D6G Ep 96: Ares Project Interview & Eclipse Detailed Review

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4.8 • 613 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2012

⏱️ 234 minutes

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Summary

Geoff Engelstein joins the D6G crew as our third chair. Geoff has contributed the GameTek segment to The Dice Tower podcast for five years, and co-hosts the new podcast Ludology, with Ryan Sturm. Along with his son Brian he designed The Ares Project, released in 2011 by Z-Man Games. Geoff has been involved in the gaming hobby for close to 40 years, and considers himself an 'omni-gamer', enjoying wargames, euros, RPGs, miniatures, and everything game-related. This episode we check out the new 4x space conquest game Eclipse. What does it bring new to the genre? But up first: We ask Geoff to round up his son Brian and we discuss all the trials, challenges and rewards of designinga game. What did it take to get their game "The Ares Project" to store shelves? All that and our other not-too-horrible segments including: - The Hollywood Minute - Total Fan Girl - Do You Ever Notice - & More If you'd like to discuss the show with us and others in our forum thread: . The following fine organizations help make this show possible: , on behalf of friendly, professional gaming stores everywhere. , latest gaming news, great stores, & more! ==Quick Reference== The News: 1 hr 4 min Ares Project Interview: 1 hr 10 min Hollywood Minute: 2 hr 2 min Total Fan Girl: 2 hr 11 min Eclipse Review: 2 hr 16 min Links Discussed in the show: Raef's Blog: Craig's Blog: Russ's Blog: Total Fan Girl Blog: Pulp Gamer Network:

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0:00.0	This is the D6 generation with your hosts, Craig D-Lant.
0:16.2	If you're getting any conversation, it's not charity.
0:19.7	Russ Wakeland, you put me on a a boat with freaking dragons attacking me and whatnot?
0:24.2	Now we're talking.
0:25.9	With Jeff Engelstein in the third chair.
0:30.3	Today I'd like to talk about colonoscopies and horde games.
0:33.7	With contributions from Total Fan Girl.
0:37.5	Vampires do not sparkle.
0:39.3	And are loyal listening.
0:41.0	One game is very like another to the D6G reviews it, brother.
0:45.6	Welcome to another edition of Rapid Fire,
0:47.9	the round-able discussion of all things gaming,
0:49.5	coming in with the speed of a swiftly evolving Xenos species
0:52.2	reawakened by heedless human terraforming.
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1:06.2	I'm Geekley McNutigan, your host today, as always.
1:08.7	Our panelists are Russ Forby for the Brain Flex, Wakeland.
1:11.8	What?
1:12.0	And the game design duo of Jeff and Brian, the family that designs together, taglines together, Engelstein.
1:18.5	Let's begin.
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