Board Games with Scott

I’ve been doing short video reviews for about 6 months and posting them to YouTube. These reviews are filmed during the play of the game, so they are much less polished and usually involve me talking with the players about their impressions of the game.

Most are under 5 minutes.

I’ve made about 30 of them so far, and you can find them all at
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL87F7ABA9235A8565

If you want to keep up with my YouTube video series, they are all posted in my snicholson channel at
http://www.youtube.com/snicholson

You can also keep up with me via my public Google+ channel, which is at
http://gplus.to/snicholson

I’ve started a new blog focused on my research on games called Play Matters. It’s going to be my main focus where I talk about what I’m going with serious games, games in education, and game design.

If you want to keep up with my scholarly view of games, you can do so at
http://becauseplaymatters.com

As part of a charity auction on Board Game Geek for Tom Vasel, I volunteered to create a video (with a silly opening) on the game of the high bidders’ choosing. The winning game was The Republic of Rome.

You can watch the video here:

or download it through the Internet Archive at http://www.archive.org/details/TeachingVideoAboutTheRepublicOfRome.

This isn’t a return of BGWS, but a special video for the auction. I didn’t have a very good experience putting this together, so I don’t plan on doing this again.

If you’d like to talk about this video, head over to http://boardgamegeek.com/video/7523/the-republic-of-rome/teaching-video-on-the-republic-of-rome-with-silly

I’ve posted an auction on Boardgamegeek.com for over 100 board and video games from my collection that closes on May 22. You’re welcome to visit and bid, and if you find the minimum bid too high for you, you can place an offer that I’ll consider!

You can find the auction at
http://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/67340/bgws-closeout-auction-ending-may-22/

On a recent episode of CBS Sunday Morning, I was part of a segment on modern board games. I think they did a pretty good job of covering the hobby, despite the “look at the weird people” opening segment showing people in RPG and video game costumes.

You can see the video at
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7361550n

and learn more about the filming of my segment at
http://boardgamegeek.com/article/6537880

Greetings!

As I’ve closed down the show, I’ve decided to sell off about 350 of my games (which is about a third of my collection, so I’m not selling everything!) You can find information about the sale at http://tinyurl.com/bgwssale

You can still hear me on the On Board Games podcast. I was particularly happy with Episode 58, where we talked about ideas we are working on as game designers. You can hear that episode at

During the last few months, I’ve been writing about games in two places.

First – I’ve been looking at larger issues in board games as the Game Professor over at Board Game Info. You can find these posts over at boardgameinfo.com and there is an RSS feed at http://www.boardgameinfo.com/external.php?do=rss&type=newcontent&sectionid=43&days=120&count=10action=subscribe

Second – I’ve started a blog on Board Game Geek called “Get Off My Lawn.” This is a very different take about games – I’m taking aspects of games that bother me for some reason and talking about them. My hope is that it will help future designers to see things about their game that might bother some players. This is Grumpy Old Man Nicholson, who has been in the background for years during Board Games with Scott, enjoying his time to grouse about games. You can read these posts over at boardgamegeek.com or get an RSS feed at http://boardgamegeek.com/rss/blog/292

I will be doing a teaching video about Republic of Rome, as that was the winner in the auction for Jack Vasel. I’m reading the rules, but have a play of it on the schedule for later in April, so I expect to work on this video in May.

Finally, I am getting ideas for a “Things I Regret” BGWS video, where I do some of the bits and games that I truly regretted not getting around to for BGWS.

Tom Vasel, one of the inspirations for Board Games with Scott, recently lost his 2-month old son and is facing significant hospital bills. There is a fundraising auction going on right now for him.

I have donated a board game video on the game of the top bidder’s choosing.

So, if you are a publisher or designer wanting to get the word out about your game or just have a favorite game you want the world to know about, here is your chance.

You can bid on this at
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/63654/item/1557385#item1557385
through February 7th.