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SUMMARY:From Settlers to Quarriors: Breaking up the Monopoly with Modern Board Game Design
DESCRIPTION:Scott Nicholson\nOver the last 15 years\, there has been an explosion of innovation in board game styles and mechanisms. The Settlers of Catan was the game that crossed the ocean from Germany to the U.S. in the late 1990’s and kicked off this new era in board gaming.  These modern board games\, or Eurogames\, are more engaging experiences and based less on luck than the typical roll-and-move board game design prevalent in the 20th century. \nAttendees will learn about a variety of game mechanisms through discussions of exemplar games and see how these games relate.  Many of these mechanisms are appropriate for digital games as well as tabletop games\, so attendees will improve their toolkit of mechanisms for their own design work. \nDr. Scott Nicholson is a visiting scholar with MIT Comparative Media Studies for the 2011-2012 academic year\, working with the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab and The Education Arcade. He is an associate professor at the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University\, where he has focused on games in libraries and game design as a pedagogical tool. He was the host of Board Games with Scott from 2005-2010 and is the designer of Tulipmania 1637\, a board game published in 2009. In addition\, he is the author of Everyone Plays at the Library: Creating Great Gaming Experiences for All Ages\, published in 2010 by Information Today.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/scott-nicholson-modern-board-game-design/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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