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Frank West, the founder of City of Games and designer of Isle of Cats, joins to discuss cultivating enthusiastic, positive communities that buy games, have fun, and manages itself against negative elements. We get into a lot of facets of this one, particularly the idea of the Five, Five, and Ninety Percent. Five percent of communities are superfans, five percent are utter jerks, and ninety are peo...

This week Peter & Jason talk about Imperium: Classics and card games. _________________________ Imperium Player Aid: https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/223793/player-aid-imperium-classics _________________________ YouTube - www.youtube.com/channel/UCrOtGhui_jdLdoQNI7PU4Pg YouTube(streamed) - www.youtube.com/channel/UCPCIkULbgzMEW612cSdUX7Q TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@one_stop_coop_shop Podcas...

Danni Loe from Pandasaurus Games and James Hudson from Druid City Games rejoin the show to talk about the benefits and increasing drawbacks of producing games through Kickstarter. KS provides upfront cash and immediate feedback from fans, which is great. It also has huge issue with lack of moderation, the move to blockchain, and overall unresponsiveness to the very creators it says it wants to hig...

Danni Loe from Pandasaurus Games and James Hudson from Druid City Games stop by to chat about the shipping crisis of 2021 and its reverberations for gamers today - delayed games, higher prices, and what companies are doing behind the scenes to respond. Spoiler alert - its a lot! Shelf Stories YouTube (with video of this recording) - www.youtube.com/shelfstories __________________________________ Y...

This week Peter & Mike talk about Unsettled and discuss exploration in games. _________________________ YouTube - www.youtube.com/channel/UCrOtGhui_jdLdoQNI7PU4Pg YouTube(streamed) - www.youtube.com/channel/UCPCIkULbgzMEW612cSdUX7Q TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@one_stop_coop_shop Podcast - @onestopcoopshop Discord - discord.gg/p4jX8AF Facebook - www.facebook.com/onestopcoopshop Merch: https://o...

Greg Loring-Albright, co-designer of Bloc by Bloc Uprising, stops by the show to share about this new, redesigned version of the game. This is a companion piece to the playthrough video with designer commentary for Bloc by Bloc on the One Stop Coop Shop YouTube channel. In this conversation, Greg shares a big picture view of the game's theme and how it serves as an expression of his own personal a...

Liz and Jason spoke about colonization games offering a false sense of comfort in the last episode. In this one, we talk about the line between healthy misbehavior in games (which, for us, is a pretty big space) and unhealthy (games that evoke real world oppressions that are felt by people in the world today). Shelf Stories YouTube (with video of this recording) - www.youtube.com/shelfstories ____...

This week Peter & Paul Grogan (Gaming Rules) talk about Ark Nova and discuss rulebooks. _________________________ YouTube - www.youtube.com/channel/UCrOtGhui_jdLdoQNI7PU4Pg YouTube(streamed) - www.youtube.com/channel/UCPCIkULbgzMEW612cSdUX7Q TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@one_stop_coop_shop Podcast - @onestopcoopshop Discord - discord.gg/p4jX8AF Facebook - www.facebook.com/onestopcoopshop Merch:...

Liz Davidson and Jason get together once again to discuss history in games in two parts. In this first part, we discuss Euro games and other mass market games that leverage history for attention, sales, and audience comfort. In seeking audience comfort, those games lie to our faces. We analyze examples of these games - Puerto Rico, AuZtralia, Hadrian's Wall, and more. We also chart some ways forwa...

Steve & Kim review the cooperative mode for Terraforming Mars Ares Expedition in two parts. The first part is the usual top 5 format with the later section a more indepth look at the rest of the game. Hope you enjoy! YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrOtGhui_jdLdoQNI7PU4Pg YouTube(streamed) - https://www.youtube.com/c/OneStopCoopShopStreamed Podcast - https://soundcloud.com/onestopcoopsh...

Jona Minotto, the One Pip Wonder, joins the show to share what she has learned about sustainability and eco-friendliness in board games. We have bad news for gamers, especially those of us who have gotten used to lots of pretty plastic chrome in our games. However, we end on a hopeful note and point to some ways forward. One Pip Wonder YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHf-oGRKOC6...

This week Mike & Collin talk about what they have been playing, and review Roll Player Adventures. _________________________ YouTube - www.youtube.com/channel/UCrOtGhui_jdLdoQNI7PU4Pg YouTube(streamed) - www.youtube.com/channel/UCPCIkULbgzMEW612cSdUX7Q TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@one_stop_coop_shop Podcast - @onestopcoopshop Discord - discord.gg/p4jX8AF Facebook - www.facebook.com/onestopcoop...

Matthew Dunstan, designer of the Adventure series and many other games, provides a frank, transparent discussion about what he makes as a game designer, what it takes to go full-time, how to arrange royalties, and a whole host of other related subjects. 0:00 Intro 1:52 The Games - Adventure, Professor Evil, Echoes, and More 7:19 Life of a Game Designer 22:00 Overall Finances of a Game Designer 34:...

