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Review – Break the Safe
Break the Safe, from Mattel. This is a cooperative game: you work together as a team. Your job is to race around, disable booby traps, and collect keys to the safe. You have to avoid the guard and the guard … Continue reading
Review – Card Games Around the World
Card Games Around the World, Sid Sackson. Dover, 1994.This book contains a few dozen card games, arranged by the area of the world in which they originated (with little claim to deep scholarship). There are a couple original games thrown … Continue reading
Review – Family Fun and Games
Family Fun & Games, the Diagram Group. Sterling Pub. Co., 1992.This is a solid 800-page collection of traditional games: cards, dice, mancala, and so on. Many games have a page of descriptive text, and a page of pictures. Some important … Continue reading
NASAGA '04 – North American Sim. & Games Assoc.
NASAGA is the North American Simulation and Games Association, held in Washington, DC, Nov. 3-6. The games under discussion are mostly for teaching and facilitation more than pure “fun.” Continue reading
Tagged facilitation, games
Framegames
A framegame is a reusable game shell into which you plug in learning content. Continue reading
Tagged conference, games, training
Scrum from Hell
Practice standup meetings with a dysfunctional one. Continue reading
Push-Line/Pull-Line
Simulate the difference between batch and lean approaches. Continue reading
Origins ’04 Trip Report
William C. Wake, William.Wake@acm.org, July, 2004 Originally appeared in Simages, August, 2004 (Trademarks are capitalized). The Origins ’04 International Games Expo (http://www.originsgames.com) is a game conference sponsored by the Game Manufacturer’s Association (GAMA). It was held at the Columbus (Ohio) … Continue reading
Tagged conference, games
Review – The Game Makers
The Game Makers: The Story of Parker Brothers® from Tiddledy Winks to Trivial Pursuit® Philip E. Orbanes, Harvard Business School Press, 2004. ISBN 1-59139-269-1. This book tells the story of the company from its founding by George Parker, through growth … Continue reading
Tagged games
Review – Game Inventor’s Handbook
Game Inventor’s Handbook, Steve Peek. F&W Publications, 1993. ISBN 1-55870-315-2. The “Game Inventor’s Marketing Handbook” would be a more accurate title. Other than one fairly light chapter on inventing games, the focus of this book is on selling and marketing … Continue reading
Review – Board and Table Games
Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations, R.C. Bell, Dover, 1979. Last year, I got to play Nine-Men’s Morris, a more challenging relative of tic-tac-toe. (I lost consistently:( But that inspired me to find a book describing many old games: … Continue reading