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
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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.
The “8 and up” game category opens up a whole new realm of gaming options. Game become less “kid games” and more “kid-friendly”. At this age, reading cards is no longer a concern and the kids can handle more strategy and steps per turn. The number of games at this age level absolutely explodes and there is no way to include everything. This list includes some of our favorites, but there is so much more to play!
Timeline is a competitive game for two to eight players that takes about 15 minutes to play.… Read more.
Finding games that are the right fit for children aged 5 to 7 can be challenging. As they move into school age they can begin handling more in games. Young children who are just learning to read or are beginning readers are often not ready for games with lots of reading or complex turns. … Read more.
by: Jonathan Goosetree of InkedGaming.com
Fortnite has taken the gaming world by storm. Gamers of all types are joining the craze as it is playable on PC, Mac, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Android, and iOS. With often 300,00 viewers or more on Twitch, Fortnite is currently the most popular title in gaming.… 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.