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Space Cats Peace Turtles

364: Root Expansion Preview and Swarm First-Look!

Space Cats Peace Turtles

Matt Martens and Hunter Donaldson

Games, Leisure:games, Hobbies, Leisure

4.9663 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

We're back with more of our Gen-Con coverage from this year. We've got two excellent conversations with wonderful people talking about new games. First up we have Nick Brachmann talking about his new game Swarm! It's heavily inspired by Pikmin and we're very excited for the potential future fun. Following that we have the thing you really waiting for, our first conversation about the new Root Expansion with Joshua Yearsley. It sounds wild y'all.   Come see Hunter perform in Portland! https://linktr.ee/HunterDonaldson   Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com Additional Music and Sounds by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/ To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

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0:00.0

This is Space Cats Peace Turtles, the unofficial podcast for Fantasy Flights Twilight Imperium.

0:10.9

Episode 364.

0:12.3

First look.

0:13.1

New Root Expansion.

0:14.7

New Leader Games Project.

0:16.3

Music by Ben Prunty, featuring Matt Martins.

0:19.4

And Hunter Donaldson.

0:56.0

Hey there, Space Cats Peace Turtles Nation. It's me, it's Hunter. I'm here alone by myself. This is a solo edit. I am finally back home from GenCon and some other trips that I went on. And it's been a wonderful summer and an interesting time. I just wanted to introduce to you the idea of what today's episode is before we get into it so that you're not confused.

1:03.0

Because we kind of just get right into the discussions here.

1:06.0

We sat down with Nick Brockman and with old Joshie Yearsley of Leader Games both to sit down and

1:13.8

talk to them about two of their new upcoming products. The first one is with Nick Brockman

1:20.0

who is working on a game that he calls Swarm that has a bug theme that's very interesting.

1:25.8

And then the second discussion is with Josh,

1:28.4

and we're talking about that newfangled Root expansion, very, very exciting expansion that I was

1:35.3

able to actually do the demo of, really, really enjoyed it, and I'm really excited about where

1:40.0

route is going to be going. And then, of course, at at the end we will meet back here for a solo

1:45.5

rundown. So I hope that sounds good. I hope you've enjoyed our Gen Con coverage this year. I hope

1:51.4

you liked the live show from last week. But yes, without further ado, let's go straight to the

1:58.2

Leader Games room at GenCon to have a discussion with two of our friends.

2:10.1

We're here with Nicholas Brockman.

2:11.8

It's just our new friend.

2:13.5

We're here.

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