Episode #227: Themes that can make or break a game
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2011
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
In this show, we talk about Belfort, King of Tokyo, Clippers, and Eaten by Zombies. Mark talks about taking kids to conventions, and Geoff discusses gamers helping real world problems. We go over news, and talk about themes that can make or break a game for us.
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| 0:00.0 | Hosting for the dice tower is generously provided by Fun Again Games, the world's best game source, online at fun again.com. |
| 0:08.0 | Thanks for your support. The Dice Tower, episode 227. Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games, but especially the people who play them. |
| 0:39.0 | In this episode, the Chief gives us a kick-starter update. |
| 0:43.0 | Jeff starts folding proteins, and Mark revisits the topic of kids at conventions. |
| 0:49.0 | Plus, Tom gives us an undead game review. |
| 0:52.0 | We run through some recent game news and we reveal our must-buy game |
| 0:56.8 | themes. This episode is sponsored by Bezier Games, makers of Tybreaker. Never rejoice in your shared victory again. Find out more at |
| 1:07.0 | Bezier Games.com. I'm Eric Sommerer and here's your host, The man with his own theme song. |
| 1:13.0 | It's Tom Vassal. |
| 1:15.0 | You have to admit that's catchy. |
| 1:18.0 | Oh yeah, Tom Vassal. |
| 1:20.0 | You know, the kids at school, I played the video for a few of them and now they sing it all the time so it's actually getting a little annoying |
| 1:29.0 | It's been stuck in my head for the past 24 hours or so at least. |
| 1:33.2 | Well, I want to thank Eric Herman. |
| 1:34.8 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:35.5 | For putting that together for me. |
| 1:36.9 | He did a fantastic job. |
| 1:38.3 | And really, I'm plug it from here. |
| 1:40.8 | He does children's music, folks. I have all his CDs, and I listen to it. It's really good kids music. He does shows too, so get him to come to your area. |
| 1:49.0 | But I guess the big news is that the top 100 has started by the time this video has been |
| 1:54.1 | posted or this is not a video no by the time is audio I'm getting mixed up yes it's |
| 1:59.1 | difficult it's tough can you see me Tom is audio. You got to cut me some slack. Anyway, but the top 100 |
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