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#246 - Daybreak is Optimistic and Intriguing

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🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

On this climate-friendly episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt take half an hour to amble through their first play of Daybreak - the latest co-op save-the-world-like from Pandemic designer Matt Leacock, new designer Matteo Menapace, and publisher CMYK games of Monikers, Wavelength, and Lacuna fame. A stacked lineup, for sure; but what do we think of the game? Find out more by having a little listen...

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0:00.0

Hello everybody and welcome to the very 246th episode of the

0:15.0

Shut Up and Sit Down podcast, a podcast about board games and board games and

0:18.0

board games and board games and I'm joined today by Matthew Lees who's on my sofa.

0:23.2

I am, it's the human board game here in fleshy form.

0:26.7

Wow.

0:27.7

I've got bits, I've got cards, I've got all of the rules laid out in front of you and the rules today are we're going to talk

0:34.0

about board games. We're going to about three board games today. I'm sort of

0:37.5

thinking a lot actually before we get into what games we're talking about is like

0:40.6

would you rather be like a man who's made of like

0:42.7

board game components that are like stuffed inside you like a scarecrow or would you

0:46.0

rather be sort of like a board game robot that's kind of plasticy and you know

0:49.6

crunchy do you know what I mean yes so it's like are you visibly a board game component or is it that like in like in Terminator when they they pull back his skin and he's a robot underneath it's like you're just lots of little, I'm imagining like

1:03.7

the ludo plastic pieces, like a little like wire pieces.

1:06.7

And like dice. Yeah. I think I'd probably go for the latter, even though it's horrifying and at some point you might have an accident

1:14.6

that involves doctors being like oh my gosh the inside of this man is just pieces.

1:19.1

Do you think as soon as you're perceived you die? I don't know maybe you just you just as soon as they

1:24.4

realize that you become lumpy in a way that you obviously are but yeah I don't

1:28.2

like sort of like two kids stuffed in a trench coat. Yes I don't want to think

1:32.2

about this really. No okay well I'm glad we sorted that out.

1:34.4

Yeah on this podcast we're going to talk about just one game we're going to talk about daybreak

1:39.2

from CMYK a game about solving climate change are we going to solve climate change in this

1:43.1

podcast? No, but we're going to try and explain this game to you. Let's go!

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