*Note: all events are tentative and there are likely to be changes! More to be added!
SHUX’22 Event Schedule
SHUX'22 Main Stage - Friday
Featuring: Quintin Smith, Matt Lees, Tom Brewster, Ava Foxfort, Pip Warr
When: Friday Sept. 30 • 10am-10:30am
Where: The Theatre
The convention begins with a bang! Welcome to our big show! Or at least our show. A show with us! The people, pears and misfits of SU&SD. Don’t miss our grand opening!
Featuring: Quintin Smith, Tom Brewster, Ava Foxfort
When: Friday Sept. 30 • 11:00am-12:00pm
Where: The Theatre
Capacity: 454
What are team SU&SD most excited for this SHUX? Come find out as we do a podcast where you can see our faces! What delightful sorcery!
Featuring: Tom Brewster, Pip War, Matt Lees
When: Friday Sept. 30 • 12:30pm-1:30pm
Where: The Theatre
Capacity: 454
What do you mean you have questions? It's Component Crusher.
Featuring: Matt Lees, Ava Foxfort, Pip Warr, Isaac Vega
When: Friday Sept. 30 • 2pm-3pm
Where: The Theatre
Capacity: 454
SU&SD needs your help to read each other's minds! Come sync up with us as we play the world's largest-ever game of Wavelength!
Featuring: Alan Gerding, Matt Lees, and More!
When: Friday Sept. 30 • 3:30pm-5:30pm
Where: The Theatre
Capacity: 454
Watch an actual play session of MOTHERSHIP 1E, the sci-fi horror roleplaying game. In just two hours, Alan Gerding (host & game warden) will take his players from character creation to (hopefully) the completion of a concise one-shot adventure!
CONTENT WARNING! This is a horror game containing depictions of death, mutilation, body-horror, and stress.
Featuring: Jonathan Ying and More!
When: Friday Sept. 30 • 6pm-7pm
Where: The Theatre
Capacity: 454
Industry veteran game designers look back at mistakes made and lessons learned from their earliest and weirdest titles.
If you're an aspiring game designer, or you ever wondered how your favourite game designers Got Good, you won't want to miss this one!
Featuring: Quintin Smith, Ava Foxfort, Pip Warr
When: Friday Sept. 30 • 7:30pm-8:30pm
Where: The Theatre
Capacity: 454
Are the members of team SU&SD in fact artificial intelligences, masterfully deceiving legions of viewers? Come find out as we put them to the test under the hot-hot lights of the SHUX theatre main stage!
Here's what happened last time we played, jet lag can only ensure even more susceptible test subjects! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRVZmHld144
Featuring: SU&SD vs BGB
When: Friday Sept. 30 • 9pm-10pm
Where: The Theatre
Capacity: 454
SU&SD and BGB Play Hundreds of Horses, but with a twist! Have we flogged this meme to death? Come find out Friday night!
SHUX'22 Main Stage - Saturday
Featuring: Tim Eisner, Emma Larkins, Peter McPherson, Molly Johnson
When: Saturday Oct. 1 • 10am-11am
Where: The Theatre
Capacity: 454
Join a group of eye-wateringly experienced game designers as they discuss the ins and outs of boardgame design! Each designer will prepare several questions in secret to ask the other game designers. Get an inside view of the game design process, pitfalls, successes and ??? With an audience Q&A at the end!
Featuring: So Very Wrong About Games & Quintin Smith
When: Saturday Oct. 1 • 11:30am-12:30pm
Where: The Theatre
Capacity: 454
Quinns: So what are we planning on talking about exactly?
SVWAG: Thrill to the added sensory input of visuals for this extra-intimate live episode of So Very Wrong About Games! The award-winning* board games podcast about board games will be incorrect in person, and hosts Walker and Mark will be joined by extra-special guest Quinns.
*Yeah, we don't really know how that happened either.
Quinns: That's definitely not what I asked.
Featuring: Isaac Vega, Lindsey Rode, Emma Larkins, Tim Eisner
When: Saturday Oct. 1 • 1p-2pm
Where: The Theatre
Capacity: 454
The Rose Gauntlet Team, Isaac Vega & Lindsey Rode, are joined by Emma Larkins and Tim Eisner to discuss their mutual love of plant themes as well as how games have helped them grow as people and designers. We will dive into our ups and downs, major milestones, why we love plants, and new projects we have coming up, such as Rose Gauntlet's Wild Gardens! Attendees who have participated in the foraging scavenger hunt at the show can also expect to participate in some fun mini games throughout the panel to win prizes! You won't want to miss it! For more info on the foraging scavenger hunt, stay tuned to the @RoseGauntlet twitter throughout the show!
