Media Watch: Game maker stays true to the board
From the Fresno (CA) Bee:
| Chris Handy makes games. No, not video games. He makes board games. That’s right. He creates low-tech forms of entertainment that feature such items as a game board, dice and cards. Three of his creations, Plext, Linkity and Handy, can be found at specialty game shops or online.
Board games fell out of favor with Americans when the video-game era launched in the ‘80s. That doesn’t mean the genre went away. “While Americans were playing video games, Europe was improving the board game,” says the 33-year-old game maker during a recent telephone interview from his home in Hilmar, near Turlock. “The problem has been that American board games are kind of boring. They take too long to play them or too much luck. |
Head to the FresnoBee.com to read the rest of the article and play “spot the game” in the pic of Handy and his game wall.
Posted by W. Eric Martin on May 27, 2008 at 08:00 AM in Game News, Media Watch / 904
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