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Games Designers should all play.

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rpghost
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I tallied up the survey for games designers should play to learn most of the popular mechanics and play styles.

You can find the summary here:

http://www.jamesmathe.com/games-designers-play/

James

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Interesting. I happy that I

Interesting. I happy that I played around 25 of the 30 proposed games on the facebook poll.

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I think there was a lack of

I think there was a lack of classics. Glad that Diplomacy and D&D was on the fb list (I have played neither but they seem important enough that I have at least read much about them).

I would add Advanced Squad Leader and Stratego and pick any one of the classic operational level hex-and-counter wargames (there are hundreds or thousands of similar games in that genre to choose from, which is why I think a designer should try it).

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Some of those classics were

Some of those classics were on the poll but not voted for enough. Also we wanted more of a modern twist so people would WANT to play the games mentioned.

James

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rpghost wrote:Some of those

rpghost wrote:
Some of those classics were on the poll but not voted for enough. Also we wanted more of a modern twist so people would WANT to play the games mentioned.

James

But I WANT to play old games. I even love reading about old games. It is nice to see where ideas came from, how genres evolved, what types of games used to be popular but are forgotten (and is thus more interesting to draw inspiratïon from than some new game). Otherwise I feel you get a very shallow view of what games can be.

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This list is incomplete...

...without a single example of a word game.

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