Everyday Meeple

19/03/2023

We know its pretty niche-y but if you happen to have a VR headset we have another short immersive video up on YouTube that lets you shrink down on the table and see the larger than life charm of Takenoko by Antoine Bauza.

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01/07/2022

Get On the Table with Wasteland Express. If you have a VR headset you can shrink right down and stand with the minis in a 360 immersive photo.

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14/06/2022

Put on your VR headset and climb On the Table to take a close-up look at the wonder of Creature Comforts. Our second "On the Table" VR experiment is a look at the fantastic family game Creature Comforts, published by Kids Table Board Gaming. The game is designed by Roberta Taylor with art by Shawna JC Tenney. Climb onto our table and take a look around at the beautiful art and fantastic components....

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Put on your VR headset and climb On the Table to take a close-up look at the wonder of Creature Comforts. Our second "On the Table" VR experiment is a look at the fantastic family game Creature Comforts, published by Kids Table Board Gaming. The game is designed by Roberta Taylor with art by Shawna....

08/04/2022

On the table with Wasteland Express We are here for the vikings. In particular we are here for the Champions of Midgard. A game by Ole Steiness game from 2015 that combined worker placement and combat dice into a beautiful rich thematic gem of a table top adventure. The game’s central mechanic has players using workers rushing about their viking village running errands to get their warrior pals ready to battle Trolls and Draugr, and packing supplies to head over the sea on heroic journeys to fight mythical monsters....

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Get On the Table with Wasteland Express. If you have a VR headset you can shrink right down and stand with the minis in a 360 immersive photo.

10/06/2021

So Steve tried out Ruthless and now he is a pirate. These things happen. Check out his review and maybe becoming a pirate yourself.

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Ruthless is a perfect example of a modern card game. A game that has suits and poker hands but, because of its theme and setting, the rules make sense to me. It’s a card game that uses poker-style hands as a mechanic but bids adieu to the Royal suits of traditional playing cards. Replacing them in...

05/03/2021

Steve reached out to Thomassie Mangiok and asked a few questions about his game Nunami. Check out the interview on our site.

https://everydaymeeple.com/nunami/

When an article appeared on Steve's computer screen one day announcing that Nunami was the first Inuit- designed board game and that it had a positive environmental message, he immediately wanted to know more. Steve reached out to the designer of the game, Thomassie Mangiok and he was kind enough to...

19/02/2021

Pops & Bejou Games reached out recently promoting their soon to launch Kickstarter for their first game CULTivate. A quick look at the box art had me hooked enough to dive a little deeper resulting in this short interview.

https://everydaymeeple.com/pops-bejou/

An interview with Pops & Bejou Games for the release of their first game; CULTivate a pattern building puzzler that has you gathering yourself a cult following.

30/01/2021

So, I am definitely a little late to the table with this "review" as Flashlights & Fireflies was originally published in 2015 and is currently out of print (yet still available in places).

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So, I am definitely a little late to the table with this "review" as Flashlights & Fireflies was originally published in 2015 and is currently out of print (yet still available in places). Designed by Jeff Johnston the game was originally published by Gamewright Games. I started considering it for o...

11/01/2021

2020 started on such a fantastic note for us. December 31 we were standing on a beach in Encinitas California with my brother and his wife watching the sunset. Content. We started the year playing Dragonwood in the sun without a care in the world. And we didn't have many cares in the world until... well you know the rest....

https://everydaymeeple.com/10-out-of-2020-part-2/

10 out of 2020 Part 2 Posted by Mitch | Uncategorized | 0 | 10 out of 2020 Part 2 by MitchUncategorized 2020 started on such a fantastic note for us. December 31 we were standing on a beach in Encinitas California with my brother and his wife watching the sunset. Content. We started the year playing...

08/01/2021

2020 has been a lot. Saying it's been a tough year would be an understatement for some folks. For those of us who got by ok, there were still stressors that you couldn't avoid. Despite the chaos, it was nice to be able to escape into a board game every now and then. So here my favorite "game getaway...

08/01/2021

10 out of 2020 ain’t bad by MitchBlog, Fives, Reviews I’m pretty sure that my top 10 games of 2020 were ones I have yet to play. I am not sure if you noticed at all but the past year was a bit, well, awkward at best. For me, it included losing my day job as a graphic designer which meant my game...

31/12/2020

2020 has been a lot. Saying it's been a tough year would be an understatement for some folks. For those of us who got by ok, there were still stressors that you couldn't avoid. Despite the chaos, it was nice to be able to escape into a board game every now and then. So here my favourite "game getaways" that I enjoyed throughout this tumultuous year....

https://everydaymeeple.com/steves-top-10-2020/

2020 has been a lot. Saying it's been a tough year would be an understatement for some folks. For those of us who got by ok, there were still stressors that you couldn't avoid. Despite the chaos, it was nice to be able to escape into a board game every now and then. So here my favorite "game getaway...

