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BoardGameGeek was founded in January 2000 by Scott Alden and Derk Solko, [6] and marked its 20th anniversary on 20 January 2020. [7]Since 2005, BoardGameGeek hosts an annual board game convention, BGG.CON, that has a focus on playing games, and where winners of the Golden Geek Awards are announced.
Pandemic Legacy: Season 1, which Leacock co-designed with Rob Daviau, has been rated very highly among board gamers and by the website Board Game Geek on its board game rankings. [9] [10] His latest game, Daybreak is about climate change, and won The Best Board or Tabletop Game for Impact at the 2024 Games for Change Festival. [11]
The game has been consistently ranked near or in the Top 10 of Boardgamegeek's War Game Rank since its release, peaking around 2011, although its ranking has been slowly declining over the years (#4 in 2011–2013, #5 in 2015, #7 in 2017, #8 in 2019, #9 in 2021). Likewise, its general rank has declined from around Top 50 in early 2010s to Top ...
Kingmaker is a board game for 2–7 players in which each player controls one or more royal families in 15th-century England. [1] Through war, diplomacy, and politics, the players attempt to gain control of one or more members of the two rival royal families, the House of Lancaster and the House of York, to place one of them on the throne of England while eliminating all other "pretenders."
Tahsin Shamma, in a review for Board Game Quest, states that Great Western Trail is an amazing, complex game and that a first-time play "is best with 2 players, but later games are more exciting with 3–4 players". [4] Shamma also stated that the game's components are utilitarian, but the art and iconography is impressive. [4]
2011 Golden Geek Board Game of the Year Winner [10] 2011 Golden Geek Best Strategy Board Game Winner [10] It has been reprinted in 2011, 2012, 2014 and 2018. [1] As of 31 March 2021 Dominant Species is GMT's 3rd best top selling game, after Commands & Colors: Ancients and Twilight Struggle. [11] The artwork has been revamped. Joe Jones states that
An abstract strategy game is a board, card or other game where game play does not simulate a real world theme, and a player's decisions affect the outcome.Many abstract strategy games are also combinatorial, i.e. they provide perfect information, and rely on neither physical dexterity nor random elements such as rolling dice or drawing cards or tiles.
Agricola is a Euro-style board game created by Uwe Rosenberg. It is a worker placement game with a focus on resource management. In Agricola, players are farmers who sow, plow the fields, collect wood, build stables, buy animals, expand their farms and feed their families. After 14 rounds players calculate their score based on the size and ...