{"id":828,"date":"2010-04-06T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/04\/06\/snoutcast-10-two-or-more-players\/"},"modified":"2010-04-06T17:10:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T00:10:00","slug":"snoutcast-10-two-or-more-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/04\/06\/snoutcast-10-two-or-more-players\/","title":{"rendered":"SnoutCast #10: Two or More Players"},"content":{"rendered":"

New weekly format! We’re alternating between puzzle hunt and general gaming topics. This week, we discuss the merits of certain tabletop games, especially in two-player versus more-than-two-player configurations.<\/p>\n

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[ Download mp3<\/a> – 26 MB ]<\/small><\/p>\n

00:00 – a snappy<\/span> teaser
02:00 – new format and topic, apropos of Gamestorm<\/a>
03:29 – stressors in Last Night on Earth<\/a>
07:18 – Settlers of Catan<\/a> vs. Catan Card Game<\/a>
09:24 – adding a third wheel, I mean player<\/span>
11:20 – how to beat Curtis at board games
12:46 – bidding and other multi-player interactions
18:13 – making one-player games into two-player experiences
19:00 – anthropomorphizing video game AIs (or not)
20:50 – “Where’s the not having fun<\/span> button?”
22:46 – plug: DASH 2<\/a>, in ten cities across the USA on April 24th!
23:27 – this anecdote would be really funny if you knew Brian Rosen<\/a>, and I hadn’t misquoted him
24:55 – DeeAnn’s Kruschev<\/a> impression
26:44 – Next Week: Game<\/a> Themes!<\/span><\/p>\n

Music: instrumentals from “Code Monkey” and “Re: Your Brains” by Jonathan Coulton<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

[ Subscribe to SnoutCast<\/a> \/ iTunes link<\/a> ]<\/p>\n

\"CKL\" \"DeeAnn\" \"Jasper\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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