Sorry! The Monopoly is at Risk: Why Now is the Best Time Ever to Play Board Games
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Sorry! The Monopoly is at Risk: Why Now is the Best Time Ever to Play Board Games
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Board games have changed since we were kids. The variety of games has never been greater and the quality has never been better. Whether you haven't rolled dice since playing Candyland or have permanently settled in Catan, come hear what makes tabletop gaming so awesome and leave ready to find your next favourite game. Originally presented at Nerd Nite XLI.
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Sorry! The Monopoly is at Risk: Why Now is the Best Time Ever to Play Board Games
- 1. WHY NOW IS THE BEST TIME EVER TO PLAY BOARD GAMES THE IS AT
- 3. WHAT WAS THE LAST BOARD GAME YOU PLAYED?
- 4. DID YOU LAST PLAY… Risk Monopoly Sorry! Trouble Clue Candyland Game of Life Snakes and Ladders
- 5. THESE GAMES AREN’T GREAT Risk Monopoly Sorry! Trouble Clue Candyland Game of Life Snakes and Ladders little or no control minimal decision making long player elimination runaway leader
- 7. Released in 1995 22 million copies in 30 languages
- 9. Launched in 2009 3870 tabletop games funded $196 million with 93% completion
- 11. BUT WHY PLAY BOARD GAMES?
- 12. BOARD GAMES CAN BE COMPETITIVE
- 13. Avalon
- 14. BOARD GAMES CAN BE COOPERATIVE
- 16. BOARD GAMES CAN TELL GREAT STORIES
- 21. Jungle Speed
- 23. NOW WHAT?
- 24. WHERE TO LEARN
- 25. WHERE TO PLAY
- 26. WHERE TO BUY
- 27. ONE MORE GAME…
- 28. (Crazy) Coconuts
- 29. photo of us playing Coconuts
Editor's Notes
- Only my second Nerd Nite Really loved the vibe and the topics Thanks Virve and Lauren for having me
- Enough about me, let’s talk about you
- Use the Monopoly auction rule
- Released in 1995 22 million copies in 30 languages (Minecraft has sold 20 million on PC) (If it were a video game, it would be in the top 25 best sellers all time) It’s actually good Paved the way for Ticket to Ride, Carcassonne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catan
- Easier to find others that share a niche interest Blogs, review sites, YouTube channels Easier to buy and sell niche products
- Easier to find others that share a niche interest Blogs, review sites, YouTube channels Easier to buy and sell niche products
- Launched in 2009 3870 tabletop games funded Tabletop games have received $196 million with 93% completion rate Video games have received $179 million with 85% completion rate http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/crowdfunding-is-driving-a-196-million-board-game-renaissance/
- http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/crowdfunding-is-driving-a-196-million-board-game-renaissance/
- More games, better games http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/designing-the-best-board-game-on-the-planet/
- sure games can have winners and losers but even games like Catan and Ticket to Ride sometimes just feel like races to win first, not that you’re winning by getting other people to lose sometimes you want a game that really makes you feel like you won
- all seemingly on the same team going off on missions for the king secretly some are traitors enough in the gameplay to allow for logical reasoning winning as a good guy means deducing who’s good winning as a bad guy means convincing everyone else of a logical explanation you know to be false especially fun when it’s your Mom
- games can be cooperative in that you’re working together toward a common goal Pandemic, Forbidden Island I like cooperative games that emphasize communication Hanabi
- all detectives trying to solve a case each have a clue gameplay is basically broken telephone there is a look that people get when they are desperately trying to wring information from their brains and then the crushing moment when they know it’s not going to happen
- there are story telling games borderline RPGs Fiasco Dog Eat Dog games where story telling is a mechanic Gloom very thematic games Dead of Winter
- homage to B horror movie tropes explore a haunted house with other adventures find items, trigger events at some point, The Haunt occurs you learn what’s really going on now one of your number is the head of a cannibal household and has brought you there to serve you for dinner not only are they trying to serve you for dinner, you realize you gave that character a shotgun two turns ago because they didn’t have a weapon not only are they trying to kill you with the shotgun you gave them, you gave them the shotgun because they had the best aim
- even when games don’t have stories, they can suck us in
- abstract about flying dragons first time we played, someone started making whooshing noises when they moved their dragon so we all did objectively this game is coloured plastic blobs and cardboard tiles with lines on them but we were a room full of adults making whooshing noises as our dragons flew around
- games can have difficulty levels Pandemic, Forbidden Island games can have expansions Carcassonne but this is like video games where board games differ is that you control the rules
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS6a6a4RJM4
- Shut Up & Sit Down is so good, even the comments are good!
- F2F at Woodbine + Danforth For The Win at Yonge + Lawrence Castle at College + Spadina S&L at Bloor + Bathurst, College + Bathurst
- Internet (Amazon) Any of the board game cafes I mentioned
- beer pong for kids use monkeys with spring loaded arms to lob coconuts into cups
- three generations of my family playing Coconuts I haven’t been talking about games, I’ve been talking about moments Why is now the best time ever to play board games? I don’t know what the game is but there is a game that will give you one of these moments and it’s never been easier to find