Featuring: So Very Wrong About Games & Board Game Barrage
When: Saturday Oct. 1 • 2:30pm-3:30pm
Where: The Theatre
Capacity: 454
A joint live show for the past two winners of Board Game Geek's Golden Geek for best board game podcast!*
It'll be a lot like other epic crossovers such as Aliens vs. Predator or Marvel vs. Capcom, except probably with more talk of board games.
The discussion will focus on a provocative assertion made during the waning moments of SHUX'19: "[Board game publishers] are not your friends."
*There's no accounting for taste.
Featuring: Pip Warr, Tom Brewster, Jonathan Ying, Lindsey Rode
When: Saturday Oct. 1 • 4pm-5pm
Where: The Theatre
Capacity: 454
Join Pip Warr & Tom Brewster from SU&SD aslong with Jonathan Ying and Lindsey Rode as they play MonsDRAWsity: Usual Suspects and talk a bit about making the art for this very game!
These incredibly talented artists will take prompts from each other to draw what THEY think the other is describing. How is that a tentacle Tom?!
Featuring: Quintin Smith, Matt Lees, Pip Warr
When: Saturday Oct. 1 • 5:30pm-6:30pm
Where: The Theatre
Capacity: 454
Do you have a disagreement on a rule, a game or a way of playing? Do you have a financial or emotional dispute that you just can't solve? Come down to Quinns' court where he will offer a hasty and legally binding dispute. Unlicensed public defense lawyers - Matthew Lees and Phillipa Warr - available on request. Time to Lawyer Up!
Featuring: Board Game Barrage & Tom Brewster
When: Saturday Oct. 1 • 7pm-8pm
Where: The Theatre
Capacity: 454
Tom: So what are we going to be talking about, tank bois?
BGB: Join Board Game Barrage live as they record a special SHUX episode with guest Tom of SU&SD joining the fray!
Tom: That's incredibly unhelpful. I guess I'll just play Biblios to prepare then, shall I?
Featuring: Matt Lees, Quintin Smith, Ava Foxfort, Tom Brewster
When: Saturday Oct. 1 • 8:30am-10pm
Where: The Theatre
Capacity: 454
As is tradition, and so it shall be.
*CONTENT WARNING* by this point in the show all good taste is out the window, so prepare for some colourful language and frank answers to our audience's barrage of questions.
SHUX'22 Main Stage - Sunday
Featuring: Alan Gerding, Matt Lees, Ava Foxfort, and More!
When: Sunday Oct. 2 • 11:30am-1:30pm
Where: The Theatre
Capacity: 454
Watch an actual play session of FATHERFOG, the fairytale horror roleplaying game. This is the upcoming RPG by Tuesday Knight Games, creators of MOTHERSHIP. In just two hours, host Alan Gerding will take his players from character creation to (hopefully) the completion of a concise one-shot adventure.
CONTENT WARNING! This is a horror game containing depictions of death, mutilation, body-horror, and child violence.
Featuring: Quintin Smith, Ava Foxfort, Tom Brewster, Pip Warr
When: Sunday Oct. 2 • 12:30pm-1:30pm
Where: The Theatre
Capacity: 454
You thought that grand opening was our ONE live podcast event at our own bloody convention?! You were wrong, friend. The very best kind of wrong. Come join us as we talk about… games, probably? We'll talk about the best new titles we found at SHUX, and you should of course expect surprises!
Featuring: Quintin Smith
When: Sunday Oct. 2 • 2pm-3pm
Where: The Theatre
Capacity: 454
In this entirely non-religiously affiliated show Quinns will hear your stories and cleanse you of game shame. Do you hate a genre of game? Have you ever cheated? Were you ever a problem player? Do your tastes not align with those of SU&SD? Come down, share your pain and seek forgiveness.
Featuring: Matt Lees, Ava Foxfort, Tom Brewster, Pip Warr
When: Sunday Oct. 2 • 3:30pm-5pm
Where: The Theatre
Capacity: 454
Join Team SU&SD for some live trivia-adjacent action as they see who has the most wits, and who has the most …wagers.
Featuring: Quintin Smith, Matt Lees, Pip Warr
When: Sunday Oct. 2 • 5:30pm-6pm
Where: The Theatre
A fond farewell and thank you to all our SHUX’22 attendees! *Phew* What a weekend! Thanks for coming everyone!
