The Digital Tabletop

Myself and Brian Magerko are organizing a session entitled “From the Keyboard to the Game Board: Exploring Non-Digital Tabletop Games” at the Meaningful Play conference (http://meaningfulplay.msu.edu) in the fall. As a result, we’re looking for session participants. Here is the *very* preliminary session description:
“Non-digital tabletop games have been an entertainment and education medium for millenia. [...]

So, we’ve covered digital game-to-board game adaptation briefly in our game session in the past (re: Doom the Board game and currently Starcraft) and intend to focus more so on it in the coming weeks with the Starcraft board game. Ian Bogost posted recently about a fun find in board game history: http://www.bogost.com/blog/zimmer_base_ball_and_cigars.shtml

Summary
This quick card game is for 2 to 4 players. The premise of the game is that each player is a goblin mechanic (because goblins are obviously mechanically inclined). Each player starts with the same amount of cards that are placed in a draw pile. These cards allow the player to create a Machine, basically [...]