Brendan is back! After an unintended six-week hiatus, Brendan returns with the second half of season six, starting with a summary of his June game plays. Join us, won’t you?
Pick Up & Deliver 539: Top of the Stack, June 2023
Brendan shares his Top of the Stack list, his recent game play news, and his plans for next month. Join us, won’t you?
Pick Up & Deliver 532: Top of the Stack, May 2023
Pick Up & Deliver 532: Top of the Stack, May 2023 – Brendan talks about his game plays in April 2023, and his plans for May. Join us, won’t you?
Pick Up & Deliver 526: Top of the Stack, April 2023
Pick Up & Deliver 526: Top of the Stack, April 2023 – Brendan shares his game play experiences from March of 2023. Join us, won’t you?
Pick Up & Deliver 515: Top of the Stack, March 2023
Brendan shares his progress on his February goals and his plays for the month. Join us, won’t you?
Pick Up & Deliver 291: Gaming Assumptions, part 1
Pick Up & Deliver 291: Gaming Assumptions, part 1 – Brendan shares his thinking about how our assumptions of the way games will work shape our expectations and experiences of those games. Join us, won’t you?
Pick Up & Deliver 246: My top games for the 10 additional mechanisms Kris Hickman suggested (part 3)
Pick Up & Deliver 246: My top games for the 10 additional mechanisms Kris Hickman suggested (part 3) – Brendan returns to the well for the third time to talk about more game mechanisms and his favorite example of each.
Pick Up & Deliver 244: My top games for Nick Shaw’s top 10 game mechanisms (part 1)
Pick Up & Deliver 244: My top games for Nick Shaw’s top 10 game mechanisms (part 1)- Inspired by Nick Shaw’s comment on a Boardgamegeek thread, Brendan shares his top game in each of Nick Shaw’s top 10 game mechanisms.
Pick Up & Deliver 182: Heavy Complexity (Depth vs. Complexity, part 1)
Pick Up & Deliver 182: Heavy Complexity (Depth vs. Complexity, part 1) – Brendan discusses how the concepts of Complexity and Depth help us organize games and understand why they are fun or difficult or both. The series starts with Heavy Complexity.
Pick Up & Deliver 124: Writing Better Rulebooks
Brendan shares some lessons he’s learned as he studied the particularly difficult-to-parse rulebook for A Handful of Stars. Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective – Jack The Ripper and West End Mysteries A Handful of Stars A Few Acres of Snow Mythotopia Dominion Marvel Legendary