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Detailed view of the board during Terra Mystica gameplay. A Eurogame, also called a German-style board game, German game, or Euro-style game (generally just referred to as board games in Europe), is a class of tabletop games that generally features indirect player interaction, lacks player elimination, and provides multiple ways to score points. [1]
Eurogamer (initially stylised as EuroGamer) was launched on 4 September 1999 under company Eurogamer Network.The founding team included John Bye, the webmaster for the PlanetQuake website and a writer for British magazine PC Gaming World; Patrick Stokes, a contributor for the website Warzone; and Rupert Loman, who had organised the EuroQuake esports event for the game Quake.
Eurogames is a publisher of board games, founded in 1984 as Jeux Rexton (Rexton Games) to publish the man-to-man miniature combat game, Cry Havoc and its expansions. In 1988 Duccio Vitale expanded the company to begin publishing more board games, starting with six games purchased from the bankrupt Italian gaming company, International Team.
It is considered a classic of the Eurogame genre, [3] [4] and is cited as one of the most influential board games of the last decade. [5] It uses dice rolling and dice placement, a modular setup, and set collection as its mechanics. [6] The dice and the ability to change them give players a wide range of options. [7]
Ticket to Ride is a series of turn-based strategy railway-themed Eurogames [27] designed by Alan R. Moon, the first of which was released in 2004 by Days of Wonder.As of 2024, 18 million copies of the game have been sold worldwide and it has been translated into 33 languages. [28]
EuroGames flag presented at the opening ceremony in Bern in 2023 Ballroom dancing competition, female latin senior category, EuroGames 2022 Nijmegen. The EuroGames are an LGBT+ multi-sport event in Europe, licensed by the EGLSF (European Gay and Lesbian Sport Federation) to a local city host each year and organised (most often) by one or more of the federation's member clubs.
Stefan Feld (born 1970 in Karlsruhe, Germany) is a German-style board game designer who lives in Gengenbach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. [1] [2] [3]Feld is considered one of the most prominent designers of the Eurogame genre.
Event Dates Venue Country Eurogamer Expo 2008 28–29 October 2008 [3]: Old Truman Brewery, London: United Kingdom: Eurogamer Expo 2009 27–28 October 2009 [5]: Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds