The Spiel - MP3 Version

Rocco Privetera discusses Ninja Dice, a press your luck dice game with an innovative twist. How and where your dice land on the table is as important as what is rolled.

Scott D'Agostino discusses Star Trek: Attack Wing, a tactical miniatures game. Take command of Federation, Klingon, or Romulan fleets with famous captains and characters from the series to explore and battle through space.

Elad Goldsteen talks about Alliances, a Bridge-inspired trick taking card game where your tricks serve a greater goal: to take over the world.

Tom McLean discusses the development and inspiration behind Story War, a freeform storytelling battle game in the tradition of Apples to Apples.

Duncan Davis talks about the inspiration behind In The City: Origins. Players draft citizen cards in order to seize the crown and save the city.

Designer Geoff Engelstein discusses the challenges and inspirations behind converting the original fully co-op Space Cadets board game into a frenetic team based dice game.

Eon Altar is a lovechild of the cardboard and digital worlds: it's a tabletop video game. Edward Douglas runs us through the basics of this ambitious co-op fantasy rpg that uses interactive screens in place of traditional boards and dice.

Right Games is a board game publisher based in Russia. From strategy to children to party and dexterity games, Ivan and Elena discuss four titles: Evolution, The Jam, Zombie, and Japanese Castle.

Kevin Brusky gives us the scoop on Rarrr!, a card game about giant monster battles. The twist? You must name your monster in order to give it superpowers.

Designer and former military officer Konstantin Krivenko talks about The Art of Tactic, an innovative system of wargame rules adaptable to many different historical periods, including Hot War: Battle for Oil an alternate history game set in the 1990s.

Ray Wehrs introduces Roll For It, a family friendly dice placing game. We also learn about the latest expansion for Tsuro of the Seas.

The Flying Frog team talks about expansions for cliffhangers and zombies PLUS two brand new titles: Dark Gothic and Shadows of Brimstone.

Chris Darden gives us the story behind Dungeon Roll, a press your luck dungeon delving dice game. We also learn about Geekway to the West, a regional game convention in St. Louis.

Ted Alspach gives us the lowdown on all things Suburbia. First we learn about the iOS version. Then we discuss the first expansion to the board game: Suburbia Inc

Mark Kaufman introduces Relic Runners, a route building game where players delve deep into temples to find sets of valuable treasures. The game also asks players to take on a famous math problem: the traveling salesman's dilemma.

Kevin G. Nunn and Christopher Badell unveil their plans for Sentinel Tactics, a skirmish level miniatures game using heroes and villains from Sentinels of the Multiverse. We also learn about the first expansion to Kevin's game Rolling Freight.

Colby Dauch talks about developing Siege of Columbia, the BioShock Infinite board game, in tandem with the video game. We also talk about Heart of Glorm, the new expansion for Mice and Mystics and get a sneak peek at some upcoming projects.

Max Michael discusses Credit Mobilier, a train game that plays in an hour or less. We also get a sneak peek a 3 upcoming titles including Tammany Hall: The Card Game.

Todd Rowland talks about Trains and AEG's growing connection to many different game designers from Japan.

Matthieu Bonin discusses a full slate of games from French publisher Iello including The Three Little Pigs, The Phantom Society, Guardians' Chronicle, Heroes of Normandie, Steam Park, and Zombie 15.

John Sizemore introduces Mars Needs Mechanics. Engineers build steampunk gizmos competing for a spot on the first rocket to Mars.

Designer Michael Iachini talks about Chaos and Alchemy, a dice driven card game where players complete experiments to turn base metal into gold.

Designer Brian Mayer talks about the inspiration and challenges involved in creating a cooperative game that gives players key roles in the Abolitionist movement and sets them the task of ending slavery.

Paul Imboden and Randy Field discuss Quicksilver, a steampunk race game which puts players in control of mighty blimps battling their way through mines, mountains and clouds to victory.

Jim McMahon talks about his new job organizing the thousands of games in the Hasbro Game Archive.