Amanda Erven's guest appearances

Amanda Erven

Flatout at the Table: Board Game Design Talk

Seattle Business Builders

Scott Cooper

Carla Kopp

Brent Anderson

Ross Connell

Sean Epperson

Steven Aramini

Gabe Barrett

Tony Miller

Janice Turner

Terri Morgan

Dylan Howard

Dan Adams

Bull Dozers

Illustrator Conversator

Linda Foster

OwlTail

Scott Cooper is the founder of Blue Highway Games, a Seattle board game store that offers an alternative to electronic media with a carefully curated game selection and a community of like-minded customers. Will sat down with Scott and Amanda Erven, the store manager, to discuss how the business was born out of a job at Microsoft, how it’s grown, and what the future holds. Learn more about Blue Highway games by visiting their website. Subscribe at:

<p>Scott Cooper is the founder of <a href="https://www.bluehighwaygames.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Blue Highway Games</a>, a Seattle board game store that offers an alternative to electronic media with a carefully curated game selection and a community of like-minded customers. Will sat down with Scott and Amanda Erven, the store manager, to discuss how the business was born out of a job at Microsoft, how it’s grown, and what the future holds.</p> <p>Learn more about Blue Highway games by visiting <a href="https://www.bluehighwaygames.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">their website</a>.</p> <h3>Subscribe at:</h3>

Episode 4: Scott Cooper & Amanda Erven from Blue Highway Games | Seattle Business Builder

We start the bidding at the Blue Highway Games board game auction and end it in an elevator! On our latest episode we welcome Amanda Erven, Blue Highway Games manager extraordinaire and board game auction coordinator to discuss the auction/bidding mechanic. We get a little bit of history and explanation on one of Amanda’s favorite mechanics and reflect on what makes this minimally abstracted mechanic so compelling! We talk about: Blue Highway Games, friendly local game stores, board game auctions, silent auctions, buying too many games, Twitter/IRL interactions, Modern Art, Five Tribes, combinations of bluffing and auctioning, Ra, auctions vs. hidden roles, Medici, open auctions, sealed auctions, fixed price auctions, once around auctions, For Sale, running up the price of something, No Thanks!, Skull, filler games, higher player counts, Isle of Skye, Goa, Smile, set collection, push your luck, meta, interactions, Monopoly, fixing Monopoly, Masterpiece, Princes of Florence, telephone rulebooks, Letter Tycoon, auctioning off information, book games, letters from mistresses, Keyflower, Mogul, Clue

<p>We start the bidding at the Blue Highway Games board game auction and end it in an elevator! On our latest episode we welcome Amanda Erven, Blue Highway Games manager extraordinaire and board game auction coordinator to discuss the auction/bidding mechanic. We get a little bit of history and explanation on one of Amanda’s favorite mechanics and reflect on what makes this minimally abstracted mechanic so compelling!</p> <p>We talk about: Blue Highway Games, friendly local game stores, board game auctions, silent auctions, buying too many games, Twitter/IRL interactions, Modern Art, Five Tribes, combinations of bluffing and auctioning, Ra, auctions vs. hidden roles, Medici, open auctions, sealed auctions, fixed price auctions, once around auctions, For Sale, running up the price of something, No Thanks!, Skull, filler games, higher player counts, Isle of Skye, Goa, Smile, set collection, push your luck, meta, interactions, Monopoly, fixing Monopoly, Masterpiece, Princes of Florence, telephone rulebooks, Letter Tycoon, auctioning off information, book games, letters from mistresses, Keyflower, Mogul, Clue</p>

#008 - Auction/Bidding w/ Amanda Erven 