Coop Cast

Liz Davidson and Jason get together once again to discuss history in games in two parts. In this first part, we discuss Euro games and other mass market games that leverage history for attention, sales, and audience comfort. In seeking audience comfort, those games lie to our faces. We analyze examples of these games - Puerto Rico, AuZtralia, Hadrian's Wall, and more. We also chart some ways forward. Shelf Stories YouTube (with video of this recording) - www.youtube.com/shelfstories __________________________________ YouTube - www.youtube.com/onestopcoopshop www.youtube.com/channel/UCPCIkULbgzMEW612cSdUX7Q Discord - discord.gg/p4jX8AF Facebook - www.facebook.com/onestopcoopshop Donate to One Stop Co-op Shop - www.patreon.com/onestop Email - onestopcoopshop@gmail.com

Steve & Kim review the cooperative mode for Terraforming Mars Ares Expedition in two parts. The first part is the usual top 5 format with the later section a more indepth look at the rest of the game. Hope you enjoy! YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrOtGhui_jdLdoQNI7PU4Pg YouTube(streamed) - https://www.youtube.com/c/OneStopCoopShopStreamed Podcast - https://soundcloud.com/onestopcoopshop Discord - https://discord.gg/p4jX8AF Facebook - www.facebook.com/onestopcoopshop Donate to One Stop Co-op Shop - https://www.patreon.com/onestop Email - onestopcoopshop@gmail.com

Jona Minotto, the One Pip Wonder, joins the show to share what she has learned about sustainability and eco-friendliness in board games. We have bad news for gamers, especially those of us who have gotten used to lots of pretty plastic chrome in our games. However, we end on a hopeful note and point to some ways forward. One Pip Wonder YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHf-oGRKOC6VcsDZmbxKF4w ------------------------------ Shelf Stories YouTube (with video of this recording) - www.youtube.com/shelfstories __________________________________ YouTube - www.youtube.com/onestopcoopshop www.youtube.com/channel/UCPCIkULbgzMEW612cSdUX7Q Discord - discord.gg/p4jX8AF Facebook - www.facebook.com/onestopcoopshop Donate to One Stop Co-op Shop - www.patreon.com/onestop Email - onestopcoopshop@gmail.com

This week Mike & Collin talk about what they have been playing, and review Roll Player Adventures. _________________________ YouTube - www.youtube.com/channel/UCrOtGhui_jdLdoQNI7PU4Pg YouTube(streamed) - www.youtube.com/channel/UCPCIkULbgzMEW612cSdUX7Q TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@one_stop_coop_shop Podcast - @onestopcoopshop Discord - discord.gg/p4jX8AF Facebook - www.facebook.com/onestopcoopshop Merch: https://one-stop-co-op-shop.creator-spring.com/ Donate to One Stop Co-op Shop - www.patreon.com/onestop Email - onestopcoopshop@gmail.com

Matthew Dunstan, designer of the Adventure series and many other games, provides a frank, transparent discussion about what he makes as a game designer, what it takes to go full-time, how to arrange royalties, and a whole host of other related subjects. 0:00 Intro 1:52 The Games - Adventure, Professor Evil, Echoes, and More 7:19 Life of a Game Designer 22:00 Overall Finances of a Game Designer 34:05 Designer Royalty Percentages 44:57 Advances on Royalies 51:17 Designers Playing it Safe? 1:02:15 Designers, Don't Be Afraid! Shelf Stories YouTube (with video of this recording) - www.youtube.com/shelfstories __________________________________ YouTube - www.youtube.com/onestopcoopshop www.youtube.com/channel/UCPCIkULbgzMEW612cSdUX7Q Discord - discord.gg/p4jX8AF Facebook - www.facebook.com/onestopcoopshop Donate to One Stop Co-op Shop - www.patreon.com/onestop Email - onestopcoopshop@gmail.com

Andrew Fischer hops back on the show to give us an update on Earthborne Rangers development and iteration. We get wonky in this one! Shelf Stories YouTube (with video of this recording) - www.youtube.com/shelfstories __________________________________ YouTube - www.youtube.com/onestopcoopshop www.youtube.com/channel/UCPCIkULbgzMEW612cSdUX7Q Discord - discord.gg/p4jX8AF Facebook - www.facebook.com/onestopcoopshop Donate to One Stop Co-op Shop - www.patreon.com/onestop Email - onestopcoopshop@gmail.com

Steve & Bairnt meet on Co-op Chat to discuss some of the exciting upcoming games planned to release in 2022. YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrOtGhui_jdLdoQNI7PU4Pg YouTube(streamed) - https://www.youtube.com/c/OneStopCoopShopStreamed Podcast - https://soundcloud.com/onestopcoopshop Discord - https://discord.gg/p4jX8AF Facebook - www.facebook.com/onestopcoopshop Donate to One Stop Co-op Shop - https://www.patreon.com/onestop Email - onestopcoopshop@gmail.com