SHUX'22 Event Rooms
Featuring: The Pandemonium Institute
When: Games starting every hour, daily!
Where: BOTC Space
Capacity: 5-20
In the quiet village of Ravenswood Bluff a demon walks amongst you, killing by night and taking human form by day. Will the good townsfolk put the puzzle together in time to execute the true demon, or will evil overrun this once peaceful village? Blood on the Clocktower is a captivating and addictive social bluffing game for those who delight in deduction and deception. No two games are ever the same and no player is ever eliminated. In Blood on the Clocktower, death is not the end…
Blood on the Clocktower is a social deduction game for 5-27 players, plus the Storyteller (the game’s moderator). It is played in a circle talking to each other, with the moderator conducting the action and making crucial in-game decisions. Imagine Werewolf but where the moderator has a whole board to play with that other players aren’t allowed to see. Games running every hour on the hour, signup sheet in the room.
Featuring: Alan Gerding
When: Friday Sept 30 • 11:30am-1pm
Where: The Event Room
Capacity: 6-30, First Come, First Serve
Stop your President from being blown up! But who is the President? More importantly… Who is the Bomber?!
In this social game of hidden roles and deduction, players are divided into 2 different rooms. Find your teammates, establish trust, and exchange hostages before time runs out and the bomb explodes! It’s the party game that’s always a blast.
Try out fresh off the presses expansions before anyone else!
See SU&SD play here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMy2EDfkTa8
Featuring: Jonathan Ying
When: Friday Sept 30 •1:30pm-2:30pm
Where: The Event Room
Capacity: 27, First Come, First Serve
This ain't Fortnite. Spot It! (also known as Dobble) is a classic picture-matching children's game for two-to-eight players.
At least that's what the publishers WANT you to think. But here at SHUX, mad game designer Jonathan Ying would like to present his personal favorite variant that can be played by a frankly irresponsible number of players. Come play this fast-paced children's game with up to TWENTY-SEVEN other human beings.
The rules are incredibly simple, taking less than a minute to learn and about 5-10 minutes to complete a full round. We'll be running games around every 15 minutes! Come on by and see if you have what it takes to win the SPOT-IT BATTLE ROYALE.
Featuring: Jennifer Abele & Nick Vance
When: Friday Sept 30 • 3pm-4pm
Where: The Event Room
Secret Sith
Capacity: 6-20, First Come First Serve
Secret Sith is a hidden role game of intrigue and betrayal set during the fall of the Galactic Republic. Each player is randomly and secretly assigned to be a Loyalist or a Separatist, and one player is the Secret Sith - Emperor Palpatine. The Separatist coordinate to sow distrust and install their dark-sided leader; the Loyalists must find and stop the Secret Sith before it's too late. The Loyalist team always has a majority but doesn't know who's on their team. Secret Sith is a fan conversion of Secret Hitler and is similar to games like Resistance, Werewolf, and Mafia.
Games take 45-60 minutes.
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Jasper Goes to War
Capacity: 2-4 / 4-8 players - First Come, First Serve
Jasper Goes to War is the working title for a brand new prototype from Jennifer Abele (creator of Tooth or Bear). It's that classic card game War but with more strategy. Come by and test this never before seen game and look at cute pictures of Jasper the Rottweiler!
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Tooth or Bear
Capacity: 4-8, First Come, First Serve
Tooth or Bear is a friendly chat and chill, social game. Come try this group hug experience!
Tell stories and make new memories with friends and strangers. Written by Aerospace Engineer and game designer Jennifer Abele.
Featuring: Jennifer Abele & Nick Vance
When: Friday Sept 30 •4:30pm-5:30pm
Where: The Event Room
Secret Sith
Capacity: 6-20, First Come First Serve
Secret Sith is a hidden role game of intrigue and betrayal set during the fall of the Galactic Republic. Each player is randomly and secretly assigned to be a Loyalist or a Separatist, and one player is the Secret Sith - Emperor Palpatine. The Separatist coordinate to sow distrust and install their dark-sided leader; the Loyalists must find and stop the Secret Sith before it's too late. The Loyalist team always has a majority but doesn't know who's on their team. Secret Sith is a fan conversion of Secret Hitler and is similar to games like Resistance, Werewolf, and Mafia.
Games take 45-60 minutes.
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Jasper Goes to War
Capacity: 2-4 / 4-8 players - First Come, First Serve
Jasper Goes to War is the working title for a brand new prototype from Jennifer Abele (creator of Tooth or Bear). It's that classic card game War but with more strategy. Come by and test this never before seen game and look at cute pictures of Jasper the Rottweiler!
