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Quentin from the Goulburn Valley Gamers Guild about the 2024 Shepparcon

This interview first aired on Thursday the 4th of July, 2024 on ONE FM 98.5 Shepparton.

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

Shepparcon is at The Terminus Hotel in Shepparton this Friday, Saturday and Sunday the 5th of July to the 7th of July, 2024.

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Duration:
17m
Broadcast on:
06 Jul 2024
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mp3
- You're listening to a one FM podcast. - We have a cue from the Shepherd in Game is Guild. Hey, go mate. - Good morning, mate. Yeah, good, thanks, self. - Yeah, not too bad. Now, look, it's been a long time since we spoke. I think last time we spoke I was right about a sold out event around this time last year, I think. - Yeah, it was about the time of ShepherdCon last year and we sold out last year and we're on our way this year, hopefully. - Now, you're telling me the entire venue is booked out. - Yep, the terminus have closed down folks. - They shut down folks. - We've closed the place down for us and we're hoping to get about 200 people through the doors over the weekend. - Yeah, and you're well over three quarters of the ticket sold. - We are, we sold about 165, I think, off the top of my head. And so there's about 35 left. You can buy them at the door through our ticketing site, which is Humanitix. - Yep. - And everyone's welcome. Come down, come through, play some games. - Yep, so before we talk about this year, so how did it go last year? - It went really well. I think everyone had a good time. The venue was really happy with us. They had a great time as well, 'cause a lot of people who just playing games all weekend and we had a lot of food and drank a lot of Coke, no sugar. - Yeah. - And yeah, we got good reviews out of it. They had a great time playing a lot of games. - Now, were there any dummy spits by people, the cards not falling their way? Was anyone cracking the sads for not winning? - I don't remember any dummy spits. I do remember one thing where I was playing a game with my friends and the board game's quite heavy. It weighs about 35 kilos. - Yes, yeah, I remember that. - It collapsed. - It collapsed. - And there's actually footage of me and my mate underneath the table trying to hold the thing up and fix it. - So it collapsed mid game? - The table collapsed mid game because it was so heavy. - Okay, I would put that down as a disaster for a board game. - Well, yeah, it was. We managed to, few people hold it up in the meantime and managed to save it and keep going. - Yeah. Now, what games have you got going on down there this year? - Well, everyone's bringing their own, but we actually have a few events this year, which will be, I think, exciting for a few people. We have a number of sessions of a game called Blood on the Clock Tower, which is a social deduction game. - Yes, I looked that up on YouTube and I had a watch and I thought, "You seek puppies!" - Oh, it's, why 11 year old plays it? And she loves it. It's great. We have a comedian called Jeff Setty. He's coming up to run a few sessions for us. He's great at it. Love's doing it. - So he's like the game's master, the one that does all the talking? - Yep, so he runs it all. Love's doing it and he's very, very good at it. And everyone tends to have a great time with it. So he's running three sessions and we'll see how we go if we get a lot of demand for it. - So the way that came across to me with my research that I did on Blood on the Clock Tower, would it be fair to describe that as almost Pluto on steroids? - Yep, that's a fair description, I think, but no board. So no board, you just sit there, you've got your own, you've given a character card, or you're given who you are and you get a help sheet. And, yeah, the good guys have to find the bad guys. - Yep. - Now it says, like in the rules, it was like over, it was saying the next day. So is this a game that goes on for days? Or is that just within the game? - That's just within the game, yeah. So the games go for about, oh, trying to think, probably about an hour or two, depending on how many players. And you can play, can play up to 21 players, I think it is. - All right, yeah. - I've never actually played it. It's not, I mean, it'd be fun, but my daughter always wants to play and so I'm like, oh no, you take my spot, try to be the good dad. - Try to be the good dad. - Yep. - Yeah, but do you like the game? - Well, I've never played it. Everyone I talk to raves about it. - Well, does your daughter like the game? - She loves it. So we went to Aubrey for their con up there called Humbug Con. Lisa's a lovely organizer up there. They ran three events and she had three of them and she played all of them. - Did she? - Yes, she played all three one each day and loved it. Actually, no, it was four. She played four of them, so. - Yeah, we're on. - So we've got to tell her to stop. - So once you fall down the rabbit hole with the game, you go in there. - Oh, that's like it with a lot of them. - With a lot of them. - Once you take your toe in, you're done. - So that's a competition or a tournament that you're running with? - The blood on the clock tower is just sort of a, he's running a few sessions 'cause it's the kind of game when you've got a good storyteller, they call it. It is really good. So we asked him to come up and run a few sessions for us 'cause he runs them in a number of cons. - We do have a tournament, we're doing a game called Blockus. - Yeah, what is that? I just thought of Tetris or Minecraft. - Oh, a bit of Tetris. It's a square board, four players. Every player's got different