Andrew Fischer hops back on the show to give us an update on Earthborne Rangers development and iteration. We get wonky in this one! Shelf Stories YouTube (with video of this recording) - www.youtube.com/shelfstories __________________________________ YouTube - www.youtube.com/onestopcoopshop www.youtube.com/channel/UCPCIkULbgzMEW612cSdUX7Q Discord - discord.gg/p4jX8AF Facebook - www.facebook.com/...

Steve & Bairnt meet on Co-op Chat to discuss some of the exciting upcoming games planned to release in 2022. YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrOtGhui_jdLdoQNI7PU4Pg YouTube(streamed) - https://www.youtube.com/c/OneStopCoopShopStreamed Podcast - https://soundcloud.com/onestopcoopshop Discord - https://discord.gg/p4jX8AF Facebook - www.facebook.com/onestopcoopshop Donate to One Stop Co-op...

This week Peter & Mike go through all 20 games we reviewed this year and rank them from worst to best. YouTube - www.youtube.com/channel/UCrOtGhui_jdLdoQNI7PU4Pg YouTube(streamed) - www.youtube.com/channel/UCPCIkULbgzMEW612cSdUX7Q Podcast - @onestopcoopshop Discord - discord.gg/p4jX8AF Facebook - www.facebook.com/onestopcoopshop Donate to One Stop Co-op Shop - www.patreon.com/onestop Email - onest...

Jeremy Howard of Jambalaya Plays Games and Man Vs. Meeple shares the games he is looking forward to in 2022! Shelf Stories YouTube (with video of this recording) - www.youtube.com/shelfstories __________________________________ YouTube - www.youtube.com/onestopcoopshop www.youtube.com/channel/UCPCIkULbgzMEW612cSdUX7Q Discord - discord.gg/p4jX8AF Facebook - www.facebook.com/onestopcoopshop Donate t...

Jeremy Howard of Man Vs. Meeple joins me so we can give our Top Five Solo Games for 2021! ----- 5:54 Solo Year in Review 8:58 Jeremy's #5 12:08 Jason's #5 14:45 Jeremy's #4 19:58 Jason's #4 23:39 Jeremy's #3 28:22 Jason's #3 31:36 Jeremy's #2 38:15 Jason's #2 42:26 Jeremy's #1 49:13 Jason's #1 52:06 Outro Shelf Stories YouTube (with video of this recording) - www.youtube.com/shelfstories _________...

Steve, Kim, Colin, and Bairnt meet live to discuss 2021 and talk about the best and worst games of the year. YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrOtGhui_jdLdoQNI7PU4Pg YouTube(streamed) - https://www.youtube.com/c/OneStopCoopShopStreamed Podcast - https://soundcloud.com/onestopcoopshop Discord - https://discord.gg/p4jX8AF Facebook - www.facebook.com/onestopcoopshop Donate to One Stop Co-op...

This week Peter & Mike talk about our PaxU 2021 experience. Hear about all the games we saw and played and find out our games of the show. YouTube - www.youtube.com/channel/UCrOtGhui_jdLdoQNI7PU4Pg YouTube(streamed) - www.youtube.com/channel/UCPCIkULbgzMEW612cSdUX7Q Podcast - @onestopcoopshop Discord - discord.gg/p4jX8AF Facebook - www.facebook.com/onestopcoopshop Donate to One Stop Co-op Shop - w...

Jason plays a bit of "devil's advocate" in this episode. In response to my discussion with Geoff Engelstein which held a whole lot of skepticism, a few watchers reached out to me to defend their purchases of NFTs and participation in that community. For the sake of a more well rounded discussion, I try to recreate their counter arguments as far as I can. ----- 0:00 Intro 4:41 What is Value? 5:46 M...

Jason is taking a bit of a break from making fresh content for a few weeks as we enter the holiday season. In the meantime, please enjoy this guest appearance that Jason did on another show! Jason had the privilege of presenting Top Ten Card Games with Richard Ham, aka Rahdo. As usual, conversations with Rahdo are pretty long! However, we cover a lot of solo and cooperative games, among a few othe...

Jason sits down with Geoff Engelstein to discuss blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and NFTs. We do our best to talk about what's going on in layman's terms that gamers can understand. The short message is that blockchains and cryptocurrencies have a lot of potential, but that NFTs in their current forms are grifts that prey on the confusion surrounding them. 0:00 Intro 2:26 Geoff talks Super Skill Pin...

This week Peter and Mike talk about Final Girl and have a design discussion about adding a board to games. _________________________ The Royal Fortune (Keyforge Adventure) Rules and PnP files: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1o8_iLXtWiPT1aMbshkOv6EcxYsGadBSy?usp=sharing TTS Mod: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2660163604 _________________________ YouTube - www.youtube...

With Liz Davidson's kind permission, we are replaying this conversation from her podcast, Beyond Solitaire. She spoke with the designer of Obsession, Dan Hallagan, all about his game Obsession, focusing on its wonderful historical theme of Victorian England. YouTube - www.youtube.com/onestopcoopshop www.youtube.com/channel/UCPCIkULbgzMEW612cSdUX7Q Discord - discord.gg/p4jX8AF Facebook - www.facebo...