Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1916456227
The Board Game Book
Anonim
Board Games
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The Oxford History of Board Games
David Parlett
Author : David Parlett
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : UOM:39015059586043
The Oxford History of Board Games by David Parlett Pdf
For thousands of years, people have been planning attacks, captures, chases, and conquests - on a variety of different boards designed for an astonishing diversity of games. Today the compelling mix of strategy, skill, and chance is as strong as ever; new board games are invented almost daily,while the perennial favourites continue to attract new devotees and reveal new possibilities. The Oxford History of Board Games investigates the principles of board games throughout the ages and across the world, exploring the fascinating similarities and differences that give each its unique appeal, and drawing out the significance of game-playing as a central part of human experience - asvital to a culture as its music, dance, and tales. Beautifully illustrated and with diagrams to show the finer points of the games, this is a fascinating and accessible guide to a richly rewarding subject. In his trade-mark accessible, entertaining style, David Parlett looks at the different families of games: games based on configuration or connection, races or chases, wars or hunts, capture or blockade. He focuses mainly on traditional games, the folk entertainments that have grown up organicallythrough the centuries, and which exhibit endless local variations, although he discusses also the commercial products that have tried, with varying degrees of success, to match their astonishing popularity. This is not primarily a how-to book, although the rules and strategies of certain games are discussed in detail, neither does it offer sure-fire tips for success, although with a fuller understanding of a game the reader will undoubtedly become a better-informed, if not better, player. Rather, itis an affectionate and authoritative survey of one of the most familiar parts of our cultural history, which has until now been inexplicably neglected.
Avidly Reads Board Games
Eric Thurm
Author : Eric Thurm
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781479815821
Avidly Reads Board Games by Eric Thurm Pdf
Avidly Reads is a series of short books about how culture makes us feel. Founded in 2012 by Sarah Blackwood and Sarah Mesle, Avidly—an online magazine supported by the Los Angeles Review of Books—specializes in short-form critical essays devoted to thinking and feeling. Avidly Reads is an exciting new series featuring books that are part memoir, part cultural criticism, each bringing to life the author’s emotional relationship to a cultural artifact or experience. Avidly Reads invites us to explore the surprising pleasures and obstacles of everyday life. Writer and critic Eric Thurm digs deep into his own experience as a board game enthusiast to explore the emotional and social rules that games create and reveal, telling a series of stories about a pastime that is also about relationships. From the outdated gender roles in Life and Mystery Date to the cutthroat, capitalist priorities of Monopoly and its socialist counterpart, Class Struggle, Thurm thinks through his ongoing rivalries with his siblings and ponders the ways games both upset and enforce hierarchies and relationships—from the familial to the geopolitical. Like sitting down at the table for family game night, Board Games is an engaging book of twists and turns, trivia, and nostalgia.
It's All a Game
Tristan Donovan
Author : Tristan Donovan
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781250082732
It's All a Game by Tristan Donovan Pdf
"[A] timely book...It’s All a Game provides a wonderfully entertaining trip around the board, through 4,000 years of game history."—The Wall Street Journal Board games have been with us longer than even the written word. But what is it about this pastime that continues to captivate us well into the age of smartphones and instant gratification? In It’s All a Game, British journalist and renowned games expert Tristan Donovan opens the box on the incredible and often surprising history and psychology of board games. He traces the evolution of the game across cultures, time periods, and continents, from the paranoid Chicago toy genius behind classics like Operation and Mouse Trap, to the role of Monopoly in helping prisoners of war escape the Nazis, and even the scientific use of board games today to teach artificial intelligence how to reason and how to win. With these compelling stories and characters, Donovan ultimately reveals why board games--from chess to Monopoly to Settlers of Catan, and more--have captured hearts and minds all over the world for generations.
