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WHO IS EXCITED ABOUT RUHRSCHIFFAHRT?
Dogmatix wrote: It's a little weird that a game that's not yet been published has already won an award--the Hippodice Award, which means absolutely nothing to me but probably should to You Guys Who Write About Games. This some sort of prototyping competition or what?
Sounds like my job. Hippodice is a prototype competition. It is fairly old, pretty respected in Germany, and has a slower multi-level process that takes something like 4 months. They do an initial screening of rules, two playtests among the Hippodice organizers, and present a number of games to the final panel who are mostly Germany publishers.
A number of the finalists end up getting published, and the Hippodice claim to fame is Mississippi Queen (which also netted a Spiel des Jahres.
I actually entered one year with two games. One made it to the final round (Arcana Arcanissima), and one just missed it (Evil Geniuses, which was finally published as Nodwick).
brettboard.dk/lib/award/hip00.htm
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What kind of an asshat would buy that, and what kind of truly mental fuckwit would get excited about it? I mean, the name alone is fucking ridiculous.
As an aside, where the hell did the moniker "These Games Of Ours" come from?
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SebastianBludd wrote: Everyone knows that the only decent European canal board game will be based on the Duke of Sully's construction of the Briare Canal in France from 1602 to 1642. What a fuckin' noob.
Ok, this is the winning post thus far.
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SuperflyTNT wrote:
As an aside, where the hell did the moniker "These Games Of Ours" come from?
Oh yeah that name. Before there was Boardgamegeek, the most general open discussion was a mailing list called Spielfreaks (Which is still around I think).
There was a week long discussion about what to call German Games, Eurogames, Designer Games, and These Games of Ours. The last three "won" with German Games falling immediately by the wayside. I think the general concensus at the time was that Designer Games was the best choice because the games encouraged putting the designer's name on the cover. You see how long that name lasted. Eurogames was considered bad because it dissed the Americans.
Me. I got bored, decided to call them Games, and rolled my eyes and sighed a lot.
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You really are a latecomer to this hobby.SuperflyTNT wrote: As an aside, where the hell did the moniker "These Games Of Ours" come from?
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moofrank wrote: There was a week long discussion about what to call German Games, Eurogames, Designer Games, and These Games of Ours. The last three "won" with German Games falling immediately by the wayside. I think the general concensus at the time was that Designer Games was the best choice because the games encouraged putting the designer's name on the cover. You see how long that name lasted. Eurogames was considered bad because it dissed the Americans.
Meh. I always figured it was a reference to The Godfather ("this thing of ours...") since the snobs couldn't come up with something that worked from a Bergman reference (Through a Game Darkly? These Games Can't Happen Here?)
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Schweig! wrote:
You really are a latecomer to this hobby.SuperflyTNT wrote: As an aside, where the hell did the moniker "These Games Of Ours" come from?
No, I just never much gave a fuck about the interwebz chatter. I enjoy wathcing people implode, but watchng nerds become elitiists about their nerdy shit is just sad.
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Schweig! wrote:
You really are a latecomer this hobby of ours.SuperflyTNT wrote: As an aside, where the hell did the moniker "These Games Of Ours" come from?
Here, fixed that for you.
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But that title...mercy...
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