Episode 23 - Games in the Time of Coronavirus

With everything that's going on right now, it hardly seems important to post up a podcast of five guys rambling about games, but as the late, great Freddie Mercury sang, the show must go on. So here's our first episode recorded since the coronavirus lockdown began. Sorry about the audio quality - between the lower-quality equipment we had to use and some problems with Zoom's recording process, I'm just glad that we have a more-or-less audible episode. 

There's no particular theme to this show, other than "how we've been gaming when we can't get together with other gamers." We start with board games, of course, but also take side trips into computer games, role-playing games, and escape rooms, so hopefully you'll find something here that will help. We promise that next episode will be a little more traditional for us, assuming that the sun hasn't exploded by then. In the meantime, please stay safe. We're here if you want to talk. (Seriously.)

In this episode:

• • Boy, do we have opinions about things. (This should come as no surprise to frequent listeners.)
  • Joe has lost all sense of time. (We all have, but his case seems worse.)
  • Here are a bazillion links to sources of lockdown-friendly gaming and entertainment:
    • Tabletop Simulator
    • Tabletopia
    • Board Game Arena
    • Yucata.de
    • Forgotten Waters Remote Assistant
    • The Escape Game
    • SquonkLand
    • Breakout EDU

As always, we appreciate your listening and would love to hear your comments on any or all of these items, and especially a review on iTunes if you have the time and inclination!

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Intro and outro music is "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.

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