Designer Board Games

While researching ideas for our board game project I came upon a couple of very interesting articles about "designer board games." At first I thought "designer" had to do with the beautiful design on the box. Further reading however taught me that "designer board games" are also known as German-style games. The difference between designer board games and traditional board games is that the designer games don't often rely on luck to declare a winner. Instead, the games are more focused on strategy development. Other qualities of designer board games include: simple rules, excellent replay value, and their appeal to casual gamers in addition to hard core gamers. While the "Arab Spring" game designed by Leslie Thompson and myself does have some of the qualities of a designer game, it probably is more closely related to a traditional board game. http://boardgames.about.com/od/news/a/designer_games.htm http://geekgold.com/2011/02/27/designer-board-games/