Geeks Of Cascadia

Andrew Hackard of Steve Jackson Games talks MUCHKIN! (of course he does). Jeff Newell of HGN Games talks about their awesome cool game called Medieval and our Geeks Tabletop Game Review dou Kelly and Doug review the game Goatfish, available on Kickstarter!

In this interview we get a peek into a new game called Goatfish developed by Chad Gray that is being kickstarted this month! Plus in our new segment “Get to know your nerdy artist” we interview Brandi York. Also we talk to Rob Bottos who runs BottosCon, a fun annual boardgaming convention in Vancouver, British Columbia. Of course our witty banter and con news. Roll the dice!

In this interview find out about David Gerrard’s next project “Tyler Sigman’s Crows”, starting soon on Kickstarter. Later in our segment Geeks Tabletop Game Review, Doug and Kelly review the game Mountains of Madness. Also in this episode in our segment Get To Know Your Game Store we interview Tim Morgan of Around the Table Games. Of course you’ll receive some convention news, witty banter, and meet another podcast host we are calling Durango.

In this interview we interview Starfinder lead designer Owen K.C. Stephens. Find out the behind the scenes development of Paizo’s latest greatest hit Starfinder. Plus we sit down with Levi Mote and talk about his game Horizons. Also we talk to an up and comer to tabletop game design Matt Jacobs who talks about Kitten Klash and his next projects XO. Get ready for a nerdy spacy podcast.

So causes a bunch of strangers who willingly come together to kill each other in vehicular homicidal mania? Well it’s Car Wars of course by Steve Jackson Games! Listen to the podcast to follow this year’s 2017 Dragonflight Car Wars Tournament. Will last year’s Champion defend his title? Will a 14 year old figure out how to drop mines at 110 mph? Will spilling tons of oil to make your opponents spin out result in a hazmat fine? Only one way to find out and that’s to listen to the podcast. A big thank you to Greg Pratt who goes to different cons to put on these tournaments and begs Steve Jackson Games for prize support. Also thanks to Steve Jackson Games who have been supportive.

The whole Geeks of Cascadia crew head to Dragonflight for three days of tabletop games fun. We interview a whole bunch of game developers (most we will have to post later) and we sit down and talk to the outgoing and incoming convention directors. Notes: Several interviews will be posted in later episodes of Geeks of Cascadia. Developers Interviewed: Joseph Z Chen with Fantastic Factories Ken Cassidy and Jason Trout with ACW Games Alice Davis of Kitten Klash, Buildasaurus and one in development

We get the inside scoop of the upcoming OrcaCon this January, later Kelly and Doug review the hot new game “Century Spice Road”. Bluesamurai loves the game especially after beating Doug and Paul.

Blue Samurai and Greg go over each day and gives their insights to GenCon. Greg geeks over Larry Elmore and tries not to die in True Dungeon. Steve apologies about his fumbles and acting weird when he interviewed his tabletop game developer childhood heroes Paul Peterson and Mike Selinker. Throughout the podcast we’ll have interviews from several game developers big and small; Bruce Cordell, David Gerrard, Paul Peterson, Rob Duncan, Robert Huss, Tim Blank and of course David Hoppe the CEO of GenCon. We find out about the future of GenCon and how successful GenCon 50 was. Notes Episode 9 will drop after. With GenCon we had to push the episode out. We had VERY lengthy interviews at GenCon with industry luminaries that we will save for future episodes. Below is what is coming soon! Andrew Hackard: Gives us insights into the Munchkin line and the future of Steve Jackson Games. Mike Selinker: Shares thoughts about his history of game development going back to TSR and what his company, Lone Shark Games, is doing.

We meet with veteran game developer Robert Huss with Counter Clockwork Games and talk about The Shadow Over Westminster, Goblins at the Gates, and how he got into game development. Afterwards we talk to David and Michael Matlock who are trying to break into game development with their new game Congress: The Board Game! We wish those two luck! Of course more con news.

