Board All The Time

Hey hey BATT Family! Episode 31 is here for your auditory enjoyment. This one is another episode that we had way too much fun recording.  We are lucky enough to be joined by D. Brad Talton, President and Owner of Level 99 Games, on the show this time around. What you are hearing is a much smaller subset of the conversations that we had with him because we got pretty deep into the inside baseball of the industry and how things get d...

Hey hey BATT Family! Sorry to overload you with top ten lists recently, but here is Episode 30! As it's a multiple of five it is a top ten list and this week's episode is about Simultaneous Action games. This was recorded at Gen Con on July 30th, 2025 in the BATT hotel room, so it's a bit more echoey than usual. This topic was brought by the guest of the show, Derian, who has been a good friend of ours for years and runs all of the...

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to our LIVE Top Ten Episode! This time Scott, Jason, and Mark are all running down their top ten games of all time! This was recorded live at Victory Roll Cafe on December 17th, 2025 and so it's going to have the ambient audio of a live cafe in the background. This was an absolute blast for us to do and we had such a great vibe of people coming and going. This is mostly unedited, so all the ums, ahs, an...

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to another top ten list! This time Mark and Scott are running down their best games of 2025! This was a great episode to record and it was amazing to realize how many games that we had played that released this year for us to actually be able to do this list. There are some really excellent games here, especially ones that we weren't expecting to be on at all. We hope you have a great time with this one...

Hey hey BATT Family! Heck Yeah Episode 29! Scott and I had a great time recording this one, but it was a bummer Jason couldn't join us since he was sick on the night of recording. We decided to bring back the Mechanics Shop and discuss one of our favourite mechanisms: Tile Laying! We also got to have a long conversation about one of Mark's favourite games for Why Did It Take So Long to Play That. And finally we wrap this one up wit...

Hey hey BATT Family! We are so excited to be back in your ears with Episode 27. Featuring the inimitable Chris Yi from the Dice Tower, we got to have our full episode with him in every segment. We got to talk what it's like to go back and focus on older games, try out a new version of what Mark considers a classic, and just riff off of each other a lot. We had a wonderful time with this recording session and we hope you enjoy it to...

Hey hey BATT Family! The first major episode of Season Two is here! This was by far the biggest episode and most complex edit I've had to do yet. We have a great conversation with Curt Covert from Smirk and Dagger games for this episode and we break down the way they've seen the hobby change in the 22 years of their existence. Jason also has his first deployment of a game at Mark and Scott for Why Did I Play That and for the first ...

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to this Kickstarter preview for Honor's End! The new 1-4 player co-op deckbuilding game from the mad scientists over at IV Studios, this is a beast of a game that has both an adventure mode as well as a full campaign. Today we are going to be specifically previewing that adventure mode and talking about how well the game plays at the 2-4 player ranges. Featuring wonderful art, you feel pulled into the w...

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to this Kickstarter preview for Rolling in Wonderland! The new 2-4 player dice placement and set collection game from Bellows Intent and Borogove Games, this is mid-lightweight game where you'll be rolling a handful of dice and triggering all sorts of asymmetric abilities. Today we are going to be covering everything the game is about as well as touching on some of the changes you'll be seeing if you've...

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to Season Two of the podcast! We've got a whole slew of cool things planned for the season and we wanted to ease you in with the reintroduction of the BATT hosts, this time featuring Jason! We'll be releasing Episode 26 on Friday because we didn't want to overload you with four different episodes on the same day. We hope you're as excited as we are for the content we've got coming though. And if you are...

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to this review for Squirrel Away! Squirrel Away is a 3-6 player bluffing game that was provided to us by the publisher Floodgate Games. It is designed by Clarence Simpson and is legitimately a wonderful game. If you like bluffing and raucous moments in party games, you've gotta look into this one. Check out the review to find out what we thought of it and let us know what you think after listening by em...

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to Episode 25, another of our top ten lists with a special guest. This time was us getting Mark's good friend Austin onto the show to discuss the Top Ten Best Games We Don't Play Anymore. It's a fun topic for people who've played as many games for as long as we have to break down. We hope that you have as good of a time with us as we had recording it. This is also an episode where, yes, we are dedicatin...

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to this review for FlipToons! FlipToons was very kindly provided to us by ThunderWorks Games and is an autobattler for 1-4 players with a playtime of around 30 minutes. It's a game with few rules and an easy teach that might be great for your next game night. Check out the review to find out what we thought of it and let us know what you think after listening by emailing us at boardallthetimegaming@gmai...

Hey hey BATT Family! Thanks for the wait on this main episode to come out! August, even removing Gen Con from the equation, turned into (politely) a lot for the entire BATT crew. Between medical scares and surgeries, job changes, and all manner of other things it just became the month where we ended up needing to take the break. But we're stoked you're still with us and this episode is a lot of fun! We have some serious ups and dow...

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to the review for Endangered (Second Edition). This was provided to us by Grand Gamers Guild in support of their new Kickstarter campaign for Endangered: Australia, which goes live on September 2nd. Endangered is a co-op game for 1-4 players and takes about an hour per session to play through trying to save an endangered species in scenario based gameplay. Spoiler alert, we really enjoyed this one. Chec...

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to the final Odds and Ends episode of Season 1! You read that right. We're going to be giving a lot more detail a the beginning of the episode, but basically we're going to be taking a small break. The first few minutes of the episode cover this, but if you want to have a quick bite to read, here you go:

Through the month of August you'll still be getting new episodes (24 and 25), new reviews, everythin...

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to our series of reviews for the brand new, small box IV Studios games. In this review we'll be taking a look at Pillars of Fate. Pillars of Fate is the new 2 player only game in the Veiled Fate series of games from IV. This game is a lane battler that will have players placing cards within 3 lanes over the course of 3 rounds called ages. This game will be using all of the characters as introducted betw...

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to our series of reviews for the brand new, small box IV Studios games. In this review we'll be taking a look at Graft, the new small box drafting and push your luck game from IV Studios set in the world of another of their games, the soon to be released Tend. While you can very much see the threads connecting the two games together if you've played them - essentially the card rows you'll be building in...