Green Ronin to Release New Book – Family Games: The 100 Best
In 2008 Green Ronin Publishing released Hobby Games: The 100 Best, a 400-page book of gamers and designers each writing about one game they feel is among the best published in the past fifty years. By the end of March 2010, Green Ronin will release a companion volume, Family Games: The 100 Best. ($25) This book follows the model of the earlier release – with one hundred short essays, almost all of them by a different writer – but this time the games can be up to 100 years old. Perhaps it’s tougher to find worthwhile family games…
The list of titles included in Family Games: The 100 Best, along with the gamer or designer writing about them, is posted on the book’s webpage. Some of the interesting combinations include:
- James Ernest on Candy Land
- Corey Konieczka on For Sale
- Matt Leacock on Go Away Monster!
- Jason Matthews on Gulo Gulo
- Alan R. Moon on Hoity Toity
- Peter Olotka on Risk
- Richard Breese on Rummikub
- Andrea Angiolino on Survive!
- Steve Jackson on The Great Dalmuti
Posted by W. Eric Martin on Mar 17, 2010 at 11:00 PM in Game News, The Industry at Large / 1544
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I’ll be interested to read this - I enjoyed the first book quite a lot. Cheers, Giles. Posted by Giles Pritchard on Mar 17, 2010 at 11:40 PM | #
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Looking forward to see Ernest’s piece on Candyland above all others! Posted by William Baldwin on Mar 18, 2010 at 04:46 AM | #
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Hope they all actually played the games this time… Posted by E.R. Burgess on Mar 20, 2010 at 01:58 AM | #
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I just pre-ordered it. I loved the first book and cannot wait for this one. Posted by Bradley Keen on Mar 20, 2010 at 04:12 PM | #
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We went back 100 years with this one because some older games fell under the definition we were using for “family game.” The writers picked their topics, so they are quite familiar with the games they champion.
Cheers,
Posted by James Lowder on Mar 22, 2010 at 09:45 PM | #
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