Rerolling Boardgames
Douglas Brown,Esther MacCallum-Stewart
Author : Douglas Brown,Esther MacCallum-Stewart
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-27
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781476670799
Rerolling Boardgames by Douglas Brown,Esther MacCallum-Stewart Pdf
Despite the advent and explosion of videogames, boardgames--from fast-paced party games to intensely strategic titles--have in recent years become more numerous and more diverse in terms of genre, ethos and content. The growth of gaming events and conventions such as Essen Spiel, Gen Con and the UK Games EXPO, as well as crowdfunding through sites like Kickstarter, has diversified the evolution of game development, which is increasingly driven by fans, and boardgames provide an important glue to geek culture. In academia, boardgames are used in a practical sense to teach elements of design and game mechanics. Game studies is also recognizing the importance of expanding its focus beyond the digital. As yet, however, no collected work has explored the many different approaches emerging around the critical challenges that boardgaming represents. In this collection, game theorists analyze boardgame play and player behavior, and explore the complex interactions between the sociality, conflict, competition and cooperation that boardgames foster. Game designers discuss the opportunities boardgame system designs offer for narrative and social play. Cultural theorists discuss boardgames' complex history as both beautiful physical artifacts and special places within cultural experiences of play.
Your Move
Jonathan Kay,Joan Moriarity
Author : Jonathan Kay,Joan Moriarity
Publisher : Sutherland House Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-11
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1999439546
Your Move by Jonathan Kay,Joan Moriarity Pdf
The great board game revolution is here-- What do these games tell us about our society, our relationships, and ourselves? "Games, Jonathan Kay and Joan Moriarity show in this lively and insightful book, are not just fun and games: they allow us to explore the complexities of the world, from evolution to war to climate." - STEVEN PINKER, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress "Kay and Moriarity are both skilled writers and elucidators, and their voices are distinct enough to provide the book with a pleasing yin and yang. It's a far more perceptive and intriguing book than it appears at first blush, particularly for those readers who have never thought of games as an artistic medium - at least not one that comments on society." - KIRKUS REVIEWS Board games are among our most ancient and beloved art forms. During the rise of digital media, they fell from prominence for a decade or two but today they are in a new golden age. They're ingeniously designed, beautiful to look at, and exhilarating to play. Games are reclaiming their place in our culture, as entertainment, social activity, and intellectual workout equipment. Alone among all art forms, games require their audience (called "players") to participate. If nobody's playing, there is no game. As a result, games can tell far more about us than our TV shows, movies or music ever could. How does The Game of Life illustrate our changing attitudes about virtue? How does a World War II conflict simulation game explain the shortcomings of a failed novelist? Each chapter of Your Move examines one game, and what it reveals about our culture, history, society, and relationships. The book's two co-authors bring the perspectives of a writer who plays, and a player who writes. Before Jonathan Kay began his distinguished career as an author and commentator, he had a passion for games, and in recent years he has rediscovered them. Meanwhile, Joan Moriarity's career has been spent designing, developing, distributing, art directing, recommending and teaching board games and, recently, writing about them for a wider audience. With its short, punchy essays, and beautiful photographs of the games themselves, every chapter will be a worthwhile read in itself, and the book overall will leave you inspired to discover the truths of your own inner and outer world through play -- whether you're a seasoned veteran or a total newcomer.
Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations
R. C. Bell
Author : R. C. Bell
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780486145570
Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations by R. C. Bell Pdf
This encyclopedic volume provides the rules and methods of play for more than 180 different games: Ma-jong, Hazard, Wei-ch'i (Go), Backgammon, Pachisi, and many others. Over 300 photographs and line drawings.
The Book of Classic Board Games
Sid Sackson
Author : Sid Sackson
Publisher : Klutz
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Board games
ISBN : 0932592945
The Book of Classic Board Games by Sid Sackson Pdf
Definitive rules for 15 classic games, each illustrated in a different and beautiful style. Comes with a supply of black and white playing pieces and a pair of dice, all of which can always be kept handy in the book's bound-in, zip-up storage pouch. Neat!
Designing Board Games
Kristin Fontichiaro
Author : Kristin Fontichiaro
Publisher : Cherry Lake
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781634722544
Designing Board Games by Kristin Fontichiaro Pdf
Designing and playing your own board games can be a lot of fun. Through simple text written to foster creativity and problem solving, students will learn the art of innovation. Large, colorful images show students how to complete activities. Additional tools, including a glossary and an index, help students learn new vocabulary and locate information.
