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