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Tooth or Bear
Capacity: 4-8, First Come, First Serve
Tooth or Bear is a friendly chat and chill, social game. Come try this group hug experience!
Tell stories and make new memories with friends and strangers. Written by Aerospace Engineer and game designer Jennifer Abele.
When: Friday Sept 30 • 6pm-7:30pm
Where: The Event Room
Capacity: TBD
RATS: High Tea at Sea is a print & play, roll & write boardgame for 2-6 players that’s playable over the internet, in the same room, or a combination of the two! It is preposterously easy to learn and teach, but has sneaky twists and turns that will reveal themselves every time you play - a lovely little treat for whoever fancies climbing aboard.
You’ll play through 5 turns. Each turn has three steps:
- At the start of each turn, the Host rolls a pair of dice and determine a Banquet Goal.
- The Host makes 3 "scavenge" rolls and rats collect supplies.
- The Rats compare supplies with the Host to see who gets to take special actions. There are five different types of supply, and five different things you can do.
Goals are scored at the END of the game. The game ends after five turns. The last turn begins when you circle the 5th goal. After this final turn, the rats throw the banquet. The Host who was decided at the end of the final turn leads the rats through the Awards Ceremony, checking each circled Banquet Goal from lowest to highest number to see who won awards for each goal.
The rat with the MOST awards is deemed the most fabulous aboard and wins the ship’s only life raft. (If there is a tie, the final Host selects which rat with the most awards deserves the life raft.) Everyone applauds the winner. Finally, the rat with the FEWEST awards flips a coin. If the coin lands on heads? Congratulations! All the rats escape into the ice-cold water, moments before the ship sinks. But if the coin lands on tails? Do send our regards to the captain.
Featuring: Alan Gerding
When: Friday Sept 30 • 8PM-9:30PM
Where: The Event Room
Capacity: 6-30, First Come, First Serve
Stop your President from being blown up! But who is the President? More importantly… Who is the Bomber?!
In this social game of hidden roles and deduction, players are divided into 2 different rooms. Find your teammates, establish trust, and exchange hostages before time runs out and the bomb explodes! It’s the party game that’s always a blast.
Try out fresh off the presses expansions before anyone else!
See SU&SD play here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMy2EDfkTa8
Featuring: Jonathan Ying
When: Saturday Oct 1 • 9:30am-10:30am
Where: The Event Room
Capacity: 27, First Come, First Serve
This ain't Fortnite. Spot It! (also known as Dobble) is a classic picture-matching children's game for two-to-eight players.
At least that's what the publishers WANT you to think. But here at SHUX, mad game designer Jonathan Ying would like to present his personal favorite variant that can be played by a frankly irresponsible number of players. Come play this fast-paced children's game with up to TWENTY-SEVEN other human beings.
The rules are incredibly simple, taking less than a minute to learn and about 5-10 minutes to complete a full round. We'll be running games around every 15 minutes! Come on by and see if you have what it takes to win the SPOT-IT BATTLE ROYALE.
When: Saturday Oct. 1 • 11am-1pm
Where: The Event Room
Math Trades are a fantastic way to do some trading without the hassle of finding trade partners and haggling. Loads of info on BGG if you’re up for some swapsies, find out more here!
Featuring: Quintin Smith, Matt Lees, Pip Warr, Ava Foxfort, & Tom Brewster
When: Saturday Oct. 1 • 2pm-4pm
Where: The Events Room
Come and meet Matt, Quinns, Ava, Tom, and Pip from popular internet web site Shut Up & Sit Down! Autographs, selfies and small talk available upon request.
Yes, it's free. Our egos are large enough already.
Featuring: Jennifer Abele & Nick Vance
When: Saturday Oct 1 • 4:30pm-5:30pm
Where: The Event Room
Secret Sith
Capacity: 6-20, First Come First Serve
Secret Sith is a hidden role game of intrigue and betrayal set during the fall of the Galactic Republic. Each player is randomly and secretly assigned to be a Loyalist or a Separatist, and one player is the Secret Sith - Emperor Palpatine. The Separatist coordinate to sow distrust and install their dark-sided leader; the Loyalists must find and stop the Secret Sith before it's too late. The Loyalist team always has a majority but doesn't know who's on their team. Secret Sith is a fan conversion of Secret Hitler and is similar to games like Resistance, Werewolf, and Mafia.
Games take 45-60 minutes.
