Boardgames To Go 231 - Online Boardgame Group for Two (with Dave Arnott and Mike Mayer)

Boardgames To Go 231 - Online Boardgame Group for Two (with Dave Arnott and Mike Mayer)

Opener: Wayfarers of the South Tigris

David Arnott

@Arnott

Mike Mayer

@Mike Mayer


If you're like me, you've been supplementing your in-person boardgaming with the ability to play online. I've been doing that for over 20 years, way before the covid pandemic struck. However, that worldwide event opened up the joys of online boardgaming to many more gamers, especially as they worked to keep connections going with friends they couldn't see across the table for many months. Add in the explosion of titles and popularity of BoardgameArena, coupled with the widespread use of Discord, Zoom, or other voice/video communication tools, and gamers today have more ability to stay in touch than ever before.

My two guests have taken that, stuck with it, and done more than I've ever managed to do with all of my online play: make a regular game group out of it. Three years on, no longer with the pandemic as the reason, Dave and Mike continue to get together almost every week to play games together. One's in California, the other in Virginia, but they meet more regularly than most in-person game groups. Sometimes they widen the circle to include some other friends like me, but primarily this is a 2-person game group, another interesting aspect.



Like me, these guys have been around a long time, have favorites going back decades, yet in this online group they're really espousing the Cult of the New. Why is that? Why are they always learning new games, why do they enjoy online roll & writes so much, and what the heck is Tulpenfieber?! Listen and find out.



Closer: The sort of old school games I don't like


-Mark

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Boardgames To Go 216 - Mark's Mega Month of May

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Boardgames To Go 215 - The New Normal

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Boardgames To Go 214 - Turning the Mic Around on Me (with Steve Paap)

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Nonsense Junkie @elschmear Opener: • Mark: Caesar's Empire • Steve: Trendy My friend Steve Paap joins me again, but this time he turns the tables, interviewing ME on my own podcast. We talk a...

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Boardgames To Go 213E - Mark Madness 2023 The Final Four

Boardgames To Go 213E - Mark Madness 2023 The Final Four

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Boardgames To Go 213D - Mark Madness The Sweet 16

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This micro-episode shares some overview of the Rounds 1 & 2 voting, such as blowout wins and close calls. I get to share the Sweet 16 and imagine which of the four games in each of the four divisions ...

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Boardgames To Go 213C - Mark Madness Round 1 Voting

Boardgames To Go 213C - Mark Madness Round 1 Voting

The third micro-episode of the podcast talks about the predictions that are now locked-in and the voting that we're all just starting. Follow the link below and subscribe to that geeklist where it hap...

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Boardgames To Go 213B - Boardgames To Go Madness Predictions

Boardgames To Go 213B - Boardgames To Go Madness Predictions

The SECOND micro-episode of the podcast that spreads the news and encourages folks to enter predictions & make votes in a 64-title, single-elimination contest between award-winning boardgames.  https...

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Boardgames To Go 213A - Welcome to Boardgames To Go Madness

The first micro-episode of the podcast that spreads the news and encourages folks to enter predictions & make votes in a 64-title, single-elimination contest between award-winning boardgames.  https:...

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