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Episode 212 - Cooperation, Communication, and Vantage with Jamey Stegmaier
Jamey Stegmaier, disc golf enthusiast, omni gamer, and president/CEO of Stonemaier Games, drops by the show to talk about communication in cooperative games with Pete and Jake. We also discuss the upcoming vantage, informed by a playtest session of the game.
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Timestamps
Show Business - 0:00
Main Topic - 4:19
Vantage - 45:03
Games Mentioned
Vantage, Codenames, Sleeping Gods, Forbidden Desert, Pandemic, Concordia Venus, Just One, Blob Party, Mechs vs Minions, Gloomhaven, Shadows over Camelot, Time Stories, Hanabi, The Crew, The Mind, Captain Sonar, Guards of Atlantis 2, Decorum, Lord of the Rings: the Trick Taking Game, Smitten, Mysterium Park
Preplanners
Next week's episode will begin counting down our four hosts' top 10 games of all time!
Music and Sound Credits
Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s
You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/.
Thank you to Flash Floods for use of their song Palm of Your Hand as a sting from their album Halfway to Anywhere: https://open.spotify.com/album/2fE6LrqzNDKPYWyS5evh3K?si=CCjdAGmeSnOOEui6aV3_nA
Rules Overview Music:
Way Home by Tokyo Music Walker https://soundcloud.com/user-356546060 Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/tokyo-music-walker-way... Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/pJThZlOuDtI
Intermission Music:
music elevator ext part 1/3 by Jay_You -- https://freesound.org/s/467243/ -- License: Attribution 4.0
Bell with Crows by MKzing -- https://freesound.org/s/474266/ -- License: Creative Commons 0
hammer v2.wav by blukotek -- https://freesound.org/s/337815/ -- License: Creative Commons 0
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