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Jasper Goes to War
Capacity: 2-4 / 4-8 players - First Come, First Serve
Jasper Goes to War is the working title for a brand new prototype from Jennifer Abele (creator of Tooth or Bear). It's that classic card game War but with more strategy. Come by and test this never before seen game and look at cute pictures of Jasper the Rottweiler!
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Tooth or Bear
Capacity: 4-8, First Come, First Serve
Tooth or Bear is a friendly chat and chill, social game. Come try this group hug experience!
Tell stories and make new memories with friends and strangers. Written by Aerospace Engineer and game designer Jennifer Abele.
Featuring: John D. Clair
When: Saturday Oct. 1 • 6pm-7:30pm
Where: The Events Room
Capacity: up to 18 players
In Ready Set Bet, you and your friends head to the races for a day of cheering, jeering, and betting on your favorite horses, whose fates hang on every roll of the dice.
Ready Set Bet is played over four rounds. Each round consists of a race followed by bet resolution. During each race, players freely place their bet tokens on the board while the race is going on. After each race, players win or lose money for each of their placed bet tokens, then receive a VIP Club Card to help them win more money in the following races. After four rounds, the player with the most money wins!
Featuring: Alan Gerding
When: Saturday Oct 1 • 8PM-9:30PM
Where: The Event Room
Capacity: 10-35, First Come, First Serve
BIDDY PARTS is a team-based auction game that plays between 10 and 35 players. In this cadaverous game, you and your teammates are mad scientists attempting to construct and reanimate the best abomination. To do so, you need body parts. Welcome to the BIDDY PARTS Auction House where your team must outbid and outwit your vile counterparts. Will your team construct the best monster on the block and still have enough cash left over to pay the electric bill, or will your experiments fail?
Featuring: Jonathan Ying
When: Sunday Oct 2 • 9:30am-10:30am
Where: The Event Room
Capacity: 27, First Come, First Serve
This ain't Fortnite. Spot It! (also known as Dobble) is a classic picture-matching children's game for two-to-eight players.
At least that's what the publishers WANT you to think. But here at SHUX, mad game designer Jonathan Ying would like to present his personal favorite variant that can be played by a frankly irresponsible number of players. Come play this fast-paced children's game with up to TWENTY-SEVEN other human beings.
The rules are incredibly simple, taking less than a minute to learn and about 5-10 minutes to complete a full round. We'll be running games around every 15 minutes! Come on by and see if you have what it takes to win the SPOT-IT BATTLE ROYALE.
Featuring: Jennifer Abele & Nick Vance
When: Sunday Oct 2 • 11am-12pm
Where: The Event Room
Stop your President from being blown up! But who is the President? More importantly… Who is the Bomber?!
In this social game of hidden roles and deduction, players are divided into 2 different rooms. Find your teammates, establish trust, and exchange hostages before time runs out and the bomb explodes! It’s the party game that’s always a blast.
See SU&SD play here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMy2EDfkTa8
Featuring: Jon Perry, Alex Hague, Justin Vickers
When: Sunday Oct 2 • 12:30am-1:30pm
Where: The Event Room
Spots: A push your luck game with dice, dots and dogs in collab with Jon Perry (Air Land & Sea), releasing Q4 2022
Featuring: John D. Clair
When: Sunday Oct. 2 • 2pm-3pm
Where: The Events Room
Capacity: up to 18 players
In Ready Set Bet, you and your friends head to the races for a day of cheering, jeering, and betting on your favorite horses, whose fates hang on every roll of the dice.
Ready Set Bet is played over four rounds. Each round consists of a race followed by bet resolution. During each race, players freely place their bet tokens on the board while the race is going on. After each race, players win or lose money for each of their placed bet tokens, then receive a VIP Club Card to help them win more money in the following races. After four rounds, the player with the most money wins!
Featuring: Stephanie Kwok
When: Sunday Oct. 2 • 3:30pm-4:30pm
Where: The Events Room
Capacity: up to 8 players
Welcome to the Duck Sanctuary! Come enjoy the company of the ducks while visiting the different locations around the park.
In Ducks in Tow, you are walking around the park feeding the ducks their favorite food. When you feed them, they start following you and you must lead them to their favorite location in the park.
When you successfully lead them to their favorite location, you take a photo with them and they waddle off to find their friends. Maybe you’ll see them again later as you continue your walk around the park.
You will be completing Location Cards that will gain you points at the end of the game. Once you have completed a few Location Cards, you might be able to claim a Formation Card, which will give you additional points at the end of the game.
Stephanie will be playtesting some new expansions of the game so if you'd played the base game, she'd really love you to come by. New players full welcome!