This week Peter & Mike go through all 20 games we reviewed this year and rank them from worst to best. YouTube - www.youtube.com/channel/UCrOtGhui_jdLdoQNI7PU4Pg YouTube(streamed) - www.youtube.com/channel/UCPCIkULbgzMEW612cSdUX7Q Podcast - @onestopcoopshop Discord - discord.gg/p4jX8AF Facebook - www.facebook.com/onestopcoopshop Donate to One Stop Co-op Shop - www.patreon.com/onestop Email - onestopcoopshop@gmail.com

Jeremy Howard of Jambalaya Plays Games and Man Vs. Meeple shares the games he is looking forward to in 2022! Shelf Stories YouTube (with video of this recording) - www.youtube.com/shelfstories __________________________________ YouTube - www.youtube.com/onestopcoopshop www.youtube.com/channel/UCPCIkULbgzMEW612cSdUX7Q Discord - discord.gg/p4jX8AF Facebook - www.facebook.com/onestopcoopshop Donate to One Stop Co-op Shop - www.patreon.com/onestop Email - onestopcoopshop@gmail.com

Jeremy Howard of Man Vs. Meeple joins me so we can give our Top Five Solo Games for 2021! ----- 5:54 Solo Year in Review 8:58 Jeremy's #5 12:08 Jason's #5 14:45 Jeremy's #4 19:58 Jason's #4 23:39 Jeremy's #3 28:22 Jason's #3 31:36 Jeremy's #2 38:15 Jason's #2 42:26 Jeremy's #1 49:13 Jason's #1 52:06 Outro Shelf Stories YouTube (with video of this recording) - www.youtube.com/shelfstories __________________________________ YouTube - www.youtube.com/onestopcoopshop www.youtube.com/channel/UCPCIkULbgzMEW612cSdUX7Q Discord - discord.gg/p4jX8AF Facebook - www.facebook.com/onestopcoopshop Donate to One Stop Co-op Shop - www.patreon.com/onestop Email - onestopcoopshop@gmail.com

Steve, Kim, Colin, and Bairnt meet live to discuss 2021 and talk about the best and worst games of the year. YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrOtGhui_jdLdoQNI7PU4Pg YouTube(streamed) - https://www.youtube.com/c/OneStopCoopShopStreamed Podcast - https://soundcloud.com/onestopcoopshop Discord - https://discord.gg/p4jX8AF Facebook - www.facebook.com/onestopcoopshop Donate to One Stop Co-op Shop - https://www.patreon.com/onestop Email - onestopcoopshop@gmail.com

This week Peter & Mike talk about our PaxU 2021 experience. Hear about all the games we saw and played and find out our games of the show. YouTube - www.youtube.com/channel/UCrOtGhui_jdLdoQNI7PU4Pg YouTube(streamed) - www.youtube.com/channel/UCPCIkULbgzMEW612cSdUX7Q Podcast - @onestopcoopshop Discord - discord.gg/p4jX8AF Facebook - www.facebook.com/onestopcoopshop Donate to One Stop Co-op Shop - www.patreon.com/onestop Email - onestopcoopshop@gmail.com

Jason plays a bit of "devil's advocate" in this episode. In response to my discussion with Geoff Engelstein which held a whole lot of skepticism, a few watchers reached out to me to defend their purchases of NFTs and participation in that community. For the sake of a more well rounded discussion, I try to recreate their counter arguments as far as I can. ----- 0:00 Intro 4:41 What is Value? 5:46 Memorabilia 9:08 Owning Digital Art Assets 17:14 NFTs as a Force for Good 18:38 Environmental Cost and Theft from Artists 22:25 The Point is a Good Discussion ----- Shelf Stories YouTube (with video of this recording) - www.youtube.com/shelfstories __________________________________ YouTube - www.youtube.com/onestopcoopshop www.youtube.com/channel/UCPCIkULbgzMEW612cSdUX7Q Discord - discord.gg/p4jX8AF Facebook - www.facebook.com/onestopcoopshop Donate to One Stop Co-op Shop - www.patreon.com/onestop Email - onestopcoopshop@gmail.com

Jason is taking a bit of a break from making fresh content for a few weeks as we enter the holiday season. In the meantime, please enjoy this guest appearance that Jason did on another show! Jason had the privilege of presenting Top Ten Card Games with Richard Ham, aka Rahdo. As usual, conversations with Rahdo are pretty long! However, we cover a lot of solo and cooperative games, among a few others, for you to enjoy. This episode has been reproduced with Richard's kind permission. You can find the original here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB_DIU8os8M YouTube - www.youtube.com/onestopcoopshop www.youtube.com/channel/UCPCIkULbgzMEW612cSdUX7Q Discord - discord.gg/p4jX8AF Facebook - www.facebook.com/onestopcoopshop Donate to One Stop Co-op Shop - www.patreon.com/onestop Email - onestopcoopshop@gmail.com

