Eurogamer Prints Great Article about Board Games

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I love when an excellent ?mainstream? article introduces folks to board games, and this is one of the best ones I?ve ever read.? Paul Dean introduces board games to the folks at Eurogamer, a game that?s devoted to video games, reviews, and such ? showing them just how fantastic the tabletop world is.

An excerpt from his article?

Video gamers who take up board gaming find themselves in comfortable, familiar territory. Video games have always owed an enormous, incalculable debt to their tabletop progenitors, who have been bleeding their influence into them for decades. Sid Meier?s Civilization was directly inspired by the ?80s board game of the same name, Microsoft?s Close Combat series grew from the popular hex wargame Advanced Squad Leader and the Mechwarrior, Blood Bowl and Europa Universalis series are just some of the many that were born of cardboard. Anything with RPG-style mechanics can draw a line of influence back through Dungeons & Dragons, past the miniatures game Chainmail and all the way to H. G. Wells? wargame development diary Little Wars, where the author experimented with ways to model combat as a game.

But now the influence is felt in both directions, as board game designers are taking all kinds of cues from video games, from the Pipe Mania-inspired real-time ship building in Galaxy Trucker to the Master of Orion-style space opera that is Twilight Imperium. And given this crossover, it?s not so surprising that some more than a few board games have been adapted as video games or iOS apps, allowing gamers to crowd around an iPad to play games like Ghost Stories, or enjoy Memoir ?44 against a world?s worth of opponents via Steam. The line between board games and video games is beginning to blur a little.

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Source: http://www.gamesalute.com/?p=31706

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