"I Drink Your Milkshake": Bus and other Shared Infrastructure Games

About this episode

The episode explores shared infrastructure games, focusing on the game Bus and its appeal in logistics puzzles.

Episode 267- Shared Infrastructure Games and Bus Time to deep dive the new hotness... from 1999. In this episode we do a deep dive on Splotter's first major hit Bus and discuss other shared infrastructure games. Why are we drawn to these crowded, brutal logistics puzzles? Timestamps 3:00- shared infrastructure games32:00- Bus deep dive Other Games Mentioned Barrage, Brass Birmingham, Medina, Keyflower, Food Chain Magnate Preplanners Geekway to the West 2026 recap is coming soon! Also, Paul is going to take us through a tier list of his favorite designer: Phil Walker Harding! Music and Sound Credits Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/. Thank you to Flash Floods for use of their song Palm of Your Hand as a sting from their album Halfway to Anywhere: https://open.spotify.com/album/2fE6LrqzNDKPYWyS5evh3K?si=CCjdAGmeSnOOEui6aV3_nA Intermission Music:music elevator ext part 1/3 by Jay_You -- https://freesound.org/s/467243/…

People in this episode

Hosts: Jacob Frydman, Brendan Hansen, Pete Wissinger, Paul Salomon

Topics covered

• shared infrastructure games
• logistics puzzles
• Bus game
• game design
• board games

Keywords

• Bus
• shared infrastructure
• logistics
• board games
• game design

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Hembree, Flash Floods

Products: Bus, Barrage, Brass Birmingham, Medina, Keyflower, Food Chain Magnate

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