Tim Clare
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Podcast Appearances
slowly accruing all the real estate and money and you were meant to get to the end of it and think that was incredibly unfair and the game was meant to be a teaching tool it was not meant to be fun so when people say i i feel like that was frustrating and drawn out more than anything else they're getting at something fundamental about the game design
slowly accruing all the real estate and money and you were meant to get to the end of it and think that was incredibly unfair and the game was meant to be a teaching tool it was not meant to be fun so when people say i i feel like that was frustrating and drawn out more than anything else they're getting at something fundamental about the game design
slowly accruing all the real estate and money and you were meant to get to the end of it and think that was incredibly unfair and the game was meant to be a teaching tool it was not meant to be fun so when people say i i feel like that was frustrating and drawn out more than anything else they're getting at something fundamental about the game design
You hit upon something that is so compelling to human beings. It's one of these magical formulas. The archaeologist Dr Irving Finkel at the British Museum said that they're called roll and move games. in academic literature.
You hit upon something that is so compelling to human beings. It's one of these magical formulas. The archaeologist Dr Irving Finkel at the British Museum said that they're called roll and move games. in academic literature.
You hit upon something that is so compelling to human beings. It's one of these magical formulas. The archaeologist Dr Irving Finkel at the British Museum said that they're called roll and move games. in academic literature.
And he said that there's something fundamental about that, that wherever in any society, a game where you roll some dice and race around a board first past the post games appears, it spreads like wildfire. It always comes to dominate the culture that it's in. Why is that exciting? Well, I suppose what those games do is they take simple dice rolling and maybe you make tally marks and get a score.
And he said that there's something fundamental about that, that wherever in any society, a game where you roll some dice and race around a board first past the post games appears, it spreads like wildfire. It always comes to dominate the culture that it's in. Why is that exciting? Well, I suppose what those games do is they take simple dice rolling and maybe you make tally marks and get a score.
And he said that there's something fundamental about that, that wherever in any society, a game where you roll some dice and race around a board first past the post games appears, it spreads like wildfire. It always comes to dominate the culture that it's in. Why is that exciting? Well, I suppose what those games do is they take simple dice rolling and maybe you make tally marks and get a score.
They turn that into like a horse race. And human beings love a race. And even something like the game Pooh Sticks, right, where come from Winnie the Pooh, where you throw sticks over one side of the bridge and then you run to the other side of the bridge and there's a river underneath and you see whose stick comes out first.
They turn that into like a horse race. And human beings love a race. And even something like the game Pooh Sticks, right, where come from Winnie the Pooh, where you throw sticks over one side of the bridge and then you run to the other side of the bridge and there's a river underneath and you see whose stick comes out first.
They turn that into like a horse race. And human beings love a race. And even something like the game Pooh Sticks, right, where come from Winnie the Pooh, where you throw sticks over one side of the bridge and then you run to the other side of the bridge and there's a river underneath and you see whose stick comes out first.
I think there's something fundamental in the human spirit, something irreducible about racing.
I think there's something fundamental in the human spirit, something irreducible about racing.
I think there's something fundamental in the human spirit, something irreducible about racing.
My first thought when video games came out is that board games are doomed. That has not been the case at all. I think, if anything, the ubiquity of video games has fueled this desire to get away from screens and get away from digital experiences. Not that I don't love them, but I think that People really crave that physical experience around the table with other people.
My first thought when video games came out is that board games are doomed. That has not been the case at all. I think, if anything, the ubiquity of video games has fueled this desire to get away from screens and get away from digital experiences. Not that I don't love them, but I think that People really crave that physical experience around the table with other people.
My first thought when video games came out is that board games are doomed. That has not been the case at all. I think, if anything, the ubiquity of video games has fueled this desire to get away from screens and get away from digital experiences. Not that I don't love them, but I think that People really crave that physical experience around the table with other people.
Board games have never been doing better in terms of sales. They are doing phenomenally well at the moment.
Board games have never been doing better in terms of sales. They are doing phenomenally well at the moment.