The Modern Eurogame Revolution

A presentation by Yehuda Berlinger for The Board Game Studies Colloquium 2009, Jerusalem

Today’s Mainstream “Bored Games”

Plus party games, and a few good games for adults like Blokus, Scrabble, and Othello

Just How Many Versions Do We Need?

It’s a Great Game … Once

Not a Casual Game for Families

Life Magazine

Look at the Happy People

http://videogamesareboring.com/?p=57

A Less Friendly Family Game

A More Friendly Family Game

The Coming of the Meeples

First Read This

And We’ll Play Next January

Player Elimination in Monopoly

My Face During Some Games

An Epic Clash of Round Disks and Square Tiles!

No Swahili?

The “Current” Market

An Epic Clash Between Human Beans

Ooh! Shiny!

All Hail the Gods of Eurogame Design

Dr Reiner Knizia Wolfgang KramerKlaus Tueber Alan MoonUwe Rosenberg Abdreas SeyfarthKlaus-Jürgen Wrede Martin WallaceFriedmann Friess Rudiger DornRichard Berg and so on …

Eminent Domaine

Actually, the One on the Top Left Sucks

Note: The Brown Disks Are Called “Colonists”, NOT “Slaves”

aka Indiana Jones and the Temples of Cardboard

Our Group Designed a Similar GameThat We Call: “Lo Ra”

I’ve Got Wood For Your Sheep

“But I’m Not Ready To Build, Yet!”

The Ubiquitous Colored Wooden Cubes

See, I Told You About the Cubes

Wheeeeee

Stone Age

Primordial Soup

Amun-Re

Tigris and Euphrates

Carcassonne

Caylus

Princes of Florence

Notre Dame

Entdecker

Through the Ages

Tikal

Lost Valley

Power Grid

Industria

Agricola

Bohnanza

Puerto Rico

Alhambra

Die Macher

1960

Age of Steam

Ticket to Ride

Race for the Galaxy

Mission: Red Planet

BattleLore

Lord of the Rings

Kill, Kill, Kill

And No Popup Ads

“Are You Man Enough” to Play This Game?

Or “The Geek”, As We Affectionately Call It

Better Than CNN

Better Than the Oscars

Don’t You Want to Be This Happy?

http://www.blatherings.com/2008/11/boardgamegeek-convention/

The Modern Eurogame Revolution

Resistance isFutile

You Will Be Assimilated

Thank You