http://www.critical-hits.com/2006/05/31/spiel-des-jahres-nominees-announced/ The Journal of Gamer Culture Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:22:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.critical-hits.com/2006/05/31/spiel-des-jahres-nominees-announced/comment-page-1/#comment-798 Critical Hits » Hard Truths About Game Design Fri, 01 Sep 2006 22:04:19 +0000 http://www.critical-hits.com/?p=236#comment-798 [...] He sure doesn’t dress like a millionaire… Even Alan Moon, one of the most prolific game designers working in boardgames, has admitted that if Ticket to Ride hadn’t won the Spiel Des Jahres award, he’d probably have to get another job. [...] [...] He sure doesn’t dress like a millionaire… Even Alan Moon, one of the most prolific game designers working in boardgames, has admitted that if Ticket to Ride hadn’t won the Spiel Des Jahres award, he’d probably have to get another job. [...]

]]> http://www.critical-hits.com/2006/05/31/spiel-des-jahres-nominees-announced/comment-page-1/#comment-760 Critical Hits » The Digital World of Analog Play Fri, 25 Aug 2006 21:53:53 +0000 http://www.critical-hits.com/?p=236#comment-760 [...] One of the stories posted in nearly all the news sites I read is that Microsoft is going to make three Spiel Des Jahres winning boardgames available as downloadable content from Xbox Live. Turning boardgames into videogames has been going on for a long, long time: my parents used to play Backgammon and Bridge on their Atari. The question is about the REVERSE- how can technology improve your non-digital games? I posed the question recently about using software to play D&D over long distances- but you don’t need dedicated software to have part of the experience. I’ve heard tales of people using voice chat software and a webcam to play. (In fact, one of my favorite comics features a player in the regular RPG who plays entirely over Webcam.) Technology has finally caught up to the point to where this is viable; I remember one day when I was in middle school where I tried to play D&D over the phone when I was sick. During the phone call I changed characters to be a Raving Derelict, so all I had to do was ramble incoherently in the phone when I wanted to do something (and in fact, ramble incoherently was all my character COULD do, as it was too difficult for a real character to get the information needed to be effective over the phone.) [...] [...] One of the stories posted in nearly all the news sites I read is that Microsoft is going to make three Spiel Des Jahres winning boardgames available as downloadable content from Xbox Live. Turning boardgames into videogames has been going on for a long, long time: my parents used to play Backgammon and Bridge on their Atari. The question is about the REVERSE- how can technology improve your non-digital games? I posed the question recently about using software to play D&D over long distances- but you don’t need dedicated software to have part of the experience. I’ve heard tales of people using voice chat software and a webcam to play. (In fact, one of my favorite comics features a player in the regular RPG who plays entirely over Webcam.) Technology has finally caught up to the point to where this is viable; I remember one day when I was in middle school where I tried to play D&D over the phone when I was sick. During the phone call I changed characters to be a Raving Derelict, so all I had to do was ramble incoherently in the phone when I wanted to do something (and in fact, ramble incoherently was all my character COULD do, as it was too difficult for a real character to get the information needed to be effective over the phone.) [...]

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