Tetris-like shapes. And you've got to place them out onto the board and block off areas, basically. - So, is that Connect 4 on steroids? - Oh my God. - Oh my God. - Not on steroids. - It's sort of a cross between Tetris and maybe Naughts and Crosses a bit. So, and then the winner is the person who blocks off the most area with their squares. - That sounds somewhat, it's, well, the way you've described it to me, that's somewhat easier to understand than blood on the clock teller. Is it easier to get into? - It's easier to understand, but it's one of those games, it's hard to master. - Oh, yeah. - Yeah, so it's easy, you just place your blocks out, but where you place them, how you place them, how you control that board is all, is one of those games, yeah. Easy to learn hard to master. - Yeah, yeah. - Basically you could be playing it in an expert at it, say if I were rocked up there and I was playing it and there's an expert sitting on the other end of the table. - Oh, they'd wipe a floor with you. - That does be playing with their food. - Yeah, pretty much. - Yeah, probably. - Not great, well, yeah. Well, there you go first. - I'm sure we'll have a few beginners if you want to come along and give it a go. - Do you have a ward for a dummy spitting? - Ah, no, we don't. (laughing) Yeah, we see the thing is most people are just sort of, whether they don't want to or they're too embarrassed to, they tend to just sort of walk away quietly. - Yeah, yeah. Then go into a Facebook post. - Yeah, a bit of Facebook post maybe. Haven't seen them yet, maybe just to their friends, I don't know. - Yeah, yeah, so you've got blood on the clock tower, you've got a tournament with blockers. So what do you mean when you say tournament? - So we're gonna run, we've got a few copies of the game and basically we'll run until we're with one player. - Yep. - And that player will get a prize. - Wait, wait. So what do you mean is there's multiple tables playing the same game? - So it's like a, look, the only way I can describe it, it's like a poker tournament with multiple tables and it just gets whittled down, whittled down, whittled down and then things get tense. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - And then, yeah, we may end up with a table flip, but maybe not. - Yeah, well. - I don't think it's, I don't think there's that much on the line though, hopefully not. - You never know, some people don't like to lose, they have to be in control of everything. - Some people do. We do try to teach people to be tolerant. - Tolerant losers. - Tolerant losers. - Well, maybe I should come 'cause then I could learn a little bit of tolerance. - Well, I think you're pretty tolerant, eh? - Oh, well, it depends who you ask. I'm fair enough, it depends who you ask. 98.5, well, if I'm live and local, we're speaking with Q, we're gonna take a quick song break and we'll be back to talk games. ♪ We love our sponsors ♪ ♪ And 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? Call SDP Tax on 1-300-436-829 and start a conversation today. SDP offer a maximum deduction guarantee. That's right, SDP guarantee that they'll find you the greatest deductions possible with no upfront fee charged. What are you waiting for? 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It looks like a bit of fine motor skills, and... - Yeah, one of our members is going to be running a super... He's calling it a Super Skills Kids event on the Saturday. - Super Skills Kids event. - Yeah, so that's three times fast. - I know, when they came up with it, I'm like, "Oh, okay, the kids hopefully will get a better than I do." 'Cause I struggled with that one. Yeah, so a couple of dexterity games that the kids are going to be playing, and I think there's some little prizes at the end of it. And then on the Sunday, there's a game called Tumbling Dice that they're going to run for the kids as well, which is another dexterity game where you've got to throw some dice down a stepped board. Hopefully, we don't throw them off the end, which is a terrible what. No, not for me. - So you've got to get them as far down the borders, but not go off the end. - Not go off the end. - And then, does it come down to the number that you've got, whoever's the furthest with the highest number? - I should be playing these games and figuring it out, but I've never played Tumbling Dice. - Haven't you? - I should have got Tim to come on and run through it. Next time I'll get him to, I'll try and convince him to come on. They're all, I'm the only one who's willing to come on radio, apparently. Hey, guys, I'm calling you out. This is Plemmo. I'm calling you out. If you're listening, you're coming down to the studio with Q and having a chat. It's that simple. So, in the Crocodile one, you're saying you're flicking a token into a hole? So, on the Super Skills Kids event, I think they're going to play game of Crocodile, which is a game on a round board where you flick a disc, a wooden disc across the board and try and get it into the hole in the center of the board. There's little pegs around it and to make it harder and your opponents' discs are there as well. So, just one of those dexterity games that kind of like, there's a lot of them around the world where they're little just flicking a disc across a board and try to beat your opponent, basically. - So, the kids stand around in a circle around it? - Yeah. So, is there a better path to the center in one of those decisions? No, it's all the same. It's exactly the same all even. Okay. And they turn and, yeah, just a bit of fun for the kids. So, these dexterity games tend to be kids block a bit more. Yeah, yeah, probably sitting down. So, last shepicon, were there many kids? Oh, I think we