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Podcast #184 – A Wibbly Wobbly Egg (Live!)

Tom: Live and happening, it’s a podcast! When I edit podcasts, I usually slice out the bits where I sound silly, or ask if it’s ‘time to talk about Rats’ too many times; but in the live format, they have to stay. On this very special episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Matt and his two adult children are talking about a bunch of games! We’ve got the absolute excess of Wonderlands War, the snakes-and-ladders-worker-placement of First Rat and the secret sneaky bidding of Dreadful Circus alongside plenty of healthy chat about a Wibbly Wobbly Egg from Dodo. Enjoy!

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Tom: zzzzz… zzzz …. Zzzz ….

Ava: Tom! Wake Up!!!

Tom: AHGh! Ava! Why are you here? Did I accidentally resurrect the multi-person-back-and-forth for a convenient framing device, only for you to vanish entirely not three lines later?

Ava:

Tom: Alright. No need to be rude.

In this X-Ray-Slow-Motion episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are talking about two games that couldn’t be more different. First up, we’ve got the alien hospitality of Space Station Phoenix – a eurogame where you destroy your own worker placement spaces! And secondly, we’re talking Sniper Elite: The Board Game – a thematic hidden movement game where you destroy a submarine and also maybe some Nazis.

Have a great weekend, everybody!

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It’s a big one! In this lengthy videofilm, Tom takes a look at the work of Project NISEI and their version of Android: Netrunner! Is it good? Is it GREAT? Does it stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the original? Find out the answers to some of these questions for the low low cost of just 32 minutes of your life.

This one was a bit of beast, took me forever, and I don’t know what to do with myself now. Enjoy!

Ava: What’s a Monday with you? It’s going to be a pretty cool week on Shut Up and Sit Down Dot Com and I’m here to tell you all about it.

This weekend we’ll be heading to Burning Ham (have I got that right?) for the UK Games Expo. We’ll be pottering about and looking at things, and you’ll be able to catch us doing live shows on TWO different slots across the weekend: Friday 17:00 – 18:00 and Saturday 18:30 – 19:30, both taking place in the Toute Suite. Come along and see us talk games!

Tom’s running the video this week, so we can expect a midweek drop of something he’s been excited to work on for literally the whole year. I’ve no idea if it’s going to end up as a massive opus or something a bit more svelte, but I think it’s going to be quite a catch either way. Good luck Tom!

The podcast is a Tom and Matt affair, with chats about Sniper Elite and Space Station Phoenix. Ooh, what’s that word that’s like alliteration but specifically for esses? Hopefully we’ll find out on Friday’s podcast.

I declare Tuesday shall be a day of streaming, and in the afternoon I’ll be taking some more ‘plop-em-ups’ for a ride, as we had some good chat about them while trying out Dorfromantik. So far I think we have Townscaper and Islanders on the line up, but we might move around a bit, and if anyone’s got suggestions, let us know!

This week Matt discovers a latent love for trains, as he stumbles onto a lightweight co-op gem! Collisions and co-ordination aplenty in Switch & Signal. What’s your favourite flavour of train?

All Aboard! — The Cooperative Train Game You begin this cooperative, family-friendly train game by controlling just a few trains on the tracks. At first, it’s easy to make them travel where you like. As more trains arrive, you have to plan and coordinate your train schedules. Is the signal green? Where is this train … Read more

Tom: Readers, you join me for a practically goofless Monday Post. I’ve just poured 90% of my creativity into a string of very silly words that will maybe one day become a Shut Up & Sit Down video, but until then, I’m spent. It’s Monday! Time to tell you about it!

At some point in the Wednesday/Thursday nebulous VideoTime you can anticipate another fine production from Shut Up & Sit Down studios! We’re talking about a game! What game? I fear to give a single clue for the accuracy of your guesses are simply ferocious.

Twitch? Quite possibly! On Probably Thursday or Improbably Tuesday (my favourite days of the week) either myself or Ava will record video directly into the harddrive of your brain. Exciting! Expect videogames and rambles, in that order, if at all.

On Friday, you can expect a podcast where two strange hosts will chat about two strange games. Myself and Matt will first tackle the oddity that is the Sniper Elite Boardgame, before moving on to Rio Grande’s latest efficiency-obtainer Space Station Phoenix!

That’s this week! What have you been up to recently, everyone?

In this apparently aquatic episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom, Ava, and Matt are talking about some suspiciously dry games! And spinners. And Twister.

First up is Khora: Rise of an Empire – the ultimate spreadsheet experience! Tom then rambles about Boonlake for a moment, before Ava takes us home with Founders of Teotihuacan; the game which we essentially forgot to have a discussion about.

Have a great weekend, everybody!

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What’s this?! Could it be? They said it couldn’t be done…

Yes, today SU&SD has released none other than a ginormous video review of a role-playing game. The award-winning game of Spire casts a party of players as members of an underground resistance cell, making small acts of rebellion in a society that will almost certainly kill them. This book is imaginative, evocative and has a marvelous sense of humour… but it turns out Quinns had a bit of a problem with it, too.

Enjoy, everybody.

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