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, my visit to the board games colloquium was interesting. It is a distinct academic gaming culture (made up of historians, anthropologists, mathematicians, game theoreticians, and archaeologists) that has been gathering for over a decade. The quality of the talks, as expected, was pretty varied – but there were a few gems that [...]

Gamasutra has an article about the Essen International Game Day, in Essen, Germany. They say it is the largest board game event in the world. They profile some new games that came out during the event like Galaxy Trucker.
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