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Mousetrap Never Works

mercutiom — Tue, 04 May 2010 23:15:02 +0000

We’ve all played the game “Mousetrap” at some point in our lives. For me it was one of those games my friends had, but my parents never bought for me and my brothers.

A good thing too as, if I remember, we always had the problem that the darn thing never really lived up to the hype. Well, someone has taken the frustration you and I felt as children and put that to song.

The song is a parody of the recent OK Go song “This Too Shall Pass” in which they created a rather large and complicated Rube Goldberg machine. Their’s, however, did actually work.

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Gaming Can Make A Better World

mercutiom — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:22:56 +0000

I’m a big fan of the TED conference and the talks that come out of it. Today I was catching up on some of the more recent ones and this video struck a particular chord that I thought should be shared with the community here.

I think it’s important that we take whatever strides we can to change the world for the better, regardless of what your version of better is. I find it interesting that someone is out there studying how online games can lead us to that future.

So, while I don’t play WoW (as I’ve mentioned before) I think there’s more to this than that simple forum. I think that those of us who love and enjoy games are better suited to helping the world because we’re used to working together and socializing in ways that will allow us to make the changes necessary.

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Episode 022: Tichu

Gordon1018 — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:23:11 +0000

Not often do you find a game that is so universally loved by your gaming group and family that you actually wear copies of it out. I found this game in Tichu. I grew up as early as 8 years old playing Pinochle, so I have a long-time attraction towards trick-taking games. I had read about and heard about this game numerous times online, but had never got the opportunity to play it. I even bought a copy on Funagain.com during their fall clearance sale. Too bad the rule book was in German.

When my wife and I got to Dallas for BGG.con the forst game that we were asked if wanted to Learn was Tichu. It was love at first “bomb”. We literally cannot get a group of people together without someone asking if we can play it.

Enjoy our video. IT was tough to get all the info into less than ten minutes, so if you have questions or comments we’d love to hear from you. We love this game, and I’m sure you would also if get the opportunity to play.

World Of Wifecraft

mercutiom — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:58:41 +0000

While I’ve never played World of Warcraft (the closest I’ve gotten was the Leroy Jenkins video) I thought this was worth sharing. What if the addicting MMORPG were a real-life game with the goal of being a better husband?

BGG.con 2009 Final wrap up part

Gordon1018 — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:21:49 +0000

Here’s the final part of the three part series about our BGG.con 2009 experience. WE just got back froma weekend of gaming and I played a whole bunch of new stuff, so you’ll be hearing from me a lot very soon. In the “REad the rest of the entry” area I’v also re-embedded the other two parts for those of you who wish to watch from the beginning. Thanks a lot for watching.

D&D Players, Watch This

mercutiom — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:32:42 +0000

I’ve never really played D&D, but as a gamer, I’ve definitely seen it played, and have been involved in a few of the typical conversations (read: arguments) that surround a typical run-through. If you’ve played the game, or are like me and know what’s involved, then you have to watch this movie.

While the film didn’t have the high budget that I personally believe it deserved, it was still amazingly well put together. The characters were impressively in depth, and the dialog is almost as quotable as “The Princess Bride” (likely the most quotable movie ever.)

I’m not going to go into depth on what the movie is about, but if you have a Netflix account or video store nearby, go watch it now. If you’re not tearing up with laughter by the end, then you should head to the doctor to have your sense-of-humor repaired.

wrap up- video part 2

Gordon1018 — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:26:57 +0000

Here’s the continuation of the Stevenson’s BGG.con saga. Hope you’re enjoying the videos so far.

Leave comments. We’d love to hear from you and if there are any games we talk about in this video you’d like to hear more about, let us know and we’ll do a bigger review in the future.

Thanks for wattching, tell your friends

BGG>con 2009 Wrap up video

Gordon1018 — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 01:51:44 +0000

Yeah, I know we’re late, but better late than never. We recorded this just after Thanksgiving, but ahve never had a chance to edit and post it due to the holidays. Hope you enjoy.

We talk about all the people, games, and events that made the conference great.

Thanks for watching. Parts 2 and three will be up later this week.

Episode 021: Castle Panic

Gordon1018 — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 07:13:37 +0000

There are a lot of games that we have heard about. Games that we have anticipated the release of and know will be a hit. This is not one of those games. I had never heard of it, until the game’s designer offered a good deal on pre-orders for BGG.con. After I placed my order sight-unseen, I started doing a little research. There wasn’t too much available, but the idea looked great.

At the convention, I got to meet the designer and talk with him, and do an interview. He was amazingly nice, and my interst was peaked in the game. I brouht my copy home, and tried it with my family. We loved it right from the get-go.

The game is simple, and elegant in it’s rules and components, but rich and deep in the strategy and gameplay.

It is a cooperative play game, like Pandemic or Shadows Over Camelot, but there is still an individual winner of the game: if you survive.

It’s not too difficult sometimes, and almost impossible at others. I have modified the rules a little, and think it fits the type of gamers we have, but the rules as written are concose, clear and provide for great gameplay. Check out the video and at the end I’ll tell you the variations I’ve made that I think add another dimension to the game.

This is my choice for the absolute Sleeper choice of the year. One of my favorites out of all the games I own, and easily one of the best I’ve played this year. Pick it up, check it out, and buy it…….NOW. Seriously, you’ll love it.

Okay, my changes. We take the suggested starting forces that are listed in the game, but we roll the dice for each to create a more random and more difficult starting configuration. The rules say that we decide where they go.

This is the big one: Lately, we;ve been taking any monster that is killed/destroyed by in game mechanic or objects, are replaced back into the pool of monsters to be drawn. This means that we don’t win until we kill every monster ourselves. Anything removed from the game by way of wall damage, tower damage, boulders, etc… will be drawn again later. The strategy changes a lot becasue you have to decide when there are many enemies at the gate who you are okay with coming back again. This is especially brutal whenn you get the special bosses put back in the box. Try it out, it;s a lot of fun.

Thanks for watching,

Brian

Episode 020: the one where we make fools of ourselves

Gordon1018 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:21:25 +0000

WOW!

I can’t believe we made 20 videos now. That’s a lot of time I could’ve spent watching Project Runway. Just kidding, I never miss Project Runway. Anyways, instead of a normal review I thought it would be fun to look at us being stupid.

I know what you’re saying. “Isn’t that what a normal review IS?”

No, Normally we wouldn’t be trying to be stupid, this time I’m specifically finding the stupid parts.

Enjoy the blooper reel, it was a lot of fun to look at the older videos and laugh at ourselves.

Thank you so much to our viewers, without you we wouldn’t be here. We appreciate you a lot, and love hearing from you in comments and E-mails.

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