77 – The Family Gamers Podcast – Isaac Shalev, Seikatsu designer
This week, we talk to Isaac Shalev, co-designer of one of our new favorite games: Seikatsu.
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75 – The Family Gamers Podcast – PAX Unplugged Interviews
This week, we’re bringing you all the interviews we recorded at PAX Unplugged. There are a lot of interviews, so it’s another extra-long show. But first, some special guests – Asher and Claire!
» Read more73 – Brian and Jill Bollinger, Wild East Games – The Family Gamers Podcast
This week’s podcast, we talk to Brian and Jill Bollinger from Wild East Games. We have mentioned their games Pie Rats of the Carob Bean Farm and Pitman in previous episodes. They have a new expansion for Pie Rats, out on Kickstarter now.
» Read more71 – The Family Gamers Podcast – Jason Kotarski from Green Couch Games
It’s time for another interview! This week, we’re talking to Jason Kotarski from Green Couch Games. Their new game Best Treehouse Ever: Forest of Fun is on Kickstarter now.
» Read more67 – The Family Gamers Podcast – Scream or Die Interview
We have a great Halloween-themed game to share with you this week. Dennis Michael Sawyers from Amber Palace Games joins us. His game Scream or Die is a family-friendly dice game for 2-8 players.
» Read more65 – The Family Gamers Podcast – Boston FIG 2017
It’s our favorite time of year! We discuss our favorite games from Boston FIG, with special guest, Corey Lagunowich. Then, listen to interviews from the show floor with Andrew.
» Read more63 – The Family Gamers Podcast – Potato Pirates with Aditya Batura
Aditya Batura is co-founder and CEO of Codomo Inc., a technology education group based in Singapore. They teach children about programming at an age-appropriate level, and wanted to bring that to a larger community. Enter Potato Pirates, the game that “teaches 10 hours of programming in 30 minutes”.
» Read more61 – The Family Gamers Podcast – After School Board Game Club with Liz
This time we have a special guest in the studio! Our friend Liz Kelley is a staff writer for The Family Gamers website, but she’s also a teacher. Since school starts this time of year, we wanted to talk to her about something special: she coaches the board game club at her school.
» Read more59 – The Family Gamers Podcast – Chris Anderson
This week’s interview is with Chris Anderson, a board game designer (Blue Cube Board Games) and host of The Board Game Workshop podcast.
» Read more57 – The Family Gamers Podcast – Andy Geremia Redux
We’ve brought Andy back on the show to talk about two new games he has coming out now from FunWiz (a division of FoxMind), Brew Dice and Sports Dice: Baseball.
» Read more55 – The Family Gamers Podcast – Chris Nichols, Card Caddy Inventor
It’s an odd-numbered show, so that means we have a guest! This week, it is Chris Nichols, inventor of The Card Caddy. The Card Caddy was born of necessity; when Chris’s son was younger, he wanted to play Uno everywhere. The cards were always getting mangled by rubber bands, or slipping out of the crummy paperboard box to scatter everywhere.
» Read more53 – The Family Gamers Podcast – Marc Specter of Grand Gamers Guild
We interview Marc Specter, the man behind Grand Gamers Guild, and their games Pocket Ops, Unreal Estate, and Stroop.
» Read more51 – The Family Gamers Podcast – Donovan Eberling and Jeff James
Donovan Eberling and Jeff James are the founders of Iron Hippo Games and co-creators (or maybe “architects”) of Tournament of Towers, a dexterity game now on Kickstarter.
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45 – The Family Gamers Podcast – Tucker Smedes – CardLords
On this short podcast, Andrew talks to Tucker Smedes at CardLords, the creator of the game BattleGoats and their new game, Take the Gold.
» Read more43 – The Family Gamers Podcast – Jeff Johnston Interview
Jeff Johnston designs games as a hobby. He is the mind behind Pair of Jacks Games, and Anitra sat down with him at Granite Game Summit 2017 to talk about 3 of his published games: MoonQuake Escape , Flashlights & Fireflies, and Toasted or Roasted. MoonQuake Escape is published by Breaking Games. Plot your escape from an alien prison.
» Read more41 – The Family Gamers Podcast – PAX East Interviews
This week’s podcast is a compilation of interviews from the show floor at PAX East 2017. Andrew talks to Zoink Games, Andrew Innes (creator of Anomia), Jammed Up Studios, and GameWright.
» Read morePAX East 2017 – Jammed Up Studios
We met up with Adric Polkinghorne of Jammed Up Studios who was showing off their soon-to-be-released game Think of the Children! – a cooperative parenting simulator. Think of the Children is a hilarious, and perhaps a little too-close-to-home look at the zany life of parenting multiple children. Check it out!
» Read morePAX East 2017 – Anomia!
We finally get the chance to meet up with Andrew Innes to talk about one of our favorite games, Anomia! Listen as he talks about his Duple re-release and the two new Anomia branded games coming this year!
» Read morePAX East 2017 – Zoink Games
We stumbled across Flipping Death from Zoink Games, a wonderful video game for Switch and PC that reminded us of a very colorful Nightmare Before Christmas! Listen to the interview to hear when this adorable looking indie game will be coming out!
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