the modern eurogame revolution
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The Modern Eurogame Revolution. A presentation by Yehuda Berlinger for The Board Game Studies Colloquium 2009, Jerusalem. Today’s Mainstream “Bored Games”. Plus party games, and a few good games for adults like Blokus, Scrabble, and Othello. Just How Many Versions Do We Need?. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
The Modern Eurogame Revolution
A presentation by Yehuda Berlinger for The Board Game Studies Colloquium 2009, Jerusalem
Today’s Mainstream “Bored Games”
Plus party games, and a few good games for adults like Blokus, Scrabble, and Othello
Just How Many Versions Do We Need?
It’s a Great Game … Once
Not a Casual Game for Families
Life Magazine
Look at the Happy People
http://videogamesareboring.com/?p=57
A Less Friendly Family Game
A More Friendly Family Game
The Coming of the Meeples
First Read This
And We’ll Play Next January
Player Elimination in Monopoly
My Face During Some Games
An Epic Clash of Round Disks and Square Tiles!
No Swahili?
The “Current” Market
An Epic Clash Between Human Beans
Ooh! Shiny!
All Hail the Gods of Eurogame Design
Dr Reiner Knizia Wolfgang KramerKlaus Tueber Alan MoonUwe Rosenberg Abdreas SeyfarthKlaus-Jürgen Wrede Martin WallaceFriedmann Friess Rudiger DornRichard Berg and so on …
Eminent Domaine
Actually, the One on the Top Left Sucks
Note: The Brown Disks Are Called “Colonists”, NOT “Slaves”
aka Indiana Jones and the Temples of Cardboard
Our Group Designed a Similar GameThat We Call: “Lo Ra”
I’ve Got Wood For Your Sheep
“But I’m Not Ready To Build, Yet!”
The Ubiquitous Colored Wooden Cubes
See, I Told You About the Cubes
Wheeeeee
Stone Age
Primordial Soup
Amun-Re
Tigris and Euphrates
Carcassonne
Caylus
Princes of Florence
Notre Dame
Entdecker
Through the Ages
Tikal
Lost Valley
Power Grid
Industria
Agricola
Bohnanza
Puerto Rico
Alhambra
Die Macher
1960
Age of Steam
Ticket to Ride
Race for the Galaxy
Mission: Red Planet
BattleLore
Lord of the Rings
Kill, Kill, Kill
And No Popup Ads
“Are You Man Enough” to Play This Game?
Or “The Geek”, As We Affectionately Call It
Better Than CNN
Better Than the Oscars
Don’t You Want to Be This Happy?
http://www.blatherings.com/2008/11/boardgamegeek-convention/
The Modern Eurogame Revolution
Resistance isFutile
You Will Be Assimilated
Thank You