Joonas and Luis are going to Spiel Essen 2025. But which games are they most excited about?
04:19 Feya's Swamp
09:05 The Druids of Edora
11:13 Bid Coin
14:20 Night Soil
16:30 Animal Rescue Team
19:37 Severton
22:32 Formidable Farm
24:58 ARDEVUR: The Game of Resources
27:07 Peak Team
29:40 Light Speed Arena
32:31 Oliva
37:22 Surprise picks
37:53 Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock
40:19 Tax the Rich
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#018 - The Merits of Top X Lists
Luis tries to convince Joonas that top 10 lists are the single best way to convey information of any kind in any setting.
01:03 3 Chapters
12:50 6 Nimmt
25:04 For Sale
38:19 The Merits of Top X Lists
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#017 - Ropecon 2025: LARPs and RPGs We Played
Joonas and Luis go through the LARPs and RPGs they played at Ropecon 2025.
Larps from the Factory book: https://larpfactorybookproject.blogspot.com/p/welcome.html
05:27 The Kids Are Not All Right
10:11 A Mother's Heart
19:06 The Fall of Delta Green/Delta Green
26:28 Dungeons & Dragons
38:07 Beyond One and Zero
49:48 Inheritance
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#016 - Ropecon 2025: Board Games We Played Together
Joonas and Luis go through the board games they played together at Ropecon 2025.
00:44 Ropecon 2025
05:36 Tigris & Euphrates
11:43 Bomb Busters
17:51 Combo Up
23:09 Ethnos
31:48 Capital Lux 2: Generations
36:22 Samurai
43:15 Friedrich
51:41 Battle Line
01:03:01 Lata + Lure + Chinatown + PUSH + FTW?!
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#015 - Winning and Friendship
Do competitive games strain friendships?
Luis and Joonas will also talk about Regicide, The Anarchy, and Skara Brae.
The research papers referred to in the episode are:
Gaining a competitive edge: Longitudinal associations between children’s competitive video game playing, conduct problems, peer relations, and prosocial behavior
https://awspntest.apa.org/record/2017-36453-001\
The influence of competitive and cooperative video games on behavior during play and friendship quality in adolescence
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0747563218305132
Timestamps:
00:33 Regicide
12:02 The Anarchy + Skara Brae
14:34 The Anarchy
24:18 Skara Brae
28:41 Winning and Friendship
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