Media Watch: What We Could Learn from Board Games
From GameDaily.com:
| I play a lot of computer and console games. I also play a lot of board games. (Here and throughout, I use the term “board game” loosely, to include a whole spectrum of board, tiled, pen & paper, and card games).
Over the past few months while board gaming, I’ve played a sheriff in the Old West, a modern art dealer, a Mesopotamian king, a colonial-era governor, a 19th-century railroad magnate, a bean farmer, a Vegas casino mogul, and an Egyptian deity. Over the past few months while playing electronic games, I’ve played an elven warrior, a World War II soldier, an elven warrior, an elven warrior, a World War II soldier, an elven ... well, you get the idea. |
Read the complete column by Steve Meretzky, designer of Infocom titles such as Planetfall, Sorceror, and Zork Zero, on GameDaily.com
Source: Frank Branham
Posted by W. Eric Martin on Feb 22, 2007 at 01:30 PM in Game News, Media Watch / 734
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