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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...

(Apologies for my mic quality in this one. Darn Zoom. I did the best I could to recover the audio). I interview Cole Medeiros, designer of Stardew Valley, the Board Game, about designing a different style of cooperative game. We discuss realizing the open world, delightful spirit of the video game in cardboard in a way that satisfies the hobby gamer instinct for control and agency. Stardew Valley:...

Steve & Kim sit down and compare some recent upcoming open world adventure games. Specifically Arydia, Isofarian Guard, and Skyrim. This was a previously recorded live episode of Co-op Chat on the One Stop Co-op Shop Streamed YouTube channel. YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrOtGhui_jdLdoQNI7PU4Pg YouTube(streamed) - https://www.youtube.com/c/OneStopCoopShopStreamed Podcast - https://so...

This week Peter and Bairnt talk about Kingdom Death Monster and have a design discussion about dungeon crawlers, adventure games and boss battlers. 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 Merch: one-stop-co-op-sh...

Constitutional lawyer and avid gamer Raha Wala joins the show to discuss how we speak with one another on the internet. I continue to be optimistic that we can improve the quality of our online discussions about games. So, in this show, we define difficult terms like censorship, cancellation, and criticism so that we can focus on clear meanings and have less of a chance of misinterpreting one anot...

Kevin Erskine from the 1 Player Guild on BGG has compiled, for the 8th straight year, Top 200 People's Choice Solo Games for 2021. In this episode, we discuss debuts, trends, and noteworthy games from 50-1. The List: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/291071/2021-peoples-choice-top-200-solo-games-200-1 Joining Kevin, Liz Davidson from Beyond Solitaire, and Jason on the panel: Mark Dainty from Not...

Kevin Erskine from the 1 Player Guild on BGG has compiled, for the 8th straight year, Top 200 People's Choice Solo Games for 2021. In this episode, we discuss debuts, trends, and noteworthy games from 100-51. The List: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/291071/2021-peoples-choice-top-200-solo-games-200-51 Joining Kevin, Liz Davidson from Beyond Solitaire, and Jason on the panel: Mark Dainty from N...

This week Peter & Mike try something new. We compare older games to new, similar games, and see which one comes out on top. This episode compares Similo to Codenames Duet; Crime Zoom to Chronicles of Crime; and The Crew: Mission Deep Sea to The Crew. With an interesting after show look at Dune House Secrets. YouTube - www.youtube.com/channel/UCrOtGhui_jdLdoQNI7PU4Pg YouTube(streamed) - www.youtube...

Kevin Erskine from the 1 Player Guild on BGG has compiled, for the 8th straight year, Top 200 People's Choice Solo Games for 2021. In this episode, we discuss debuts, trends, and noteworthy games from 200-101. The List: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/291071/2021-peoples-choice-top-200-solo-games-200-101 Joining Kevin, Liz Davidson from Beyond Solitaire, and Jason on the panel: Mark Dainty from...

Chris Rowlands, senior game designer at Prospero Hall and Funko Games, stops by the show to discuss the process of making officially licenses games that are actually good! 0:00 Intro to Prospero Hall and Funko Games 7:30 The Mission and Process at Prospero Hall 25:11 Horrified 30:37 Back to the Future: Back in Time 42:47 The Goonies: Never Say Die 56:47 Looking Forward ------- Shelf Stories YouTub...

Jason was invited to the Portal Games Vlog by Ignacy Trzewiecek to talk about growing online communities and getting more attention for the things we do. In particular, we discuss the virtues and vices of using clickbait video titles, defined here as any title meant to elicit negative emotions. Ignacy and I disagree in many respects, but it was nice to have a fruitful, intelligent conversation. __...

This week Peter and Mike talk about The Loop and have a design discussion about alpha player and Pandemic like games. 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 Merch: https://one-stop-co-op-shop.creator-spring.com/...

One of the biggest stories in our hobby this year has been the formation and recognition of the United Paizo Workers at Paizo, the RPG game company. Managing Designer Mark Seifter joins the show to tell the story from the workers' perspective, while Carlos Cabrera speaks about the essential role played by freelancers connected with Paizo. 3:41 Introducing Paizo 13:39 Issues that Led to Unionizatio...

Rob Daviau and Matt Leacock continue the conversation about Pandemic Legacy. In this episode we chat about all three Legacy games, focusing on design and storytelling challenges. FULL SPOILERS will be discussed for Pandemic Season One and Two. 0:00 Intro 2:57 - Season One 18:24 - Season Two 30:16 - Season Zero 48:45 - Looking Forward Shelf Stories YouTube (with video of this recording) - www.youtu...

Rob Daviau and Matt Leacock, the design minds behind many of Jason's favorite gaming experiences of all time, stop by the show to chat about Pandemic Legacy and the evolution of the legacy genre. This episode is Part One of Two. Shelf Stories YouTube (with video of this recording) - www.youtube.com/shelfstories __________________________________ YouTube - www.youtube.com/onestopcoopshop www.youtub...

This week Peter & Jerry talk about our Origins 2021 experience. We talk about a lot of games this episode. 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 - o...