10 Times Board Games Got In Your Video Games

Posted on March 12, 2018March 3, 2018 Posted in 10 Board Game ReferencesTagged Assassins Creed, Beyond Good and Evil, Blast Radius, Cards, Chess, D&D, Dragon Age: Origins, Fable 3, Fallout 4, Final Fantasy 8, Hearthstone, Hollows and Hobbes, Kepesh-Yakshi, Legend of Zelda, Majora's Mask, Mass Effect 3, Monty, Nine Men's Morris, Poker, The Sims, Triple Triad, Wicked Grace, World of WarcraftLeave a comment

Don’t you love it when designers put games in your game so you can game while you game? Whether board games are used to enhance the setting, make a joke, or change the pace of a video game, these ten video games add a little analog gameplay to their digital narratives.

1. Assassin’s Creed III – Nine Men’s Morris

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Nine Men’s Morris is a very old game, at least as old as the Holy Roman Empire. So when a member of an ancient order of Assassins encounters the game in colonial New England it evokes a light touch of history and mystery. Continue reading “10 Times Board Games Got In Your Video Games” →

10 Times Board Games Got Into Your SitComs

Posted on February 12, 2018March 3, 2018 Posted in 10 Board Game ReferencesTagged big bang theory, catan, ChardeeMacDennis, Chess, community, D&D, frasier, friends, HIMYM, how i met your mother, it's always sunny in philadelphia, king of queens, marshgammon, parks and rec, risk, seinfeld, sorry, strip, television, the cones of dunshire, the fresh prince of bel air, the game of gamesLeave a comment

Sitcoms rely on characters to be successful. Well, often they rely on stale jokes and a distracted audience, but good sitcoms rely on characters. We only care about the plot if we care about the people the plot is happening to. There are a lot of ways we learn about characters, but few are as clever or as interesting as watching them play a board game. Take a look at 10 examples of board games in your favorite sitcoms.

1. Community | S2E14 – D&D

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There are enough board game references in Community to warrant its own list, but none so moving as the first Dungeons and Dragons episode. Continue reading “10 Times Board Games Got Into Your SitComs” →

Five Fave Board Game References

Posted on January 29, 2018March 3, 2018 Posted in Fave FiveTagged Buffy, D&D, Dungeons and Dragons, Jenga, Pokermon, Remnant Board Game, rwby, Stranger Things, t.v., TMNT, Turtles, Video Game Highschool, webshows

January has 5 weeks in it, so this week I’m giving a little extra. In no particular order, here are 5 of my favorite board game references.

1. Stranger Things | S1E1 – D&D

Taking a page from E.T., Stranger Things opens on a group of kids playing Dungeons and Dragon. Beyond the 80’s set dressing, D&D becomes the lens through which our protagonists understand the supernatural happenings around them. Continue reading “Five Fave Board Game References” →

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