Eurogames
Stewart Woods
Author : Stewart Woods
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780786467976
Eurogames by Stewart Woods Pdf
While board games can appear almost primitive in the digital age, eurogames--also known as German-style board games--have increased in popularity nearly concurrently with the rise of video games. Eurogames have simple rules and short playing times and emphasize strategy over luck and conflict. This book examines the form of eurogames, the hobbyist culture that surrounds them, and the way that hobbyists experience the play of such games. It chronicles the evolution of tabletop hobby gaming and explores why hobbyists play them, how players balance competitive play with the demands of an intimate social gathering, and to what extent the social context of the game encounter shapes the playing experience. Combining history, cultural studies, leisure studies, ludology, and play theory, this innovative work highlights a popular alternative trend in the gaming community.
The Everything Tabletop Games Book
Bebo
Author : Bebo
Publisher : Everything
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781507210628
The Everything Tabletop Games Book by Bebo Pdf
Tabletop and board games aren’t just for rainy days or awkward family events anymore. As the game industry grows, people of all ages are jumping to play “the original social network.” In our ever-increasing technological world, playing old-school games is a welcome retreat from the overexposure to Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and the rest of social media. Over the past few years, board games have become the hot new hobby. Instead of friends sitting around the same table and staring at their phones, they are now either working with or against each other. Millions upon millions of new fans have begun to join their friends in real life for a fun game of Pandemic, 7 Wonders, or Ticket to Ride. The Everything Tabletop Games Book shows how to play some of the best tabletop games in the world, from classic strategy games like Settlers of Catan to great new games like Gloomhaven. Throughout the book, you’ll learn the different genres of tabletop and board games; how to play each game; rules and strategies to help you win; and even where to play online—including new expansions to keep your favorite games fresh and exciting. So gather up some friends, pick a game from this book, and start playing! You’ll be having a blast in no time.
Discovering Old Board Games
R.C. Bell
Author : R.C. Bell
Publisher : Shire Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-21
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0852635338
Discovering Old Board Games by R.C. Bell Pdf
This book contains descriptions of sixty board games, drawn from an immense range of history - from 3000 BC through to the turn of the nineteenth century. Accounts of these games have been gleaned from archaeological reports, traveler's tales, anthropological studies and foreign-language accounts of games, translated into English for the first time. Using the detailed text and fifty-nine diagrams it is possible for the reader to construct their own boards and pieces and enjoy hours of play. Perfect for toy and game collectors, this book can also bring something different to family occasions - instead of the usual board games, why not play a number game that was once popular among the intelligentsia of the middle ages?
Board Games as Media
Paul Booth
Author : Paul Booth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781501357176
Board Games as Media by Paul Booth Pdf
Leading expert Paul Booth explores the growth in popularity of board games today, and unpacks what it means to read a board game. What does a game communicate? How do games play us? And how do we decide which games to play and which are just wastes of cardboard? With little scholarly research in this still-emerging field, Board Games as Media underscores the importance of board games in the ever-evolving world of media.
Celebrating Board Games
Nina Chertoff,Susan Kahn
Author : Nina Chertoff,Susan Kahn
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1402738951
Celebrating Board Games by Nina Chertoff,Susan Kahn Pdf
This beautiful and nostalgic pictorial celebration of board games will transport readers back to a simpler time, when child’s play didn’t involve video games or computer screens of any kind. More than 100 of the best are featured, from the 19th century until today, with pictures of both the boards and the various pieces. They include Animal Crackers, which dates from 1883; Across the Continent (1888); the ever-popular children’s favorite Candyland (1938); Nurse Ames (1944); the mystery game Clue (1950); Elvis (1958); and many more. Some are well-known, others more rare, but they will surely send readers scrambling to their old toy chests to play another round.
The Book of Roman Pop-up Board Games
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Pop Up Board Games S.
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Games
ISBN : 1857075978
The Book of Roman Pop-up Board Games by Anonim Pdf
Four games about life in Ancient Rome: Gladiators, Chariot Race, Escape From Pompeii, and Race for the Throne. Includes an attached 14-page reading book the different prehistoric ages and the dinosaurs, an integrated spinner, press-out counters, and spinner. Educational, fun, and perfect for traveling.