Can you win the awesomeness?
Back in March I hit the 200 follower plateau on Twitter. At the time I gave away a copy of Love Letter. This time around, since there are twice as many of you, I’m making the prize that much better! This time I’m going to give away a copy of Smash Up.
Why Smash Up? Because all you Twitter Followers are a smash up of awesomeness with people who write blogs, manage Ludological Portfolios (I’m looking at you, Brian!), design games, playtest games, love games, and even some of you who succumb to the desires of the barley!
Here’s how it works. All you have to do to qualify for the prize is this:
In the game each player has a smash up of two different factions. So one player may be Wizard Ninjas while another player is Robot Dinosaurs. So tweet me your best smash up that’s related to beer and board games! The more creative and interesting, the better chance you have to win!
I’ll choose a winner tonight at 8pm Central. So make sure you have your tweet in before then!
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UPDATE (8:30pm): The winner has been chosen! Congrats to Eric Leath of Games & Grub for the Smash Up deck that made me laugh and cringe at the same time:
https://twitter.com/GamesAndGrub/status/373176791474507776
And two honorable mentions go to J. Alex Kevern for his nice, rhyming Smash Up Deck and to Todd Edwards for this Specific Gravity Paralysis:
https://twitter.com/Wininoid/status/373210640887709696
Unforunately only Eric wins the prize. Thanks to everyone who participated. I hope you enjoyed the giveaway contest. My next giveaway will be when I hit 600 followers. I’m hoping that giveaway will be a prototype of Scoville!
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And just for fun I made my own base:
Not very playable, but it helps me celebrate 400+ awesome followers!
Aug 19
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Today will be a different style of Monday Brews. Instead of listing the beer and board games I enjoyed I am posting a gallery of some of the things I played or saw at GenCon. Don’t worry. This is a family friendly gallery, which means I didn’t take any pictures of men or women that […]
This is more of a side note than anything. But Boards & Barley is now on Tumblr!
What does that mean? It means I now have a good way to have all my photos in one place. And since I’ll be sharing a lot of photos from GenCon it seemed like a good time to start the Tumblr feed.
If you don’t want Tumblr, no worries! I have it synced to my Twitter account and so the Tumblr posts will also be tweeted there. So if you already follow me on Twitter, you’re already set up to see the awesomeness!
Yes! GenCon is upon us!
I’m giddy. I’m like a kid in a candy store. Actually, I’m like an adult in a board game store. A really, really big board game store. And I have the freedom to purchase whatever I want. “Psyched” falls far short of how excited I am!
I was planning on writing a nice long article about all the awesome things I’m planning on doing, and all the awesome games I’m planning on playing, and all the awesome people I’m planning on meeting. But I’m so excited I just can’t focus enough to put all the words together.
So instead, here are links to the games I’m interested in checking out:
There are also a ton of unpublished games that I’m looking forward to playing. You can find a good list of unpubbed games that are available for demoing on Grant Rodiek’s Hyperbole Games GenCon 2013 Prototype Preview.
I would also like to mention all the awesome people I’m going to meet, but I know I’d leave some people off the list by mistake. There are a ton of you out there! I can’t wait to meet you in person!
Finally, if you want to demo Scoville feel free to tweet at me (@EdPMarriott) during the convention and we’ll figure something out. The after hours open gaming area is probably the best bet. On Friday and Saturday I’ll likely be wearing these shirts:
Just follow the pepper for your chance to play Scoville!
SWAG! Want one???
And my GenCon contribution to society is that I will be giving away SWAG buttons to the people who want to demo Scoville! I am grateful to Ken Grazier (@demo_ken) of Geek-Craft.com for making the buttons for me! I’m very much looking forward to handing them out!
So if you’re going to be at GenCon, let’s get together for some boards or barley! I’m looking forward to meeting so many awesome people and making so many awesome memories.
TMG Dragon loves peppers!
Ladies and Gentlemen,
It is with great pleasure that I can finally announce that Tasty Minstrel Games has contracted my game Scoville for publication!
As you can imagine, I am very excited about this. Scoville will be my first published game and I’m grateful for TMG taking me into their fold.
So who is Tasty Minstrel Games? TMG is a board game publishing company run by Michael Mindes. On board with Michael is game designer/developer Seth Jaffee. You can check out Seth’s blog at sedjtroll.blogspot.com.
TMG has been putting out very quality games that contain beautiful artwork and are exceptionally enjoyable. Some of their recent awesomeness includes these games:
In Dungeon Roll the player’s goal is to collect the most experience points by defeating monsters, battling the dragon, and amassing treasure. Each player selects a Hero avatar, such as a Mercenary, Half-Goblin, or Enchantress, which provides them with unique powers. Then players take turns being the Adventurer, who boldly enters the dungeon seeking glory.
Belfort is a worker placement game with area majority scoring in each district as well as for each type of worker. Buildings give you influence in the districts as well as income, but taxes increase based on your score so the winning players will have to pay more than those behind! Manage your resources and gold well, choose your buildings wisely, and help build the city of Belfort!
The process is simple: Factories produce the goods (machinery, textiles, chemicals, food, and luxuries) that are coveted by the city folk. Airships – forbidden from landing in the cities but capable of carrying cargo over great distances – must be used to gather those goods and deliver them to depots along the rail network. Trains then haul the goods to the cities that want them, earning cash for the competitor who gets there first! Will you be the “King of Air and Steam?”
Also in the TMG queue and coming to stores soon is the new Stefan Feld game Rialto, the game about Florentine Medici-ness called Il Vecchio, as well as the expansion for Village (the 2012 Kennerspiel des Jahres) known as Village Inn.
But don’t forget about their other highly rated game, Eminent Domain, by Seth Jaffee. You can learn more on the BoardGameGeek page.
I will be keeping you all updated as Scoville progresses toward publication. Thanks for all of your interest. If there are any questions you have regarding Scoville, please post them as a comment below and I’ll be happy to reply!
Thanks! These are exciting times for me and for Tasty Minstrel Games! Make sure you visit them at GenCon at booth 459:
This booth will be filled with awesomeness!
Boards and Barley 