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Why Don't We Have Better Furniture For Board Games?
Armani Casa's new Borgonuovo games table is gorgeous—but it made me wonder why we don't design furniture for the board games we actually play today.
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Really Bad Chess is bad in all the right ways
You’re taking a walk in Central Park. The sun is shining down on you, a stark contrast to the cool autumn wind that tickles the back of your neck. It’s a reminder that change is coming. As you stroll past the row of chess tables, you see two elderly men hunched over and glaring at each other with an
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A game about pretending to play chess is all about performance
It really is as if you were playing chess, except Pippin Barr’s newest game It is as if you were playing chess doesn’t include a chess board. There are no pawns, Kings, or Queens. No pieces at all, really—just instructions. Move this dot here. Look here. Now here. Tilt your head and cringe. Move aga
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Ancient India: The Birthplace of Modern Game Design
This article is part of a collaboration with iQ by Intel Ancient India produced some of the oldest and longest surviving games in history, and though the country’s videogame creators face modern day challenges, its contributions to game design are undeniable. They’ve gone by many different names and
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Tinder matchmaking is more like Warcraft than you might think
“Don’t hate the player, hate the game,” says the pick-up artist. “I’ve just got more game than you,” says your roommate who wears too much cologne. Comparisons between dating and gaming are commonplace in our web-obsessed culture, and thanks to a recent profile on Tinder from Fast Company, it turns
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Chesh reinvents Chess for the people
Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. Chesh (iOS) Damian Sommer It seems nothing is safe from the dubstep-happy clutches of remix culture, not even the ancient and tried game of chess. Damian Sommer’s new iOS game Chesh can be tho
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Chesh is the drunken, rule-breaking sister of Chess
What would happen if Chess could get drunk? Would the knight fall off their horse? Would the queen take a fancy to one of the pawns? Would the rook go diagonally? This is what the slur-titled Chesh looks to explore. It’s the next game from Damian Sommer, who has already mixed up the choose-your-own-
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Best Chess uses all its computational power just to mess with your mind
The computer is thinking…
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Splendor exhibits all the challenges of going from tabletop to tablet
Does a great boardgame make a great videogame? Not necessarily.
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How to make a 1500 year old game interesting again
Damian Sommer’s chess breaks what may’ve already been broken.
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BoxPop brings out the chessmaster mathematician in you
In chess, there’s something known as a “a knight’s tour.” It’s a sequence of moves around the board where the knight visits every square only once and the problem has been a challenge for mathematicians to solve it since Swiss physicist Leonhard Euler tackled it the 18th century. If you didn’t know,
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Videogame based on Borges short story is in fact Borgesian
Solve the riddles of Borges’s A Garden of Forking Paths in this enigmatic videogame.