#162 - The Dice-Head Special
Shut Up & Sit Down
Shut Up & Sit Down
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🗓️ 19 November 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, Ava is joined by Matt for a natter about two recent games - both of which feature DICE and HEADS. You can see the whole creative process unfolding! Matt has checked out the Cuphead game, and Ava is bang-on-time for Halloween with the gorgeous Die of the Dead.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the very 160 second episode of the Shut Up and Sit Down podcast. |
| 0:16.4 | The podcast all about board games, board games, and the people love board games. |
| 0:20.7 | My name is Matleys and I'm joined by Aval Fox Fort. |
| 0:23.1 | I'm going to be talking a bit later on about Cuphead, a fast dice rolling game, which |
| 0:27.9 | is based on a video game and it's just as hard and horrible and you might love it but |
| 0:31.8 | you might hate it. |
| 0:33.1 | And Ava is going to be talking about the dice of the dead. |
| 0:38.0 | Yeah, which is all dice and coffins and shaky, shaky dice, dice, coffee, coffee. |
| 0:42.4 | Shaky, shaky dice, dice, dice, dice, coffee. |
| 0:44.2 | It couldn't have said it clearer myself. |
| 0:46.5 | This is of course the dice head special. |
| 0:49.2 | Two games, both of which we should dice and heads very clever, very, very clever. |
| 0:56.3 | So that further ado, let's do a nice little jingly bit and do the podcast. |
| 1:03.8 | So dead on time for Halloween, I think I found time to play a little bit of dice of the |
| 1:11.4 | dead by James Allen and Mark Stockton Pitt. |
| 1:14.9 | This is a dice heavy game with Mexican Day of the Dead's Theming, which has been consulted |
| 1:20.5 | on by a cultural consultant, which means that the people have done at least some of their |
| 1:24.0 | legwork, hopefully, and it means that the game is pretty beautiful. |
| 1:28.3 | It is literally about rolling the bones. |
| 1:31.0 | I mean, it's not. |
| 1:32.0 | It's about rolling dice and it's about they are souls rather than bones and you are rolling |
| 1:37.7 | these colorful dice in ludicrously beautiful coffin shaped things. |
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