I am playing quite a few betas right now, but I don’t want to talk about them. Mostly because I can’t, they are connected to work and clients and there are real serious beta testers doing their jobs and anything I say would muck up the whole thing. I will say that I am privileged [...]
Entries Tagged as 'History'
Road to Enlightenment, Gateway to Learning
October 13th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Board Games, Design, History
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Epilogue: Nations as Characters
August 14th, 2011 · 17 Comments · Design, Feature:Nations, History
What this is about, including full list of posts. When I started the national character series last fall, I didn’t expect it to take this long to finish (things refused to cooperate for quite some time) and I certainly didn’t expect it to become one of my most popular series. The popularity is largely connected [...]
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The Also Rans of National Character
August 12th, 2011 · 9 Comments · Feature:Nations, History
What this is about, including full list. Lists suck because they are open to the easy criticism that something was left out or that the list maker didn’t consider X. Even when I stated openly my reasons for the list I chose (using the original nations in Civilization because it was easy and final), I [...]
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The Zulu National Character
August 10th, 2011 · 8 Comments · Feature:Nations, History
What this is about, including full list. In the opening chapter of Making Empire: Colonial Encounters and the Creation of Imperial Rule in Nineteenth-Century Africa, Richard Price notes that even though the Xhosa are the most politically powerful tribe in South Africa and that British African policy in the 19th century was largely in response [...]
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The Russian National Character
August 7th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Feature:Nations, History
What this is about, including full list. Though I never believed the Soviet Union to be an unmitigated evil full of Commie robots ready to destroy all that we in the West stood for, it was impossible to grow up in the 1980s and not have a sense that Russia and Russians were weird. The [...]
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The Roman National Character
August 1st, 2011 · 11 Comments · Feature:Nations, History
What this is about, including full list. Long time readers will know that I extensively covered Roman games in my first ever feature series, one that did not take nine months to write because life was better then and I wrote more quickly and I played more games. The epilogue to that group of essays [...]
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