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The BGG Show: Moving to the Clouds, Preparing for Spring, and Playing Some Games

It's time for another episode of The BoardGameGeek Show, and for the first time since we launched in January 2018, I'm not on it — which means that I have no idea what happened except via the summary below. I'm in the same situation as everyone else for once, presented with a highlight list and taking things from there.

Me not being there, though, is probably good thing since I was able to keep working on BGG's SPIEL '18 Preview. Nearly one thousand listings at this point, and my inbox has been flooded with messages related to SPIEL '18 this morning while I was playing games with guests. More updates coming for another two weeks, with our livestream demo schedule going live on Monday, October 15 and as many game preview videos as I can finish in the next three weeks. That pedal has already met the metal...




00:23 Introductions
00:44 BoardGameGeek cloud server migration complete
03:07 BGG.Spring 2019 registration opens
04:40 BGG@Sea Cruise registration opens
07:36 What Have You Been Playing?
08:13 Arraial - Nuno Bizarro Sentieiro, Paulo Soledade - MEBO Games
09:20 Realm of Sand - Ji Hua Wei - EmperorS4
10:13 History of the World - Gary Dicken, Steve Kendall, Phil Kendall - Z-Man Games
14:47 Twilight Imperium: Fourth Edition - Christian T. Petersen, Dane Beltrami, Corey Konieczka - Fantasy Flight Games
21:44 Rise of Queensdale - Inka Brand, Markus Brand - alea, Ravensburger Spieleverlag GmbH
34:11 Swordcrafters - Chris Neuman, Adam Rehberg - Adam's Apple Games
36:25 Cahoots - Jay Treat - Mayday Games
41:35 Show & Tile - Matt Loomis, Isaac Shalev - Jellybean Games
45:20 Azul wins the 2018 Deutscher Spielepreis
48:40 Kickstarter News - The Stygian Society from Kevin Wilson and APE Games
49:45 Chaz Marler tells us about the second episode of his new game show "Who's Playing What Now?!"
52:35 Goodbyes

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