Episode 52 – Dune Imperium

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In this episode Bruce & Josh take a deep dive into Dune Imperium by Dire Wolf Studios. This coveted intellectual property along with the unique combination of deck building by the creators of CLANK! and worker placement make this game an interesting one to play. Listen in to this complete deep dive into our experiences for your benefit. To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game ImpactLike the Facebook Page: Board Game ImpactInstagram: @boardgameimpactEmail: [e-mail] Audio Transcription (Generated by AI) 00:00:08 - 00:05:03 In this episode of board game impact the spice must flow as we talk about dune imperium. Welcome back to another episode of impact. As always i am bruce. I'm jordan. Joined by and this is josh. Well josh they say that fears the mind killer but so far getting started is thrown me off. I think it's just because we're very excited about this game and talk about it. Because i know you and i both had some anticipation with it. But before we get into that if this is your first episode of board game impact what you're here for is we look at games through educational lenses. We both work fulltime and higher education and we apply those lenses to unpack games and gaming experiences for you and your benefit so by listening to this is gonna be a deep dive into dune. Imperium and so Josh what do you want to say to kick us off a little bit. Yeah bruce. I was very excited about this game. I definitely had my acquisition disorder All a buzz So love the dune franchise Barracks cited to see this movie. When it finally comes out please. Yes at some point But you know. I fell in love. I actually came late to the dune party. I kinda picked up the books. Probably about two or three years ago And just absolutely fell in love because it's a phenomenal especially the first book The the main book dune For listeners who aren't really aware dune imperium is set in the dune universe series of novels by frank. Herbert sifi Political intrigue drama type series. That is absolutely fantastic So very very excited to play this really excited to talk about it and and get some thoughts. Yeah and so Dean premium is made by designed by paldon and it was put out by dire wolf who you might know for doing some pretty great things over with some digital app adaptations so they did the digital adaptations of route but also this is the team that brought clank together. So there's a little bit deck building in this. Some really cool things and josh was saying a little bit about his position -ality so like our lenses that are getting applied to this. I was later to the dune thing too. I honestly picked up a copy. Abdoun my local like half price books for like five bucks two years ago. Because i'm like. I need to read this. And then when i found out the movie was coming out and was like blown away by the trailer owes like i need to read this and so i read the book and then a month before the movie is supposed to come out. Movie comes out next year. So i'm a little caught up now but honestly back in the day josh before i ever really knew. What dune was things like that. I was really into the real time strategy games and like command and conquer right or red alert. But i also really like dune. Two thousand which was based on the dune universe and these different houses vying for control. Did you ever play that. I did not. It's pretty cool. It's exactly like command and conquer and things like that. Where you have your factions. You build the buildings and then you're trying to go out which later evolved into things like starcraft which took the world by storm but yeah these things were first starcraft. Just put that out. There did not never never played any of that. Okay look that up yeah. It's pretty cool. The graphics today's standard. Not that great. But if you like the lower of dune sand worms. I knew what a sand worm was new kinds of stuff back. Then and so.