The Victory Point Podcast

As you can tell from our last post, SaltCON was a great time for gaming in Salt Lake City. But another great part of the weekend for me was meeting Matthew Fisk who does a video podcast called The Victory Point.

The Victory Point is a video podcast that teaches how to play board games with detailed video instruction. If you’re familiar with our video reviews of board games, you’ll know that we don’t go into all the details and rules of how to play a game. Rather we just give enough for viewers to get a feel for the game and then describe what we like about the game.

Matthew on the other hand dives into the details. He does a great job giving detailed explanations of how to play the games. And while it is a podcast and you could just listen along, it’s actually more than just audio. It’s full of images that show the components and step through the game play. It’s also segmented into chapters so it’s very easy to skip to the exact part that you’re interested in.

One that I particularly like is the 7 Wonders episode. Prior to watching this enhanced video podcast I had heard a lot about 7 Wonders. However, when I’d look at pictures of the game it looked like there was just a ton going on. But then I found The Victory Point podcast and immediately watched the 7 Wonders episode. And with how well it was presented, the game became very easy to tackle.

So when I had the chance to finally play 7 Wonders, I felt very familiar with the way to play the game at the outset. And with the way the podcast is broken down into chapters of less than a minute each, if we had questions, we could quickly cue up that chapter for clarity.

After understanding the 7 Wonders game so well from The Victory Point podcast, I made sure to watch others. And all of them have been great.

The funny thing is that when I met Matthew and his wife at SaltCON on Friday, I didn’t have any idea who they were and vice a versa. I merely saw that they had a game of Ghost Stories set up and ready to play, so I asked if they wouldn’t mind if I joined in an learned the game. I had heard Ghost Stories was a great cooperative game, so I was anxious to give it a try. And when I saw it out with, it was the perfect chance.

It wasn’t until near the end of the game that I found out that Matthew was the man behind The Victory Point podcast and he made the connection of myself with The Board Game Family. And he and his wife are super nice and they both love board games. In fact, his wife gave him the tickets to SaltCON and the weekend stay for his birthday. How cool is that?

But once you make new connections, you can’t just stop with one game. On Saturday we got together again to take our first foray into Kingdom Builder.

If you haven’t listened to an episode of The Victory Point podcast, we’d highly recommend you check it out. You can download them iTunes or check them out directly online.