Shinobi Clans named 2nd best game of Gen Con 2014 in podcast

This made my day! The new podcast episode of Rolling Dice & Taking Names asked noted board game reviewer Lance Myxter from UndeadViking Videos about his three favorite games of Gen Con 2014.

And he places Shinobi Clans at #2, and says things like:

The game that surprised the hell out of me was Shinobi Clans. [...] That's a brilliant game.

and

Shinobi Clans is an excellent, fast-playing, serpentine-drafting [game].

Mr UndeadViking also gets props from me because he can pronounce my name very accurately. Plus, he says I have wild hair, which - coming from a viking - I count as high praise.

Give it a listen at 0:54:25:

http://www.rolldicetakenames.com/2014/09/rdtn-episode-46-days-of-wonder-teaching-games-five-tribes-merger-and-the-undead-viking.html?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=rolldicetakenames

Shinobi Clans in The Geek Allstars podcast

This podcast episode is very important simply because W. Eric Martin of BGG boardgames news fame reminds me that he still owes me twenty euros. (Eric, I think we're good - you paid me back in dollars.)

Also, he put Shinobi Clans on #2 of his top ten games to try at Gen Con 2014 list.
And he says "Kind of reminiscent of what Brad does with Level99, but… more blood!" which I consider high praise.

http://thegeekallstars.libsyn.com/episode-81-gen-con-2014-top-11-to-try-and-top-11-to-buy-with-special-gues-w-eric-martin-from-bgg-news

The Shinobi Clans talk starts at 1:16:50.

Shinobi Clans in The 20 Minutes of Filler Podcast

Jason and Andy from The 20 Minutes of Filler Podcast talk about some of the excitement left over from Gen Con 2014 in their 26th episode.

One of them declares Shinobi Clans his surprise game of Gen Con, gives a great overview of the gameplay and says some really nice things about it:

I was sort of blown away!

The art is gorgeous. [...] The art sort of reminds me of Ninja Scroll but water colored.

We played two full games of it [...] right in a row. [...] It plays super-fast but there's so many mind-games going on during that game [...] There's a lot of like second-guessing all your opponents and it plays super-fast [...] I need to get my own copy of it!

http://www.buzzsprout.com/20526/198304-episode-26-con-crud

The Shinobi Clans talk starts at 16:50.

Blue Peg, Pink Peg Gen Con 2014 Preview Podcast

They say: "It's just a really neat deduction game with some really interesting mechanics..."

The Shinobi Clans talk starts at 18:50

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamepodcastepisode/123607/episode-27-splendor-blueprints-gen-con-preview-and