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Quentin from the Goulburn Valley Gamers Guild about the 2024 Shepparcon

This interview first aired on Thursday the 18th of July, 2024 on ONE FM 98.5 Shepparton.

One FM breakfast announcer Plemo interviews Quentin Son from the Goulburn Valley Gamers Guild who reviews the 2024 Shepparcon boardgame convention.

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Duration:: 13m
Broadcast on:: 21 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

- You're listening to a one FM podcast. - Quinton sung from the Golden Valley Gamers Guild joins me now. How are you, Quinton? - I'm good, thanks, Climo. How are you? - Not too bad. Once I turned your microphone up. Now, shepicon 2024, talk to me. - It's done, it's dusted, and it was a great weekend from what we could gather. - Good weekend? - It was fantastic. I've been tired though, it was some very long days there, but no, everyone had a great time from what we told us. - Yep. So you had a good showing? - We had a great showing, 176 tickets sold, and 164 through the door. We always get a few that sort of can't make it for various reasons or end up not showing. So, but it was really good, our biggest one yet. - Now, I saw a few pictures on social media, and our kids were building something there. - They were, they were building a really fun game that I've played quite a number of times called Rhino Hero, and you're basically stacking up some cards to try and get it as tall as possible, and be the person highest up on it before it falls down, which it will eventually. - Yeah, so that's sort of like building a house of cards, is it? - Yeah, pretty much. Actually, except not having to balance them together, there's like bent pieces which are put underneath the floors and make it a bit easier for the kids. - Oh, that's cheating. It is, but the kids don't throw them as much. - Yeah, well, that's a good point. No dummy spits. - No, not as many. It's a very well played copy of it in our library that gets broken out every single game day, so. - It must be popular. - It's very popular. - What's called Rhino Stack? Rhino Hero. - Rhino Hero. - Yep. - Now, you had an 80s night. Now, did lots of people dress up, or was it just the one person who had the idea? - No, a few. I think we had about 25 to 30 people dress up. - Oh, really? - Yeah, and we gave out a prize for the best, best dressed 80s person, and then it went to a, one of our members actually, who was so dedicated. He shaved his beard and mustache into that 80s style cop. - Really? - Yeah, it was dedication. - Oh my goodness. He must be out to impress some kind of girl, doing something like that. - Uh, yeah, who was married? So, I don't know. I think he was just trying to get the shock horror value. - Okay. - Yeah, it was very, very much 80s dirty mustache. - Yeah. Now, blood on the watchtower. - Close, blood on the clocktower. - Blood on the clocktower. I was so close, man. I looked it up and everything. Well, that was the last time we spoke. So, it's been a while. Now, you had somebody, a storyteller come up for that. How did that go? - Oh, that was, that went really well. It was really well received. I think Jeff said he was the guy who came up and ran it for us, and he ran six or seven sessions over the course of the court. - Yeah. - And they were all booked out, like, full every time. - Yeah. - And everyone had a great time. There were some double crosses in there, people playing the both sides of the game, and people walking out going, "I had no idea that you were on the bad team, "not on the good team." So. - And they probably walk out going, "I will never trust you in real life again." - Yeah, there might have been a few comments like that. - So, done and dusted, successful. I'm assuming that the plan is to have a Shepicon 2025. - The plan is, most definitely, to have a Shepicon 2025. - After his reassess and reflect on everything that's gone on, I'm glad it was really, really successful. But let's talk about, Golden Valley Gamers Guild. Something's going on tonight. - It is our fortnightly game meet, which happens at the Pepper Mill, from between 6.30 and 7. - Yeah. - You can rock up, depending if you want a meal. And we, a group of us, varies in size. We turn up and we bring down some board games and play some board games down there. - What will be the smorgasbord on offer tonight? And I'm not talking about the food. I'm talking about the games. - Well, the food at the Pepper Mill is pretty set. It doesn't change much. - Yeah, it tastes all right. - It's standard, it's good. I always like it. That's why we go there. And there they look after as well. I think we'll probably be bringing a few from the library, maybe some easier ones. There's a produce game developer, an Australian one called Joey Games, and he makes some really nice games. They're sort of not too hard. Like my eight year old, actually my eight year old can play them. - Yeah. - And they're ones called Scribley Girl. - Scribley Gum, like as in Bubble Gum. - As in like, almost like Bubble Gum. And you're basically an Australian caterpillar and you've got to work your way around the little sheet of paper you have to eat enough food. - That sounds like a book that's basically - It does. - the hungry caterpillar. - It does sound like it. - Is there like a correlation? Can you see, well, obviously the inspiration might be lifted in that direction? Or did he grow up on an orchard? - I'm not sure, actually. - Oh, I know it's a really, really fun little game. Doesn't take too long. You can play with as many or as you can play it by yourself, actually. - Yeah. - Or with, it goes up to as many people as you want. - Yeah, so when you say as many as you want, is it? - Well, not to plug another con, but you know, be nice to them. So PlayCon was the biggest board game dedicated con in Australia that was held last weekend. - Okay. - And they ran a mega game. And I don't know how many people they had, but it would have been over 50 or 60 playing. - Where did they play that? Where did that go? - That was up in Sydney. - That was in Sydney. - Everyone at the convention centers. - Well, it's hard to compete with Sydney and Shepherd and isn't it? - Well, they do have a few more people. - Yeah. - Is Sydney then Shepherd and so... - Just a million or so. - Well, I think they had over 400 people and we had 164. So I think that's a pretty good showing for Shepherd. - Yeah. - Yeah, yeah, as far as ratio goes, that's probably really, really good. - So that's one of the games that you're playing tonight. What else will you be playing? - We'll bring down the usuals. There's a couple of nice little card games. One's called Scout where you've got to get runs and two of a kind, three of a kind and try and beat each other with those. Bit of a spin on those kind of games. And then there's another one we play quite a bit called Skull, which is a bit of a bluffing game, which is always a bit of fun. Just quick little games that, you know, after dinner, if you don't want to hang around for too long but you want to get something quick in it, we can get through them out and have a bit of fun. - Need a quick fix? We're going to go to a song we're talking with Q from the Golden Valley Gamers Guild, a 98.5, one FM. ♪ Wakey wakey GV, it's time for Reiki ♪ ♪ 98.5, one FM ♪ ♪ We love our sponsors, especially this one ♪ - SDP Tax has been your trusted local accounting firm and has been proudly helping people just like you across the Golden Valley and beyond for over two decades. Are you happy with your accountant? Are you certain that you are receiving maximum tax deductions? 