-
It is hard to tell stories with boardgames because the game is, even more than with videogames, inside the player's head, and given people usually don't like to digest vast quantities of information before playing... you gotta use the stuff that's already up therePermalink Look on archive.org
❤️ 20 Favorites Mood -3 🙁
-
this is why you get all those gross stereotypes and colonialism, of course - what Western player doesn't have a load of that stuff in their head, even if they don't, like, consciously agree with it. or think it's good.Permalink Look on archive.org
-
there's a great essay exploring just this - Faidutti's "Post-colonial Catan" @v21/1278302280148811777Permalink Look on archive.org
-
but anyway: this thread was inspired by this one, by a designer who has focused on making authentic but surprising historical wargames @AmabelHolland/1572600551921324033Look on archive.org