Jason sits down with Geoff Engelstein to discuss blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and NFTs. We do our best to talk about what's going on in layman's terms that gamers can understand. The short message is that blockchains and cryptocurrencies have a lot of potential, but that NFTs in their current forms are grifts that prey on the confusion surrounding them. 0:00 Intro 2:26 Geoff talks Super Skill Pinball: Ramp It Up 6:36 Blockchain 24:30 Cryptocurrencies 37:39 NFTs 59:03 Environmentally Damaging? 1:09:31 Kickstarter's Move to Blockchain Shelf Stories YouTube (with video of this recording) - www.youtube.com/shelfstories __________________________________ YouTube - www.youtube.com/onestopcoopshop www.youtube.com/channel/UCPCIkULbgzMEW612cSdUX7Q Discord - discord.gg/p4jX8AF Facebook - www.facebook.com/onestopcoopshop Donate to One Stop Co-op Shop - www.patreon.com/onestop Email - onestopcoopshop@gmail.com

This week Peter and Mike talk about Final Girl and have a design discussion about adding a board to games. _________________________ The Royal Fortune (Keyforge Adventure) Rules and PnP files: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1o8_iLXtWiPT1aMbshkOv6EcxYsGadBSy?usp=sharing TTS Mod: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2660163604 _________________________ YouTube - www.youtube.com/channel/UCrOtGhui_jdLdoQNI7PU4Pg YouTube(streamed) - www.youtube.com/channel/UCPCIkULbgzMEW612cSdUX7Q Podcast - @onestopcoopshop Discord - discord.gg/p4jX8AF Facebook - www.facebook.com/onestopcoopshop Merch: https://one-stop-co-op-shop.creator-spring.com/ Donate to One Stop Co-op Shop - www.patreon.com/onestop Email - onestopcoopshop@gmail.com

With Liz Davidson's kind permission, we are replaying this conversation from her podcast, Beyond Solitaire. She spoke with the designer of Obsession, Dan Hallagan, all about his game Obsession, focusing on its wonderful historical theme of Victorian England. YouTube - www.youtube.com/onestopcoopshop www.youtube.com/channel/UCPCIkULbgzMEW612cSdUX7Q Discord - discord.gg/p4jX8AF Facebook - www.facebook.com/onestopcoopshop Donate to One Stop Co-op Shop - www.patreon.com/onestop Email - onestopcoopshop@gmail.com

(Apologies for my mic quality in this one. Darn Zoom. I did the best I could to recover the audio). I interview Cole Medeiros, designer of Stardew Valley, the Board Game, about designing a different style of cooperative game. We discuss realizing the open world, delightful spirit of the video game in cardboard in a way that satisfies the hobby gamer instinct for control and agency. Stardew Valley: The Board Game preorder - https://shop.stardewvalley.net/products/stardew-valley-the-board-game ----- Shelf Stories YouTube (with video of this recording) - www.youtube.com/shelfstories __________________________________ YouTube - www.youtube.com/onestopcoopshop www.youtube.com/channel/UCPCIkULbgzMEW612cSdUX7Q Discord - discord.gg/p4jX8AF Facebook - www.facebook.com/onestopcoopshop Donate to One Stop Co-op Shop - www.patreon.com/onestop Email - onestopcoopshop@gmail.com

Steve & Kim sit down and compare some recent upcoming open world adventure games. Specifically Arydia, Isofarian Guard, and Skyrim. This was a previously recorded live episode of Co-op Chat on the One Stop Co-op Shop Streamed YouTube channel. YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrOtGhui_jdLdoQNI7PU4Pg YouTube(streamed) - https://www.youtube.com/c/OneStopCoopShopStreamed Podcast - https://soundcloud.com/onestopcoopshop Discord - https://discord.gg/p4jX8AF Facebook - www.facebook.com/onestopcoopshop Donate to One Stop Co-op Shop - https://www.patreon.com/onestop Email - onestopcoopshop@gmail.com

This week Peter and Bairnt talk about Kingdom Death Monster and have a design discussion about dungeon crawlers, adventure games and boss battlers. YouTube - www.youtube.com/channel/UCrOtGhui_jdLdoQNI7PU4Pg YouTube(streamed) - www.youtube.com/channel/UCPCIkULbgzMEW612cSdUX7Q Podcast - @onestopcoopshop Discord - discord.gg/p4jX8AF Facebook - www.facebook.com/onestopcoopshop Merch: one-stop-co-op-shop.creator-spring.com/ Donate to One Stop Co-op Shop - www.patreon.com/onestop Email - onestopcoopshop@gmail.com