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WHO IS EXCITED ABOUT RUHRSCHIFFAHRT?

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22 Sep 2012 22:08 #134874 by moofrank

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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23 Sep 2012 05:20 #134878 by Dr. Mabuse
Wow, I still have no idea what game this is.

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23 Sep 2012 11:04 - 23 Sep 2012 11:05 #134880 by repoman
Look at that image. It's like board game porn. You know if seeing a dour man working the locks on a canal is the kind of thing that gets you going. And let's face it, it is.

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23 Sep 2012 12:43 #134881 by SuperflyPete
OMFG. All this time I thought Michael had made it up. That it was a crack on all the Eurolitists. But no, this abortion actually exists.

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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23 Sep 2012 13:49 #134883 by Stormcow
To be fair, if you translate and localize RUHRSCHIFFAHRT, it's something like "Mississippi Boat Ride", which is not too far from a decent title like "Mississippi River Queen".

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23 Sep 2012 15:17 #134890 by SebastianBludd
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.
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23 Sep 2012 17:57 #134897 by Dogmatix

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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23 Sep 2012 21:59 #134902 by moofrank

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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23 Sep 2012 23:17 - 23 Sep 2012 23:24 #134903 by Schweig!

SuperflyTNT wrote: As an aside, where the hell did the moniker "These Games Of Ours" come from?

You really are a latecomer to this hobby.
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24 Sep 2012 00:53 #134906 by Jackwraith

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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24 Sep 2012 01:33 #134907 by Shellhead

repoman wrote: Look at that image. It's like board game porn. You know if seeing a dour man working the locks on a canal is the kind of thing that gets you going. And let's face it, it is.


Sigmund Freud could have a field day with that cover. If he wasn't dead.
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24 Sep 2012 01:40 #134908 by SuperflyPete

Schweig! wrote:

SuperflyTNT wrote: As an aside, where the hell did the moniker "These Games Of Ours" come from?

You really are a latecomer to this hobby.


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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24 Sep 2012 07:28 #134917 by mads b.

Schweig! wrote:

SuperflyTNT wrote: As an aside, where the hell did the moniker "These Games Of Ours" come from?

You really are a latecomer this hobby of ours.


Here, fixed that for you.

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24 Sep 2012 09:44 #134918 by wice
If things go as usual, in six months Michael will praise this game for its "beautiful integration of the theme" and its "emergent gameplay".
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24 Sep 2012 12:45 #134919 by san il defanso
No one throw any tomatoes, but I actually might like this one. I tend to like thinky Euros like this.

But that title...mercy...

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