TDT - Episode # 270 - Gen Con 2012

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

Leisure, Games

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2012

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

In this extra long Dice Tower, Eric and I take a look at Gen Con. We of course talk about some games we played, such as Dungeon Fighter and Space Cadets, but we also interview a plethora of game designers and publishers. Interspersed amongst this we give our impressions of the convention, and end with a list of Eric's top ten games he played, and Tom's top ten events/things he saw at Gen Con 2012.

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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.
0:10.0	It's 4 a.m.
0:12.0	I'm sitting in the car at Jimini Peak Mountain Resort in the Berkshires in Massachusetts.
0:18.0	I'm on another family vacation and if you'll recall the last family vacation I was on hit right about the time of a major convention and Tom would never let me live it down.
0:31.0	That's not happening this time. I'm sneaking away from the family vacation and I'm going to
0:37.1	GenCon. See you there. The Dice Tower, episode 270.
0:45.0	Gen-Con.
0:46.0	W-Woo!
0:47.0	Again! Oh, Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games, but especially the people who play them.
1:14.2	This time we take one last look at GenCon 2012 with interviews from Richard Lanius,
1:19.4	Rob Dabieu, Bruno Cathala, and Richard Garfield, as well as news on lots of new releases, including
1:24.9	the upcoming Shadows Over Camelot card game.
1:28.2	Tom and I talk about the highs and lows of the Convention and present our top 10 games and events of the con.
1:34.8	This episode is sponsored by Story Realms, a brand new storytelling adventure game hitting
1:40.0	Kickstarter soon.
1:41.9	And by Make Believe Games and their upcoming political intrigue game Democracy.
1:47.0	Like Make Make Believe Games on Facebook to get the latest scoop.
1:51.0	I'm Eric Sommerer and here's your host the Mario Andretti of board gaming, Tom Vassal.
1:57.0	All right folks, before you start fast forwarding through this episode, where this is actually not so much a recap of the
2:05.3	convention although parts of it will be. We'll talk about things we did at the
2:09.0	convention, but as always we want to focus on games themselves to talk about board games and card games and such and so to prove that to you
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