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I already wrote about the European Planning Conference in the blog a few weeks ago, I mentioned I’d recorded my talk. I just finished editing it so you can listen to it as a special episode of the podcast. I’m adding the slides here for reference, though as I also mention in the episode the slides are mostly a few images and not really necessary to understand the talk.
I get slightly lost in the section talking about chess and abstract strategy games, listening to the recording I realised I’d made the two points I had in mind and that define these types of games:
- All the elements are visible to players, no hidden parts
- They contain no random elements, nothing left to chance.
Slides to follow along the talk:
- Title [00:00 to 03:20]
- Intro [03:20 to 05:03]
- Dessert [05:03 to 06:10]
- MasterChef Australia [06:10 to 06:45]
- Chocolate popsicle [06:45 to 08:00]
- Play [08:00 to 08:42]
- What constitutes of a game [08:42 to 10:22]
- Abstract strategy games [10:22 to 14:35]
- Tabletop hobby games [14:35 to 15:47]
- Crowdfunding and Kickstarter [15:47 to 16:45]
- European / German style board games [16:45 to 17:40]
- Settlers of Catan [17:40 to 19:30]
- Zombicide / collaborative board games [19:30 to 21:24]
- Tabletop roleplaying games / Prague by night [21:24 to 24:45]
- Roleplaying table [24:45 to 24:58]
- RPG variety [24:58 to 25:20]
- Playing with numbers [25:20 to 26:20]
- Speaking with an audience [26:20 to 26:45]
- Creating & improvising solid stories [26:45 to 28:15]
- Stepping in someone else’s shoes [28:15 to 29:06]
- Collaborative problem solving [29:06 to 29:35]
- It’s fun! [29:35 to 29:52]
- To sum things up [29:52 to 30:12]
- Conclusion
A few references mentioned in the episode:
- Image header credit: Pure Geekery (Tabletop with Wil Wheaton)
- European Planning Conference
- Kristijan Petkoski
- Fiona Rosario
- Landmark Worldwide
- iris Worldwide
- Saatchi & Saatchi
- Possible
- Man, Play and Games (Les jeux et les hommes), Roger Caillois
- Senet
- Spiel Essen
- GenCon
- Board Game Geek
- Catan
- Ticket to Ride
- Crowdfunding is driving a $196M board game renaissance
- The Man who built Catan, New Yorker
- Monopoly Killer, Wired
- Collaborative Board Games
- Zombicide
- Dead of Winter
- Pandemic
- Knights of Badassdom
- Live action roleplaying games (LARP)
- Les Voix d’Altaride tabletop RPG podcast (in French)
- Tabletop roleplaying games
- I’ve stolen the model UN analogy from John Wick
