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Summer Ludens
Yesterday, my car thermometer clocked 104°. Granted, our car is black, which means it regularly measures temperatures about ten degrees too warm, but still, that’s too damn hot.
Like everybody else descended from pioneers who decided to settle in the desert, we’re always on the lookout for ways to beat the heat. Our answer, like our answer to every other apprehension, has been board games. What follows are the ten titles that are helping my family cope with the Great American Bake-Off.
Space-Cast! #47. Bun Bangers
Hot Streak! Off-brand mascots and gambling degeneracy have never been more in fashion. For today’s Space-Cast!, we’re joined by Jon Perry to discuss his mascot-racing board game, its connections to the digital collection UFO 50, and the particulars of adaptation and artistic medium. Now that’s a mouthful!
Listen here or download here. Timestamps can be found after the jump.
Ready Set Brat
How has it come to this? You’ve lost your house. Your family. The bank has issued a repo order on your car. Credit cards? Forget about it. You’re the first person in your state to hold a credit score below 300. Thank goodness you still have a few bucks in your pocket. The bounce is coming, you can feel it. Sure, every casino ejects you on sight, but there’s one last hope for salvation:
Off-brand mascot racing.
This is Hot Streak, a game with a premise so weird and wild that I’d be drawn into its orbit even if it hadn’t been designed by Jon Perry. But like Time Barons, Scape Goat, Air, Land, & Sea, Spots, and a good number of titles in the faux-retro collection UFO 50, it was indeed designed by Jon Perry — and I can safely say it’s the only game in existence where a man in a hot dog suit might trample a foam angler fish to death by running backwards on a racetrack.
SPACE-BIFF! 