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Good & interesting BGG blogpost on 5 Schools of Design
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You forgot to mention "theme."Mad Dog wrote:
Bull Nakano wrote: I don't think mechanics can inherently be Euro/AT/German/whatever.
Design philosophy might be a better term than mechanic. I don't really care though. These topics have been analyzed non-stop for the past decade on BGG. The truth is Euro, AT, and German games are just labels with no real meaning. Since everyone in the hobby has different definitions of them and because nobody outside the hobby gives a shit.
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Shellhead wrote: The pictures are saying some things that are not explicitly mentioned in the article. The only person clearly having fun is the girl in the first Ameritrash picture. The people playing the German Family Game don't look especially engaged or entertained. The guys in the EuroGame picture are completely disengaged from each other and are all lost in solitary thought. They look like they are at a meeting at work and just received a complex report.
"Fun" is not the same as "hootin' and hollerin'", or even "smiling". I have a lot of fun playing Chess, or playing competitive Magic, despite not smiling very often. Getting completely lost in the flow of a game, completely focused on it and forgetting everything about the rest of the world: that is fun in and of itself. That's the kind of fun a Eurogame is usually shooting for, I think. How much do you smile when playing Dark Souls? How much do you smile during a really scary horror movie? Not much, and to an outside observer in both cases it might look like you're more upset than anything else. But they're both fun because you intensely lose yourself into the game/film.
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You'll have to take it to Mr Webster then!Shellhead wrote: Silent intense concentration doesn't look like fun, because it isn't actually fun, not by any reasonable definition.
Really, it's a silly semantic debate and Dragonstout is right that you don't need to laugh and smile to have fun, that's just a reduction of meaning. And hey, is there anything less fun than telling people they aren't actually having it?
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