Hello and Welcome to Engage!: A Family Gaming Podcast! This is episode 130. This week we are talking board games and this week Stephen and Rob are joined by the team at Runaway Parade games to talk about Fire Tower!
Host:
Stephen Duetzmann @EFGaming
Co-Host:
Rob Kalajian, A Pawn’s Perspective
Around the Horn
The Legend of Korra: Pro Bending Arena
Qwirkle Cubes
Sumer
Topic
Fire Tower is a area control and hand management fire fighting board game that is currently live on Kickstarter. It was designed and is being published by Runaway Parade Games. They took the time to answer some questions for us about their campaign.… Read more.
Most fire fighting games are cooperative, but in the game Fire Tower, you compete with other players to protect your fire tower from the fire and spread the fire to your opponent’s tower. There are components of hand management and area control incorporated into the game.… Read more.
Restoration Games has been in business for about a year now. Their mission is to find old games that had a spark of greatness, but were held back by the state of the board game industry. They had announced three projects so far, until Gen Con 2017.… Read more.
The Boston Festival of Independent Games is nearly upon us. Engaged Family Gaming will be on the scene with a big team and will be taking in as many games as we can. We’ve always enjoyed their Tabletop Showcase and this year doesn’t look to be any different.… Read more.
Board games are going through a renaissance right now. It may appear to the casual observer that hobbyist games are a new phenomenon, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. Talented designers have been designing and publishing games that can stand up to some of the best the modern board gaming world has to offer for decades.… Read more.
Nintendo may as well have set the internet on fire overnight with the news that came out of their quarterly earnings call. They revealed a wealth of information that sowed more than a little bit of chaos onto the web this morning.… Read more.
Fireside Games
1 – 6 Players
Ages 10+
60+ Minutes
COOPERATIVE
Surrounded by a lush and dangerous forest lies your keep. A castle like no other (since it is yours) is the envy of all. Especially the besieging armies of Goblins, Trolls and Orcs!… Read more.
This year at the NY Toy Fair there will be a lot to see. Manufacturers showing off the newest innovations in toys and games… We’re excited to see what they have to show us, and one of our favorite publishers, Gamewright, has given a sneak peek!… Read more.
Angry Birds Transformers is a great fusion of the Angry Birds franchise and the golden era of Transformers
. It also makes an awesome run and gun game. The game play is very different from the other Angry Birds games in the series and that is a good thing.… Read more.