Hello and welcome to the very 75th episode of the Shut Up and Sit Down podcast.

The podcast all about board games, board games, and the people who love them.

I'm Matt Lees, joined by Quentin Smith and Paul Dean, live in one room.

Together facing each other in a circle of...

Three people.

Happiness, I was going to say.

Three people happy.

That's why also it sounds a bit echoy because we're in a hotel room

and we've just finished a week at GDC,

which is the game developers conference to do with video games and board games increasingly.

But we run an area where people

can just drop by and play board games, which is a fun way for us to take a lot of the games

that we've played and loved throughout the last year, put them in front of lots of people,

and broadly work out whether or not we are right about anything. It's a bit intimidating,

isn't it? It is. You know, you have this moment where all these

great game design minds come to the board game lounge and say, what's the best thing you got? And you're

like, well, I hope this is still good because I reviewed it six months ago. Yeah, and people

play them. And then most of the time, they go, yeah, I really like this. And we're doing. Yep, it's a relief. So today we're going to be talking about a few games that we've been playing outside of GDC.

We're going to be talking about Star Wars Legion.

Puzzle, Garmie, Age of Steam, a new prototype game for Empires.

And, yeah, talking a bit about what games stood the test of many game developers playing them and were still good.

Or even just, yeah, some experiences I've had. There have been a few games this week. I've played a lot.

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