The D6 Generation - Dice Are Our Vice

Tue, 31 January 2012

D6G Ep 96: Ares Project Interview & Eclipse Detailed Review

Geoff Engelstein joins the D6G crew as our third chair. Geoff has contributed the GameTek segment to The Dice Tower podcast for five years, and co-hosts the new podcast Ludology, with Ryan Sturm. Along with his son Brian he designed The Ares Project, released in 2011 by Z-Man Games. Geoff has been involved in the gaming hobby for close to 40 years, and considers himself an 'omni-gamer', enjoying wargames, euros, RPGs, miniatures, and everything game-related.

This episode we check out the new 4x space conquest game Eclipse. What does it bring new to the genre?

But up first: We ask Geoff to round up his son Brian and we discuss all the trials, challenges and rewards of designinga game. What did it take to get their game "The Ares Project" to store shelves?

All that and our other not-too-horrible segments including:

- The Hollywood Minute

- Total Fan Girl

- Do You Ever Notice

- & More

If you'd like to discuss the show with us and others in our forum thread: click here.

The following fine organizations help make this show possible:

Myriad Games, on behalf of friendly, professional gaming stores everywhere.

Game Salute, latest gaming news, great stores, & more!

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www.WolfLair.com

www.TheWarStore.com

www.geeknationtours.com

www.wssmagazine.com

==Quick Reference==

The News: 1 hr 4 min

Ares Project Interview: 1 hr 10 min

Hollywood Minute: 2 hr 2 min

Total Fan Girl: 2 hr 11 min

Eclipse Review: 2 hr 16 min

Links Discussed in the show:

Raef's Blog: Link

Craig's Blog: www.McNerdigansPub.com

Russ's Blog: http://www.RussRant.com

Total Fan Girl Blog: Link

Pulp Gamer Network: Link

Direct download: D6GEp96.mp3
Category:D6G Podcast -- posted at: 2:35 AM

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Wed, 18 January 2012

D6G Ep 95: 2012 Predictions & 2011 Prediction Results

Raef Granger returns to the D6 Generation in Ep 95 to help us prognosticate! Raef, Craig, and Russ look toward the future and try and predicte what events and changes we'll see in 2012 for our favorite hobbies.

But up first: There's the matter of last years predictions! What exactly did we predict would happen in 2011 and how close were we? More importantly...which won of us was most accurate? We find out using our fancy prediction point system.