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Board Game Impact Bruce Brown
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Board Game Impact podcast shares waht experiences we are having so that you can make informed decisions for yourself and your gaming group. This is done by breaking down board game hobby related experiences through an educational lens that has been developed over years of teaching at universities and adding in scholarly research whenever possible, and combining that all for you to get more enjoyment out of this amazing hobby.
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Episode 73 – Pikes Peak Gamer Con
This past weekend I had the privilege of traveling to Colorado Springs for Pikes Peak Gamer (PPG) Con! This local convention with a library of over 1,300 great games was an absolute blast. In this episode I talk all about the convention and speed run through the some of the games we played. Of course we also give an important update on Tabletop Alliance, our 501c3 nonprofit that spreads games to students across the US!
Games Discussed:
* All Creatures Big & Small
* Carooka (both snooker & pool)
* Darwin’s Journey
* Terraforming Mars: Aeres Expedition
* Strike & Tournament
* Azul
* Japanese Card Games
* Volltreffer (Underground labyrinth and Five Tribes)
* Nana
* Potato Man
Special shoutouts to Jon, Lainie, Jose, Angela, Sean, Peter, Mitchel, Denis, Dwayne, and others for making the weekend so great!
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Episode 72 – Chicken
This episode is all about the little dice game that captivated me from GAMA Expo and was just released by Keymaster games...Chicken! In addition, Bruce shares some incredible news about Tabletop Alliance and how the article linked in these notes went out to 90,000 teachers in the National Education Association (NEA) magazine!
TO support and donate to Tabletop Alliance go to - https://tabletopalliance.org/
NEA Article - https://www.nea.org/professional-excellence/student-engagement/tools-tips/want-your-teaching-game-let-students-play
Pikes Peak Gaming Con - https://pikespeakgamers.com/
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Episode 71 – Dorfromanik
Today's episode is all about the 2023 Spiel des Jahres winner, Dorfromantik! This tile laying gaming campaign experience took my family by storm while we attended BGG.Spring. You definitely want to hear about all the interesting things this game facilitated for us!
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Episode 70 – Hunt A Killer: Body on the Boardwalk
In this gamine experience deep dive we talk all about the Hunt A Killer Mystery Box: Body on the Boardwalk case. This case experience was sent to us by Hunt A Killer and we are glad they did because it was a really great mystery to solve and the components were beyond anything we had seen in this kind of experience to date.
If you would like to try a Hunt A Killer case, feel free to use anyone of the codes that they sent us for use on their website:
* For $10 off any Item "HUNTGA1010"
* For 10% off an order "HUNTGA10"
* For 20% off either a 6 month or 12 month subscription "HUNTGA20"
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Episode 69 – Team Games & Learning Journeys
In this episode of Board Game Impact released on 6/9 we welcome Dean as a guest so we can chat about team games, particularly the Crew and the lessons we learn while playing games together. This includes the game strategy, group meta, and more all related back to Blooms Revised Taxonomy for learning outcome development!
Dean's BGA Username = OccamsRazor
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Episode 68 – Disney Lorcana
This episode is all about getting to be one of the first to play Disney Lorcana while at the GAMA Expo 2023 and my first impressions of the trading card game. Disney Lorcana is set to release to retail late summer 2023 with their "first chapter" set that will have 204 uniquely new Disney art! The game is designed by Ryan Miller and Steve Warner, who were the two people who also taught me how to play!
Make sure to listen to the whole episode to know all of my impressions on the game, conversations with the designers, and the owner of Ravensburger.
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