Episode 7 – Kelly Toyama with Imbalanced Games, Dice Forge review, and RPG Curator David Carnahan by Geeks of Cascadia

GenCon the biggest nerdiest table-top games convention in the WORLD turns 50! We talk to Jake Theis with Gen Con and guess what we talk about? Duh! Find out what goes on behind the scenes at GenCon. After that we talk to Evan Louscher with Games & Gizmos and David Stansel-Garner with Verne & Wells. Also we have some con news and more nonsensical nerdy banter.

GoC Episode 5.5 – Lynne Hardy and her journey to RPG Game development by Geeks of Cascadia

In this episode a tale of two cons! We interview Mike Fehlauer with Penny Arcade and PAX then we talk to Patrick Day the Director of the Evergreen Table Top Expo and part owner of Uncle Games. Plus of course con news!

Chris Pramas, of Green Ronin Publishing talks about how he landed the big win with George R.R. Martin to allow him to publish the Song of Fire and Ice RPG (Game of Thrones RPG) and his journey into game development. Plus a funny story about having breakfast with George R.R. Martin and a mysterious lady who offers a muffin up to the famous author. These .5 episodes are actually reruns of old Orcacon pod podcast episodes that never really was shared because we didn’t have an RSS feed at the time we made them, but some of the episodes were SO FREAKING AWESOME we had to play them under our new format so that EVERYONE would hear them. This is one of those episodes.

Nick Sibicky, creator of King’s Forge, chats with GoC about how he got into game development and his successful game, King’s Forge, plus he lets us in on what's coming next. Later we introduce our new segment, Geeks Tabletop Game Review where we check out a new game called Unfair designed by Joel Finch. Let's roll some dice!

GoC Episode 3.5 – Geek Chic tribute episode. We’re sorry you went out of business :( by Geeks of Cascadia

CAR WARS!!! Traveling Car Wars Tournament showman Greg Pratt gives you a sneak peek into the Dragonflight Car Wars Tournament. Later we talk to David Gerrard creator of Junking and By Order of the Queen. Find out how David became a game developer and what his next project is.

Car Wars Tournament! So tell me what happens with you cross Game of Thrones with Car Wars? You get explosive awesomeness coupled with family backstabbing, BFF betrayals, and some dude who understood a little too late that physics can suck when a wall gets in the way of your car. So just for background this episode was played about seven months ago and basically we followed the OrcaCon Car Wars tournament in January by interviewing the players before and during the tournament and especially when they died. These .5 episodes are actually reruns of old Orcacon pod podcast episodes that never really was shared because we didn’t have an RSS feed at the time we made them, but some of the episodes were SO FREAKING AWESOME we had to play them under our new format so that EVERYONE would hear them. This is one of those episodes.

In this episode we feature Wolfgang Baur with Kobold Press and Alex Jerabek with Cherry Picked Games. Wolfgang gives you a look at what's coming out of Kobold Press plus learn what happened when Wolfgang broke it to his mom and dad that he was leaving grad school to pursue RPG writing. Plus the latest industry and convention news. Later Alex shoots the breeze with your GoC crew and lets us in on the latest with Cherry Picked Games and that being a game developer is not all sunshine and roses. Of course some industry news, like what up with Geek Chic, and the latest with Convention news. If you love RPGs and you're an aspiring game developer you won’t want to miss this episode! A huge thanks to Around the Table in Lynnwood and Games & Gizmos and Verne & Wells in Kirkland for letting us hang out at your pad to podcast.

In this .5 episode we bring back an interview we did with Alex Jerabek last year. Alex talks about how he got into game development and started Cherry Picked Games. This is part of our .5 series where we repost OrcaCon Pod Podcast interviews that we did before GoC because we failed to create an RSS feed. in our orginal podcasts you could only access our podcast via soundcloud, you couldn't even subscribe. Now that we have a larger audience to market we decided to repost some of our gems.