Episode 218:  Sam Healey

News: (05:30)

• Nominations announced 2023 Spiel Des Jahres - German Game of the year

  • Spiel (Family Game): 

    • DorfRomantik, Fun Facts, Next Station London

  • Kennerspiel (Connoisseur's game): 

    • Challengers, Iki, Planet Unknown

  • Kinderspiel (Children's Game): 

    • Carla Carmel, Gigamons, Mysterium Kids

• Dead Cells: The Board Game

  • Currently on Kickstarter: Dead Cells: The Rogue-Lite Board Game - “Explore the ever-changing island of Dead Cells in this ruthless co-op metroidvania dungeon crawler. Explore. Kill. Die. Mutate. Repeat.”

  • This is a board game based on the popular video game of the same name. 

  • Published by Scorpion Masqué, designed by Antoine Bauza, Corentin Lebrat, Ludovic Maublanc, Théo Rivière, with art by aure de Chateaubourg, Xavier

• Creature Caravan

  • Coming to Gamefound this fall (Estimated launch of September 2023) - Creature Caravan by  Ryan Laukat and Red Raven Games

  • 1-6 players featuring simultaneous play

  • From BGG: “In Creature Caravan, players build a card tableau of creatures while traveling through a magnificent and dangerous land. Players take turns simultaneously, placing dice on actions on their cards, moving their caravan on the map, and playing new creature cards. Players also compete to trade goods and rare coins in a shared market, search the mysterious white towers, and fight ember zombies as they travel. The game ends when one player reaches Eastrey. The player with the most points wins.”

• War of the Ring: The Card Game - Against the Shadow

  • Designed by Ian Brody and published by Ares Games, is the first expansion for War of the Ring: The card game. 

  • This allows for solo or 2 player cooperative mode. Players play as the free people and take on the shadow which is controlled by cards and a flowchart. 

  • Estimated Retail release fall 2023

• Ticket to Ride Legacy??

  • Teaser trailer released by Days of Wonder for a new Ticket to Ride project coming this fall, designed by Alan R. Moon, Rob Daviau, and Matt Leacock. 

  • Speculation of a Ticket to Ride Legacy and or cooperative game based in the USA?

What have we been playing: (33:20)

• Human Punishment 2.0

• Hand to Hand Wombat

• Marvel: Dice Throne

• Project: L

• Revive

Topic: The Flipside of Boardgaming with Sam Healey! (1:02:10)

• Focusing on the community  of board games instead of chasing the “cult of the new”

• Live Q&A’s every Saturday

• Live plays

• Road Trip videos to different FLGS

• Will be at Origins and maybe PAX Unplugged

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• On Twitter @samhealey74

• On Instagram @samhealey6

• On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Samuel.L.Healey/

• On Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SamHealey6

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