Thanks for answering my Agricola/Caverna relates Qs! Very helpful insights :) I really enjoy listening to you both talking about boardgames. You have a great sense of humour and chemistry between yourselves, as well as a wealth of BG experience and knowledge which is interesting to learn about. I would be interested to see your respective BG collections in closer detail yes. Happy holidays, All the best David
Appreciate the kind words! We plan to do some "collection tour" videos this next year, ideally filming them when we are together in person. Happy gaming! 🎄🎆 -Ryan
Feel your pain about the plays guys. Work and kids definitely play into simpler/faster games. I try for one game a week that I really like, and the rest are all family and kids game plays. The sports games I like are "Eleven" by Portal games is fairly good. Blitz Bowl by games workshop. And baseball highlights. Bounced hard off football highlights though. Good luck on the football game design. Don't give up! The best snack for me is peanut M&Ms.
Thanks! Eleven intrigues me, though I heard kind of mixed responses to it. Looking forward to seasons of life that may have more time for gaming and game design! -Ryan
Good question! Might add it to the list for next year, but I'll give a brief (maybe not-so-brief haha) answer here. There were definitely a few factors that played into us starting the channel. One is the fact that I have watched a lot of board gaming UA-cam channels going all the way back to 2009, so I have a lot of familiarity with the space and how we might approach having our own channel. Another big factor is that we already had experience making UA-cam content. I had been making content for game designers on Ludo Lodge and Daniel had been doing tech/product reviews and tutorials on Daniel Langewisch. And I was piggybacking on my wife having a lot of the equipment from her doing UA-cam for her Fragile Glory Impressions art business. So we felt we had a good understanding of making content and general UA-cam strategy. As I've had kids, it got me thinking about the possibility of a board gaming channel someday (I actually came up with the Rolls in the Family name before Daniel and I even talked about it). But then things kind of aligned with Daniel getting tired of his own channel and having an interest in doing something new, and us realizing that our skills/interests could complement each other well (Daniel does all the video editing and I tend to do planning/strategy/website/etc). We talked and planned for about a month before launching the channel, and ultimately decided it was feasible for us to post a video per week (a lot of work on top of full time jobs and everything else with our families haha, but feasible). And here we are almost 2 years later with almost 100 videos posted! Still enjoying it and excited about the future of the channel. Thanks for watching! 🙂 -Ryan
@@RollsInTheFamilywow thanks for the detailed response! That’s really cool, I guess having a background in content creation/video editing made it an easier decision than completely starting from 0. I enjoy your formats; the back and forth nature and brotherly ribbing makes things casual and fun even if it’s a remote conversation. Thanks for all the content and looking forward to more!
Enjoy both PUSH and LLAMA as light games that work well up to 6 players but haven't tried LLAMA Dice yet -- have heard good things about it though! -Ryan
Hmm, I think pretzels or pocky are my favorite gaming snack
I don't think I have enough self control with pocky. 😂 -Ryan
@@RollsInTheFamily I have not tried animal crackers but that sounds great
I liked this, I didnt ask any questions, because I dont recall seeing the notification. But I like the Q&A you did here
You can just ask double the questions next time! 😉 -Ryan
Thanks for answering my Agricola/Caverna relates Qs! Very helpful insights :) I really enjoy listening to you both talking about boardgames. You have a great sense of humour and chemistry between yourselves, as well as a wealth of BG experience and knowledge which is interesting to learn about.
I would be interested to see your respective BG collections in closer detail yes.
Happy holidays, All the best
David
Appreciate the kind words! We plan to do some "collection tour" videos this next year, ideally filming them when we are together in person. Happy gaming! 🎄🎆
-Ryan
Ezra and Nehemiah is an amazing game by Garphill Games.
I've heard good things about it! -Ryan
Feel your pain about the plays guys. Work and kids definitely play into simpler/faster games. I try for one game a week that I really like, and the rest are all family and kids game plays.
The sports games I like are "Eleven" by Portal games is fairly good. Blitz Bowl by games workshop. And baseball highlights. Bounced hard off football highlights though. Good luck on the football game design. Don't give up! The best snack for me is peanut M&Ms.
Thanks! Eleven intrigues me, though I heard kind of mixed responses to it. Looking forward to seasons of life that may have more time for gaming and game design! -Ryan
@RollsInTheFamily If you can get past the atrocious rule books (yes books) for Eleven, there is a good game in there. Hehe
I highly recommend Bottom of the 9th for a fun 2p baseball themed game. Also, great episode!
Thanks for the recommendation! -Ryan
Pretzels and gummy bears are my snack for board games
I've never been big on gummy bears or jelly beans but I know lots of people love them haha. -Ryan
Cool video, great to hear how you guys got started in the hobby! Not sure if it's been asked before, but why did you decide to start a UA-cam channel?
Good question! Might add it to the list for next year, but I'll give a brief (maybe not-so-brief haha) answer here.
There were definitely a few factors that played into us starting the channel. One is the fact that I have watched a lot of board gaming UA-cam channels going all the way back to 2009, so I have a lot of familiarity with the space and how we might approach having our own channel.
Another big factor is that we already had experience making UA-cam content. I had been making content for game designers on Ludo Lodge and Daniel had been doing tech/product reviews and tutorials on Daniel Langewisch. And I was piggybacking on my wife having a lot of the equipment from her doing UA-cam for her Fragile Glory Impressions art business. So we felt we had a good understanding of making content and general UA-cam strategy.
As I've had kids, it got me thinking about the possibility of a board gaming channel someday (I actually came up with the Rolls in the Family name before Daniel and I even talked about it). But then things kind of aligned with Daniel getting tired of his own channel and having an interest in doing something new, and us realizing that our skills/interests could complement each other well (Daniel does all the video editing and I tend to do planning/strategy/website/etc).
We talked and planned for about a month before launching the channel, and ultimately decided it was feasible for us to post a video per week (a lot of work on top of full time jobs and everything else with our families haha, but feasible).
And here we are almost 2 years later with almost 100 videos posted! Still enjoying it and excited about the future of the channel. Thanks for watching! 🙂
-Ryan
@@RollsInTheFamilywow thanks for the detailed response! That’s really cool, I guess having a background in content creation/video editing made it an easier decision than completely starting from 0.
I enjoy your formats; the back and forth nature and brotherly ribbing makes things casual and fun even if it’s a remote conversation. Thanks for all the content and looking forward to more!
Glad to hear our brotherly poking fun and banter is more a pro than an annoyance. 😂 -Ryan
Don't LLAMA Dice vs PUSH?
Enjoy both PUSH and LLAMA as light games that work well up to 6 players but haven't tried LLAMA Dice yet -- have heard good things about it though! -Ryan
Is it okay for vegetarians to eat animal crackers?
Certainly seems like a gray area to me! 🤔 -Ryan
@@RollsInTheFamily someone already asked the question about tips for starting a gaming group. 😀