Board Games with Scott

On Tuesday, Nov. 27th, I was on WORD-FM, talking about Board Games. You can get the MP3 file directly or listen to the segment at http://www.archive.org/details/Word-fmSegment-BoardGameRecommendations-November2007

If you are visiting here because you heard me on WORD-FM, welcome! Here are videos about the games I discussed on the show:

Wits and Wagers – http://www.boardgameswithscott.com/?p=53

GiftTRAP – http://www.boardgameswithscott.com/?p=43

Blokus
I talked about Blokus on a local PBS segment, which you can get at
http://www.archive.org/download/ScottNicholsonOnHourCny1/hourcnygames.mov

Ticket to Ride – http://www.boardgameswithscott.com/?p=19

The community site is Board Game Geek – http://boardgamegeek.com.

If you are looking to purchase some of these games, you can get them at Funagain Games.

Finally, if you want to learn more, I’ve got a Board Games 101 video where I present an overview of these types of games.

I’ve been on hiatus for a while in making new videos, but I’ve started production up again. To be notified about new videos, there are some options over on the right-hand column near the top, like “E-mail notification”.

What could be going on?

In case you are interested, I’ve started a BoardGameGeek Guild about Board Games with Scott. This is where I’ll talk about what I’m up to, what games I have planned to make videos about, and offer forums for other chit-chat about the show.

You will need a BGG account to join, and then you can sign up at

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/guild/395

(p.s. I still can’t find my camera! It was one of the last things to be packed, so now I’m suspecting it is in a box labeled for a different room, like (shudder) “Storage”. The unpacking continues…)

We’re moved into the new place (and still have had no offers on the old one). I’ve put up track lighting in the basement for my filming, but I have not yet found the box with the video camera. It’s somewhere.. in a box…somewhere…

As it always seems to go, everything takes longer than it should. You would think in this time of a housing slump, there would be so little work that those involved with houses would be eager to work!

We own the house, but are still waiting on some big repairs before we can start moving in. My studio is still in a box, and I’m spending all that free time that would usually go to making a video on packing, painting, assembling, and trying to get most of the house ready before school starts. Consider BGWS in hiatus until I get my life back in order. If you just can’t live without your dose of Scott, I’m still contributing to the On Board Games podcast.

(We actually own two houses – if you know of anyone in Syracuse looking for a house, please send them my way!!)

Greetings!

We’re closing on our new house tomorrow (after weeks of delays) so I won’t be putting up an episode for another few weeks as we repair the new house and then move in. (note – our current house remains unsold, so if you are looking or know someone who is looking in the Syracuse area, please point them to MLS# 173519).

I was the organizer and moderator of a panel called “Meet the Boardgame Broadcasters” at Origins, and Jim Van Verth of The Vintage Gamer recorded the panel and put it up on his site. It features me, representing both Board Games with Scott and the On Board Games podcast, Tom and Sam from the Dice Tower, Dave and Stephen from The Spiel, and Jim from The Vintage Gamer, and Mark and Jay from The Metagamers. We talk about our shows and have a lot of fun.

You can listen to this panel over at
http://essentialmath.com/vintagegamer/?p=60
where it says “Standard Podcast”.

If you want to discuss it, there is a thread at Board Game Geek
.