But the designer has offered you the game as a whole, a gift of artistry and craft. If you want to engage critically, it should be taken comprehensively, loved or hated as such, not sneered at and stripped for parts so you only have to engage with the parts that you deem worthy of mattering. 3/4
I'll more about board games soon, loudly and passionately, with care and thought. I love games because I can inhabit them and marvel at the intended and emergent wonders created. If you've dismissed the art of board games, I'm inviting you to look again. You'll be surprised by what you missed. 4/4
Credit for this manifesto goes to @jdragsky.bsky.social for inspiring this fervor in me, and to @amabel.bsky.social for incredible video essays about this wonderful hobby that set my brain aflame- go watch this video that's been living in my brain rent-free for months www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG4z...
BEAUTIFULLY stated! As a game and art enthisiast that regretfully has overlooked boardgames but recently began admiring many for their box arts, this post makes me wanna look more into them and give this video a watch ☺️