Brainwaves - Board Game and Tabletop News Show
Leisure:Games
Wrecking his way into Brainwaves HQ Mark Mckinnon from Dream Big Games joins Iain and Jamie on this week’s episode. Together they tackle plagiarism, the rise of the robots, oddly shaped awards, the meteoric rise of Kickstarter and the interns have finally finished off the new RPG corner!
Headlines
Plagiarism accusations hit popular boardgame site
Reddit thread
https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/c972ja/katies_game_corner_accused_of_plagiarism/
Punchboard Media Statement
https://www.punchboardmedia.com/home/2019/7/5/punchboard-media-statement-on-plagiarism-regarding-katies-game-corner
Robot AI takes on Poker
https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/11/20690078/ai-poker-pluribus-facebook-cmu-texas-hold-em-six-player-no-limit
Diana Jones Award
http://www.dianajonesaward.org/
News
7 Tabletop Games fund a day
https://icopartners.com/2019/07/crowdfunding-and-tabletop-games-2019-mid-year-update/
Lewis Chessmen Update
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/jul/02/lewis-chessman-bought-for-5-sold-at-auction-for-735000?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR3fqPtmUHRAlaqTC0pWv-EJyMS5BIoD_05bpuG1o5Mnb5MMes0GvBqNZHM#Echobox=1562079543
RPG Corner
Stygian Fox
https://www.geeknative.com/67426/kickstarter-suspends-campaign-putting-rpg-publisher-stygian-foxs-future-in-doubt/?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=buffer&utm_content=buffer69ae6
https://www.facebook.com/StygianFoxPublishing/posts/2030144697090649
Destination Fantastic
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/destinationfantastic/destination-fantastic
Professional DMs
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-07-08/how-to-be-a-professional-dungeons-dragons-master-hosting-games?utm_medium=social&cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_content=business&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic
...and finally
There Will Be Games
https://therewillbe.games/
Tabletop Scotland
https://tabletopscotland.co.uk/
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Our Guest - Mark McKinnon, Dream Big Games
https://wreckandruingame.co.uk/
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Episode 91 - Brain Thoughts
On Stage with The Smart Party
Episode 90 - Tabletop Berserker
Episode 89 - Knight’s Dawn
Episode 88 - Blocked Out
Episode 87- Fake War
Episode 86 - Iello, Iello
Episode 85 - Power Down
On Stage with Christopher Eggett
Episode 84 - Hacker‘s Ransom
Episode 83 - Financial Insults
Episode 82 - Green Awards
Episode 81 - Small Screen
Episode 80 - Historically Accurate
Episode 79 - Wizard Workshop
Episode 78 - Cash Money
Episode 77 - Groundhog Brains
On Stage with James Hewitt
Episode 76 - Tactically Stupid
Episode 75 - G7 Games
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