had about 15 or 20 kids tickets got sold. Okay. And I think we're similar amount or even not a bit more this year. Yeah. So, my kids are coming. I know that the other guild members, kids are coming. We've got a feud from around town and a few from out of town, coming, bringing their kids as well. Yeah. Yeah. And, yeah, we're happy for kids to come along. Yeah. More of them area. Got to donate them early into the gaming culture. Yep. Yep. Get them competitive. Yeah, just bring them on board. Yeah. Make them addicted to board games. Board games. Yeah. Like you. I can quit any time. It's a one. It's okay, cute. It's okay. I can quit. It's okay. It's okay. We'll see a therapist. Yeah. I'll hop through this. No, I don't need to stare at the therapist. Don't enjoy it too much. You like your addiction. Yeah, I'm just going to keep it. You're not giving it up. No, no. Whits and wages. Yes. What's that about? So, that's our Saturday night event. It's a trivia game. So, basically trivia, but with a twist. You don't get points based on your answer. Yeah, get a load of this, folks. You get points based on how many people vote for your answer. So, it's a popularity contest with you, what are wrong? It is. It's how convincing you can make your answer. Look, it doesn't have to be right. It just means how many teams vote for your answer. It's how you get the points. Yeah. Which works for some people, I think, will work for me. Yeah. Well, if you're part of a posse, I guess it works. Well, as long as your answer is convincing and you can convince everyone to vote for it, who cares. Yeah. All right. So, there you go, folks. Lies and more. Yeah. That sounds like a lot of fun. And that's taking a place on all three days. Oh, just on Saturday night? Just on Saturday night with the dress-ups. With the dress-ups, with the '80s night. Did we mention that? No, we didn't. I'd like to point out I didn't have a hand at this. But our lovely organizers. JMo and Dave decided that where '80s themes this year, which is led to some really interesting artwork, which has been really cool. Yeah, I don't like it. Yeah, yeah. Some lovely neon '80s themed. Yeah. And Saturday night is going to be an '80s dress-up night. Yeah. So, I can't promise that I'll be in '80s close. Yeah. But I know quite a few people will, and there'll be a prize for the best dressed '80s person. Yeah. So, will you be playing in nostalgic games, like Mouse Trap or those games out of the '80s? I've got too many new ones to get on a table, mate. No time for the old ones. No time for the old ones. All the new. So, it's all the new shiny. Oh, man. Q's going to have to start a museum. A gaming museum. Well, I almost got my front room done. And your wife says. Oh, she's my enabler. She's your enabler. Yeah, she's my enabler. Just throw her under the bus, mate. No, most amazing wife in the world. She's my enabler. She helps me buy my game. She's the one who's like, "Yes, we should make the front room a gaming room." Really? Yeah. Wow. Has she got any sisters? Unfortunately, they're all married, mate. Sorry. Only, Joken. Nobody wants to live with me. So, it's going on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Friday, midday to midnight. Saturday, 9 a.m. to midnight. Sunday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. All right, so that's a healthy dose of gaming. It is a healthy dose of gaming. And the dabbler as well. Well, look, the thing is, it really comes down to the games you play. You can come down and play a game that takes three or four hours. You can come down and play by multiple games that take 30 minutes. And that's really where it comes down to. There's games for everybody. We'll have the library there, which is 250 games or something like that. We'll have varying games, and we will find you a game for you. There'll be volunteers walking the floor, finding games for people. Third income. Yep. That's pretty good. Well, we want people to play. Yep, and get along and play, folks. Don't be scared. You might sound scary, folks, but he's not. I'm not that scary. I'm actually more scared of you than you are of me. I shouldn't tell him my personal problems, folks. I shouldn't tell people my personal problems. Oh, well, that's it. So if people want to find out more. Yep, so you can search us on Facebook at G-V-G-G. G-V-G-G. Or Shepicon. Yep. So S-H-E-W-P-A-R-C-O-N. Yep. And that will come up with our Facebook pages. Yep. And then you can search on the internet at Shepicon.com, which is where you find all the information about the event. Now, before I thank you, I want to say thank you for coming in. We're hoping to get Q on on the regular. We sort of fell in different directions about this time last year. We did. Due to me. Due to me. Not to you. Oh, well, we weren't placed blame. It's life moves. And, you know. Yeah, but he's back now. So hopefully we're going to be doing it on the reg, folks. I hope you like the sound of that. Does it sound good, people, listeners? Are you going to get out there and play some games? Oh, I'm waiting for them to answer. Well, hopefully they do. I think they should. Oh, the phone didn't ring. Well, maybe ring in. Ah, yeah. Well, now it's going to ring and I'm going to have to answer. Well, that is the problem we're asking for it. Yeah. Well, thank you very much, man, for coming in today. It's been an absolute pleasure. And I appreciate you coming out in the cold. And I really, really hope that it all goes absolutely fantastic for you. Hopefully, we see everyone there. So, yeah. Yeah, get your game on. I know. Three days. Get your eighties, close out on a Saturday night. Yep. And it's all happening at The Terminus in Shepparton. You've been listening to a one FM podcast.