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What is that? - That little green army man, isn't it? - Well, no, it's, it was, I think the intent was Little Plastic Fellows that you're getting board games. - Yeah. - But it's a local board game store that's, unfortunately we don't have a shop front that I'm a part of, that's run out of one of our garages. And we, if you need a board game, let us know. So we, Doc can get in all the popular board games, what board games you've never heard about. And also, one of the things we try to do in association with the Goblin Valley Gamers Guild is we run board game days at the Pepper Mill, where we hire at one of their function rooms. From 10 till 10, you come down and play some board games. - Yeah. - We also bring down a lot of the new releases that might have come out in the, in the meantime, between the two game, the game days. - Yeah. - It's about every month. - Yeah. - So the next one we have is on the 1st of September. - Yep. So let's just rewind a little bit. Is there a dedicated games board game shop in Shepperton? - Not dedicated, I know there was a few shops that will stock a small selection. - Yeah, yeah. - But the, there's nothing that's just purely dedicated and will stock a huge range. So currently our, our inventory's about 240 different board games. - Not 240 board games, 240 different. - Different board games. And that, that's post Sheppicon. So the, the store goes down to Sheppicon. - Yeah. - And sets up in there and you know, is there for people who want to buy a board game, play board gaming. Oh, I really want that one, it was really good. So that's post a big con. And so we're looking at restocking soon and getting a whole heap new more in. And also the all the regulars that we tend to introduce people to. - Yeah. - It's a lot of really good introductory games. We're like, oh, play this, this is really good. And we try to keep them on hand as well. - Yeah. - So we'll have a few more to choose from. - So if somebody's looking for a board game and they can't find it, you guys, that little plastic fellas might be the people to contact you got your finger on the pulse of board game. - I do, yeah, we do. Dave, who's my partner, he does a heap of research and is always looking at the latest award winning games and everything to make sure they stock the right stuff. - Where do you get that information? Just off the internet or is it? - Yeah. So off the internet, there's a lot of actual board game award shows over in Europe that hand out awards and there's all in America as well, I think. And so we keep an eye on those and new developers and there's heaps of reviews that people do now that we keep an eye on to try and figure out which ones we're going to stock or which ones we think our members will be interested in as well. - Yeah. - So if they go to littleplasticfellas.com.au or our Facebook page, Little Plastic Fellas. And they can just ask a query there and we can respond to it and we'll sort you out. - Yep. How long has that been around? - I think it's been running the store now for about four or five years. And I've just bought in recently. So just to something as a side hustle for me. - So this isn't something that was dreamt up yesterday. - No. - This is something that you guys have recognised a long time ago and gone, well, if we don't bring it in, no, I'm will. - Well, that's the thing, yeah. Well, there's all sorts of passion for us. We wanna be able to get the board games locally. As people who want them, we're like, well, let's provide it for people. 'Cause, you know, everyone likes their local board games dealer. - Yeah, well, there you go, there you go. So that's on the 1st of September at the pepper mill. What do I miss that on? - At 10 o'clock and it goes till 10 in the evening. - So that must be on a weekend. - Yeah, on a Sunday. - On a Sunday. - So it's usually either late the last Sunday or the first Sunday we try and make them of the month to make them a bit easier to remember. - 10 to 10. - 10 till 10. - That sounds like stuff's getting serious if you're a lot in 12 hours. - Yeah, yeah, we'll usually get about four or five games in or, you know, one bigger game and a couple of smaller ones if you're playing the really, really big ones. - Yep, yep. All right, well, thank you for coming in today and making us aware of that. So on the 1st of September and tonight at the pepper mill. - At the pepper mill. - At 6 p.m. - At 6 p.m. - It's just all kinds of games come along. - Yeah, it's just come along. We're sort of in the back area near the, near the kids playground. - Yeah. - There'll be a group of us sitting there or try and remember to bring down the banner. I always forget. - Always forget. - Yep. - Bit of blatant self-promotion, mate. You need to let people know where you are. - We do. - They might be just someone pulling in for a physio after work after a hard day laying bricks and going, "Oh, there's a board game over there." - We've had a few people come up and ask us what we're doing, so that's one way to do it. - And how's that normally turn out? Do they? - We, oh, not many people sit down. They sometimes, they feel a bit awkward, but we definitely invite them. We're more than welcoming and happy to teach you any kind of game we got. - Yep. Well, thank you very much for coming in today, Quinton. So you've got the Golden Valley Gamers Guild on Facebook. Is there a website? - There's a website, gvgg.org.au, I think it is. - No worries. And I can tell you folks that they're fairly responsive if you send them a message at the Golden Valley Gamers Guild. Just don't do it when Chapercon's on. - No, we get a bit distracted. - Thanks a lot, mate. - You've been listening to a one FM podcast.