They're Called Victory Points -- Table Talk (and friends‪)‬ Taylor G.

An experimental podcast with only one voice about games getting reskinned. What are your favorite reimplementations? What makes them better than the original? Or, alternatively, worse?
 
Games mentioned in this episode:
Curios
Wonder Woods
Century: Golem Editions
Furnace
Azul: Master Chocolatier
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After a hiatus of embarrassing length because of a disastrous attempt to record an actual play podcast of the infuriating and deeply beige game De Vulgari Eloquentia, we return triumphantly for our first double-digit show! Taylor and Alice talk about reorganizing Alice’s collection and both best practices and pitfalls around that.
 
Games mentioned:
Codex Naturalis
Sagrada: Artisans
Robot Quest Arena
Dominion
Cosmic Frog
Robo Rally
Crash Octopus
Succulent
Mechanical Beast
Gallerist
Gartenbau
Finest Fish
Scrabble
Fearsome Floors
Masterpiece
Queendomino
Kingdomino
Trailer Park Wars
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Was GenCon 2023 a dumpster fire? Or just a smoldering waste paper basket? Listen on, friends, as Taylor and Alice wax poetical!

Games mentioned:
Disney Lorcana
Cosmic Frog
Gartenbau
The Finest Fish
Habitats
Framework
Fairy Trails
Nova Luna
Applejack
Ticket to Ride: Europe
Undergrove
Lacuna
Mycelium
Wonder Woods
Curios
Starry Night Sky
Quoridor
Qawale
Pollen
District Noir
Three Sisters
Splito
Cat in the Box
Gardeners
Bear Raid
Ra
Indian Summer
At the Gates of Loyang
Galaxy Trucker
Everdell: Farshore

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Taylor G and Alice C talk with RPG superstar designer Cezar Capable about design, feelings, colonization, and, apparently, zombie cows.
 
 Cryptid: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/246784/cryptid

Paint the Roses: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/253759/paint-roses

Century: A New World: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/270970/century-new-world

Furnace: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/318084/furnace

I Guess This Is It: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/346911/i-guess-it

Alice is Missing: https://www.huntersentertainment.com/alice-is-missing

Nexalis: https://capacle.itch.io/nexalis

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This week, Alice and Taylor have some strong feelings about house rules for board games. 
 Games referenced in this episode:
Curious Cargo
New York Zoo
Beer and Bread
Renature
Azul: Queen’s Garden
Glass Road
Patchwork
Monopoly
Viticulture
Parks
Uno
Scrabble
Mahjong
Rummikub
Euchre
Dominoes
Canasta
Rummy
Shanghai
Jenga
Tzolk’in
Founders of Teotihuacan
Catan
Royal Game of Ur
Ticket to Ride
Wingspan
Gizmos
De Vulgari Eloquentia
Caper
Control
Surrealist Dinner Party
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The Game Changers podcast on Klaus Teuber and the history of CATAN can be found on iTunes and Spotify.
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It took us a while to get our meeply asses in gear, but we (Alice, Bailey, David, Taylor, and Victoria) finally managed to get together in one (virtual) place and pay tribute to Klaus Teuber, designer of CATAN (originally The Settlers of Catan) and one of modern Eurogaming’s OG’s.
After starting off with the usual “what we’ve been playing”, we share our earliest memories of CATAN and other Teuber favorites, discuss CATAN’s role as a gateway game and whether it’s still the gateway game, whether it still stands up design-wise today, and end off by comparing our favorite CATAN variants.
On the way we also talk about the following games:
Ticket to Ride
Hoplomachus: Victorum
Dixit
Kinoko
CATAN Histories: Struggle For Rome
Settlers of the Stone Age
CATAN Histories: Settlers of America: Trails to Rails
Fairy Trails
Wacky Wacky West
Machi Koro
Space Base
Read our latest musings on Tabletop games and culture at www.dailyworkerplacement.com.
The Game Changers podcast on Klaus Teuber and the history of CATAN can be found on iTunes and Spotify.
Check us out at https://theyrecalledvictorypoints.com/ or on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/theyre_called_victory_points/!