27/08/2020

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27/05/2020

I don’t know who left me in charge of this account (it was me, I did it) but man I have dropped the proverbial ball. As recently pointed out, we have been doing stuff. We have a bunch of new episodes up. We have episodes were we talk about Red Raven Games, Losing at Champions of Midgard and we have a conversation about Deck Building. Please give a listen if you are so inclined. Everyday Meeple can be found in all the usual podcast places or you can visit our wbesite at everydaymeeple.com

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24/05/2020

This week we on Everyday Meeple we celebrate the triple-threat designer, artist and publisher, Ryan Laukat of Red Raven games.
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This week we celebrate the triple-threat designer, artist and publisher, Ryan Lauket of Red Raven games. Ryan is responsible for hit games like Near and Far and Above and Below. He has a fascinating story of how he started in the board game industry as an artist, then a designer. We dig into all of....

10/05/2020

With a quick nod to Elisabeth Hargrave and the Wingspan team for winning 8 Golden Geek awards we move into a discussion of Champions of Midgard and how much fun it is losing.
https://everydaymeeple.com/losers-of-midgard/

We are here for the vikings. In particular we are here for the Champions of Midgard. A game by Ole Steiness game from 2015 that combined worker placement and combat dice into a beautiful rich thematic gem of a table top adventure. The games central mechanic has players using workers rushing about th...

27/04/2020

In this episode we try and tackle deck-building but it is such a vast topic that we really just scratch a small itch on the surface.
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In this episode we try and tackle deck-building but it is such a vast topic that we really just scratch a small itch on the surface. A brief time-line from the explosive force that was Magic: The Gathering to the emergence of a new mechanic through Donald X Vaccarino's Dominion. There is so much to....

08/04/2020

As the world settles itself into this strange time Steve and I use the magic of the interwebs to reach out to each other in from our respective game bunkers to keep the conversation going. This page will expand as we go and we will try and keep things up to date for links. Board Game Geek has a great list going of what different publishers are offering for everybody stuck at home… [ 603 more words ]
https://everydaymeeple.com/the-isolation-episodes/

As the world settles itself into this strange time Steve and I use the magic of the interwebs to reach out to each other in from our respective game bunkers to keep the conversation going. This page will expand as we go and we will try and keep things up to date for links.

22/03/2020

We joked we would call it the co-op episode but that's really a bit of a misnomer. While we do focus on the Ravensburger game Horrified, which is a beautiful family weight, gateway co-op. And we do spend a lot of time talking about the benefits of playing co-op games with kids, and what some favourites are. I would say we spend the bulk of the time talking about the game design enigma that is Prospero Hall. [ 434 more words ]
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Ep 11 – The Co-Op Episode by Mitch | Mar 22, 2020 | Everyday Meeple We joked we would call it the co-op episode but that’s really a bit of a misnomer. While we do focus on the Ravensburger game Horrified, which is a beautiful family weight, gateway co-op. And we do spend a lot of time talking ab...

16/03/2020

Available now. On this episode we spend some time on games we’ve been playing, some of our favorites then we talk about geekgroup.app and discover what some of our “worst” games are based on the bgg rankings of our collections.

What’s your “worst” game? What game in your collection has the lowest rank on BGG?

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16/03/2020

In Episode 10 we spend a lot of time chatting about some of our favourites games. I’m looking at you Raiders of the North Sea. I introduce Steve to geekgroup.app a web app that links to your BGG (Board Game Geek) account and visualizes your collection data in so many fun ways. This leads us to discover what is considered the worst games in our collections based on the BGG ranking system. [ 135 more words ]
https://everydaymeeple.com/episode-10/

In Episode 10 we spend a lot of time chatting about some of our favourites games. I’m looking at you Raiders of the North Sea. I introduce Steve to geekgroup.app a web app that links to your BGG (Board Game Geek) account and visualizes your collection data in so many fun ways. This leads us to dis...

11/03/2020

For episode 9 I get a bit excited and try and explain to Steve what I find fascinating about the world before Catan. I had something in my head about the game Acquire having been mentioned as the seed of modern Eurogames. Which really interested me. I started looking into and did not find too much at first then came across the book "Eurogames: The Design, Culture and Play of Modern European Board Games" by Stewart Woods and it is crammed full of history. [ 269 more words ]
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For episode 9 I get a bit excited about the book Eurogames by Stewart Woods and try and explain to Steve what I find facinstating about the world before Catan.

03/03/2020

When people gather around the table, unfold their cardboard and break out their wooden bits, they do so for many different reasons. Some want to strategize like military generals in an effort to troun

03/03/2020

Steve and I got together again to talk about board games. Surprised? This time we decided to get in on the house-rules conversation. Naturally, you can't talk about house-rules without the nod to the

03/03/2020

After a bit of a hiatus, we return with a rambling conversation about Theme and the language we use to describe board games. We talk about how the word "theme" is often used as a catch-all term for bo

03/03/2020

Halloween has come and gone and we spend this episode talking about a few Lovecraft themed board games we like and discuss our first play of Mountains of Madness.

03/03/2020

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I reached out to Jon Merchant, the designer behind "Squire for Hire" the microgame we recently micro-reviewed and asked if he would mind a few questions.

03/03/2020

For episode 4 we venture into the on-going conversation about "gateway" games. What were ours, what are "the big three", what are some new ones and seriously, what does that even mean really?

03/03/2020

Without preparing and without much sleep Steve and I decided to get a podcast together while Dave is home visiting in Newfoundland. WE ramble on about a bunch of stuff. Talisman, Dad Joke Face-Off, 7-