One Man Clapping

This week, I take you through all the 'games that were', including the Aeon Trespass marathon.

I refrain from mentioning Betrayal of the Second Era, for one week only, sort of...

Things are ramping up in crowdfunding for the start of the year, in FOMOMOFO I take you through a number of new campaigns, including Everdell Silverfrost, La Patisserie Rococo, Darwin's Journey, as well as the daily pain of 'late pledge season'...

In 'Voices in my Head', I'm unpicking the furor over A.I. art in gaming and what that means, and of course I give the clap to a very deserving recipient.

Get your came on, O.M.C. crew....

This week I go through the 'games that were' from the last 2 weeks, spoiler alert, it was a fantastic 2 weeks...

In INCOMING!!!! I go through what's on the way in, aside from BOTSE, which yes, I will talk about again, sorry, not sorry.... FOMOMOFO touches on the crowdfunding campaigns that are starting to kick off, though it is most definitely a slow start, along with the campaigns that are coming, which look to be amazing!

In 'Voices In My Head', I share my own story, and the role that board games have played and continue to play, in my mental health, I can't be the only one.

Oh, and I give the clap to a very deserved individual, with my personal thanks.

This is the first in OMC's series for 2025 'Not all heroes wear capes', where I bring to you the origin stories for some of board gaming's most notable contributors. Every hero has a beginning, and I'm very excited for this series.

In this episode, we get a VERY candid look at the legendary Paul Grogan and how Gaming Rules was born.

Please note, this was OMC's first international recording and due to some technical difficulties parts of the interview needed to be re-recorded after the fact. If you sense any irregularities or unusual fluctuations in the episode, please note that every effort has been made to correct the gaps with integrity and accuracy to the original interview. My effusive thanks to Paul Grogan for making himself available, and for also for his understanding of the unfortunate gaffe.

Also, for those of you that are wondering if Paul Grogan is as much a gentleman in person as he appears to be, the answer is no, he is not. He is far more, with a generosity of spirit that supersedes your expectations at every turn.

Oh yes, and cicadas. Still the freaking cicadas.

In our last episode recorded in 2024 Super Trooper and I unpick our top 10 most played for the year, not our top ten games, but those that were on the table the very most!

As usual, we wrap that up with a few more special treats for dessert, as this season is all about as much as you can fit in as possible, and we cover off our top 'new to us', and then we of course finish with our pick for best release of 2024.

Happy new year clappers!

I've survived Christmas, it's NYE tomorrow, and I've only played 3 different games, but spoiler alert, I've played Agemonia 8 times.

This week I share my boxing day Impulse-FOMO shenanigans, you get a bit of a look in to my obsession with food, and I talk all things Agemonia.

It's a big week for content, and I'm just getting started.

Love ya.

This week I go through all the Games That Were, what's happening with 'Incoming!!!!', my waning Christmas related Fomomofo, and in Voices in my Head I talk back and forth on the difference between affordability and value, and what they mean to me when I talk about board games.

Then I give the clap to a very special person, without whom, we wouldn't get through the season. You know who you are.

also... cicadas....

This bonus episode featuring the inimitable Super Trooper has us choosing between this or that!

10 rounds of life's hard choices, and I hope you like freaking cicadas, because it's Starship Troopers right now, down under.

And for dessert we go three rounds of non-board game related choices, so you're going to get to know a little more about two board game legends.

Yes, legends. Love ya!

This week I'm talking all the games that were, we're going down the rabbit hole with two massive campaigns in FOMOMOFO....

Postman Pete is getting a reprieve to focus on Christmas deliveries and in 'Voices in my Head' I share my thoughts on the Cult of the New and how it plays evil games with my tiny brain in tandem with Fomo....

And I beg Santa again for delivery of Betrayal of the Second Era, by Christmas.... I will bake the best mother flippin' cookies you've ever eaten, Fat Man....

This week on OMC we're joined by a very special guest and friend of the show, and we're discussing the games that absolutely must be played in 2025.

Are they on our 'shelf of firsts'? Classics we want to play again? Incoming crowdfunding games?

Yes, yes they are.

Then we drop a little dessert with 'The Fat Man Cometh'....

Game on.

This week I dive into the games that were, I talk about what's Incoming and the details of Postman Pete's workload, this week's FOMOMOFO which was massive, and in Voices In My Head, I share my first time, all my first times.

I give the clap to someone that truly deserves it and then I sail off into the sunset.

It's a bumper length episode this week, get yourself whatever form of liquid fuel keeps you going!

Game on!

In this episode, we'll talk about the games that were... not many games, but MASSIVE ones, we zip through INCOMING!!!! and spend quite a bit of time with my personal issues in FOMOMOFO, before tackling the notion of the Uber Campaign, and then giving a (potentially controversial) clap.

In this episode you get to hear about all 'the games that were', we talk about Civolution in 'Incoming!!!!', I take you to a Lacerda-esque Japan, and farming in space in 'FOMOMOFO', and in Voices in my Head I share a deep and meaningful insight into how a dip on boardgames affected my general well being over the last 2 weeks. Don't worry, it has a happy ending.

Excelsior!

Welcome to Episode 8, with all the OMC goodness. We have a great week of 'the games that were', and a solid update on 'Incoming!!!!', there's no FOMOMOFO this week due to the shift in publishing schedule.

I dissect the glorious card play in Arcs, which has been very much underplayed in every review I've seen and of course, I'm going to give someone the 'clap'.

Saddle up, clappers.

Lying on my back, with dodgy cartilage in my spine has made me an angry angry man.....

This week we talk about the 'game that were' (no that is not a typo), we go WAY deep into FOMOMOFO territory and sell a kidney to support our game addiction and in 'voices in my head' we go into all the things that peeve me off in gaming.

Fair warning, this could easily be called the 'sweary' episode, It's been a rough week.

I've survived the recovery from PAX, with a touch of Covid, and a serving of spinal trauma, but NOTHING gets in the way of bringing it to the people!

This week, we go into all things PAX AUS, I give you a small taste of what it's like to have an actual conversation with HAL (just a small one), and I give the clap to my favourite new board game related app.

Essen is on this week, but the One Man lives in Australia!

Instead we talk about the two big ones down under, Play Con and Pax Australia and why they should definitely be in your calendar every year!

And someone gets the clap.....

This week we go on a journey of self exploration.

No really, We're talking nonsense about board games and board gaming culture, and what it means to be a solo gamer.

We also give someone the clap.

Enjoy our new theme music, written by our co-host, HAL!

In this episode we review the games we played last week, we have a full FOMOMOFO meltdown, looking out to the end of the year, and we explore what it means to deluxe your game, and does it really add value, and more importantly, do we really care?

This week we introduce the notion and segment of the FOMOMOFO, spoiler alert, that's me, as we go through the crowdfunding projects that plague my bank balance.

We'll talk about the trials and tribulations of being a massive Lacerda fan and of course, and we will be giving someone the clap.

I may have hit the wrong button late in the episode, sorry, not sorry.

We're talking the boardgames I played this week as well as starting the series of 'my favourite things'.

This week I'm talking about my favourite contributors globally, focusing on three contributors from three continents.

If you're still here, congrats, it will either get better from here, or a whole lot worse, but as we're all gamers, roll the dice!