductions
00:51 KeyForge - Richard Garfield - Fantasy Flight Games
09:04 Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul-Kar - Rob Daviau, JR Honeycutt, Justin D. Jacobson, Chuck Kennedy, Bruce Lund - Restoration Games
10:50 Victorian Masterminds - Antoine Bauza, Eric M. Lang - CMON Limited
12:58 Newton - Simone Luciani, Nestore Mangone - CMON Limited
14:00 Ghost Fightin' Treasure Hunters: Creepy Cellar Expansion - Brian Yu - Mattel
15:15 Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team & Warhammer: Age of Sigmar 2nd Edition - Games Workshop Ltd.
16:10 Blitz Bowl & Space Marines Adventures & Lord of the Rings Adventure Game
16:30 Talisman: Legendary Tales - Michael Palm, Lukas Zach - Pegasus Spiele
17:00 Doomseeker - John Cadice, David Freeman - Ninja Division
17:15 Warhammer 40,000: Heroes of Black Reach - Yann and Clem - Devil Pig Games
19:05 Audience question about Imaginarium release
19:25 Tokyo Highway to be distributed by Asmodee North America
20:45 Stone Age: Anniversary Edition announced
21:40 Blank Expansion: Blankdemic - Matt Leacock - Hub Games
23:30 Audience Questions
26:15 Good-byes from Gen Con 2018
26:40 Discussion with Ani & Sebastian

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