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    What's in an E-name? 

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    Published on 05-03-2011 06:36 AM
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    One of the things I'm hoping to use this blog for is to launch discussions on topics that I'm thinking about. Since my last post on board games and digital versions of board games, I've continued to think about the topic.

    I was ...
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    The Price of Board Games 

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    Published on 03-28-2011 06:25 AM
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    I am involved in more than board games. I also play video and computer games, and have dabbled in RPGs and other forms of gaming.

    One of the things I hear in the boardgame community that bothers me is when someone complains about a game price ...
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    The Medium or the Message: Is it still a Board Game? 

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    Published on 03-05-2011 09:09 AM  Number of Views: 5662 
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    Over on Board Game Geek, there was a recent discussion with someone posing the question if the electronic version of Catch Phrase is still a board game (http://boardgamegeek.com/article/6332156) and that got me thinking.

    This concept extends ...
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    The Cult of the New and Game Design Implications 

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    Published on 01-26-2011 07:11 AM
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    There have been a few things that I’ve noted recently coming from video game writers that have got me thinking about new game experiences and game design.

    The view from Video Gamers
    The first came from the blog The Expensive Planetarium ...
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    Games and Game Experiences 

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    Published on 01-06-2011 03:34 PM  Number of Views: 6105 
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    “What is your favorite game?” is one of the questions I get asked most commonly about board games. The challenge with this question is that, for me, the unit of consideration is not a game, but the “game experience.”

    This is a concept I’ve ...
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    Introduction to the Game Professor 

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    Published on 12-31-2010 10:00 AM  Number of Views: 4608 
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    MIT Class on Board Game Publishing 

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    Published on 12-31-2010 03:01 AM  Number of Views: 3447 
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    When I visited MIT in 2010, I gave a guest lecture to a game design class on board games. This group of students had been making their own board games as part of the class, but didn't have a lot of board game experience (in general).

    The idea ...
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    Presentation from MIT: "Fun In The Stacks: Games, Gaming and Gamers in Libraries" 

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    Published on 12-31-2010 01:56 AM  Number of Views: 2775 
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    While I was visiting MIT in November of 2010, I gave a public talk on gaming in libraries. The Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Lab recorded my talks and made them available online.

    In this talk, I presented the history of gaming in libraries, data from ...
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