The Wonderful World of Board Games! Episode 1: A brief History and the Current Renaissance

In this first episode of my Board Game Teaching series, I give a brief history of board games and talk about the current phenomena that is being called a Golden Age. The board game explosion!

Stay tuned for Episode 2: Gateway Games!

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The talk that largely inspired this

Geek and Sundry

Star Trek Catan Episode of Tabletop:

other info:
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[davidko]

Great set of links.

I didn't know LV had multiple board game cafes. I'm indirectly familiar with Meepleville, but glad to hear about Ground Swell too.

[frederick]

Not a bad introduction to the series. Might be better, if you had some examples of the things you describe on the screen, when you talk about it. If someone doesn't really know the difference between euro and ameritrash, it could be helpful to show main differences.

Other than that, I agreed with a lot of stuff you have said, and I think that "board game renaissance" is here due to channels like yours and many others, bringing all the knowledge and love for the hobby to the masses. I for example, started out with D&D, and only after I saw few videos of WIll Wheaton's Table Top series I started to move to board games.

[tmf]

Love the topics you chose to tackle. Definitely subscribing for more.
Maybe a constructive feedback. The segment covering the directions for Catan was too long and possibly unnecessary. You talked about it to show the audience how different a Euro game is from an American style game. A full tutorial is not needed. Instead, it will be better served with a Catan and Life game being set up next to each other and you can draw the difference explicitly and use those differences to explain the rise in board gaming as you have explained later.
Of course, you’re not doing this again but a reflection of future videos. I assume viewers are watching you for your incite of the growing trend and not for a tutorial. Just provide the tutorial link if they are truly interested in the game.
I’m excited for more!