board game
Let an agent explain board games as a category, identify kinds and notable games, relay history, industry and cultural information, and distinguish physical board games from their video game adaptations and from card and role-playing games.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain board games as a category, identify kinds and notable games, relay history, industry and cultural information, and distinguish physical board games from their video game adaptations and from card and role-playing games.
A tabletop game played by moving or placing pieces on a marked board according to rules, from ancient games such as senet, go and chess through classic family games such as ludo, checkers and Monopoly to modern designer games; board games are played for recreation, competition and education, are produced by a global industry, have been adapted as video games, and have served as historical propaganda, as in games produced under the Nazi regime.
What it is for: Recreation, competition and education.
It can be explain the category and kinds; identify notable games; relay history and industry information; distinguish from adaptations and related games.
Distinguishing features
Board and pieces
Rules-based play
Ancient origins
Modern industry and hobby
What it looks like
A printed or carved board with pieces, dice, cards or tokens, in a box.
Physical character
oldest known: about 3500 BC date - senet and related games
How it is recognised
Game played on a marked board with pieces
Abstract, race, war, family and designer games
Card games have no board; video game versions are software
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms
is a kind of - in registry terms
includes - a classic example
is adapted as - in digital versions
In practice
Families and kinds
abstract strategy games such as chess, go, shogi, checkers and reversi
race and roll-and-move games such as ludo
family and mass-market games
war and simulation games
modern designer and eurogames
historical and propaganda board games, including those of the Nazi era, as a topic of study
video game adaptations
Standards and regulation
Toy safety regulations
Intellectual property in game design
Restrictions on hate symbols affecting historical propaganda games in some countries
Failure modes and hazards
Small parts hazard for children
Confusing physical games with digital versions
Presenting propaganda games without context
Also called
+20
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Identify What game this is.
Identity.
Kind
Kind and rules.
Kind
Kind.
- What kind of board game is it, and how is it played? definition
- Is the game a physical board game, a video adaptation or another tabletop game? boundary
Notable
Notable games.
Notable
Notable.
- Which board games are notable in each kind? provenance
- Which entry fits the specific game? action
History History.
Context.
Ancient
Ancient and traditional games.
Ancient
Ancient.
- How did board games develop from senet and the Royal Game of Ur to chess and go? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Propaganda
Games as propaganda.
Propaganda
Propaganda.
- How have board games served propaganda and ideology, such as under the Nazi regime, as historians describe? provenance
- Is the presentation historical and attributed? boundary
Industry Industry and design.
Sources.
Market
Market.
Market
Market.
- How large is the board game industry, and what do statistics show, with sources? measurement
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Design
Game design.
Design
Design.
- How are modern board games designed and published? provenance
- Which entry fits game design? action
Culture Culture and study.
Study.
Play
Play and society.
Play
Play.
- What do studies say about board games in education, cognition and social life? provenance
- Which entry fits game studies? action
Digital
Digital adaptations.
Digital
Digital.
- How have board games been adapted as video games and online play? provenance
- Which entry fits the specific adaptation? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should each classic game be a separate entry?
- How should industry data be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming video game adaptations and a historical category; should they be split off?