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mistre
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Boardgaming.com
« on: Aug 19th, 2011, 10:15am » |
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Recently I was contacted by someone in the boardgaming community and invited to a private beta to a brand new website for discovering new games called boardgaming.com. I checked it out and was very impressed by what I saw.
The site is very well layed out and visually pleasing. For a past user of boardgamegeek, it was like a breath of fresh air. In my opinion, BGG has become overly complex to use and there is too much going on visually on every screen.
Boardgaming.com also has a meta-game system where you can earn experience and levels in five categories for completing certain tasks. It also has a follow feature, so you can follow other gamers that you are interested in. You can rate games, review games, rate reviews, list games owned (shown graphically on your profile), offer tips and strategies, etc. The site only has about 230 games listed so far, but they will continue to add new ones. I will be definitely be lobbying for them to add Arimaa 
If this sounds at all interesting to you, please let me know and I will send an invite to you. Please let me the email you want the invite sent to.
If you join - you can follow me @markmistr.
Thanks,
Mark
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UruramTururam
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Re: Boardgaming.com
« Reply #1 on: Aug 23rd, 2011, 4:41am » |
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Yep, lobbying for Arimaa there is a good idea. Another group of people to get hooked. 
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SpeedRazor
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Re: Boardgaming.com
« Reply #2 on: Aug 23rd, 2011, 1:33pm » |
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on Aug 19th, 2011, 10:15am, mistre wrote:
If this sounds at all interesting to you, please let me know and I will send an invite to you. Please let me the email you want the invite sent to. |
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Wow, that sounds interesting Mistre. I'm a big fan of BGG, and I believe that it hasn't scaled-up all that elegantly since it was first conceived. Not their fault, I think. Who'da thunk that it would have gotten so popular, so fast?
[zephyrgeist at yahoo dot com]
Thnx in advance 
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UruramTururam
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Re: Boardgaming.com
« Reply #3 on: Aug 23rd, 2011, 1:47pm » |
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By the way I think that we, Arimaaers, should form a kind of lobby there. Starting from "following" each other could be a good beginning.
My nick there "urtur", full version "Ururam Tururam". Post yours here and I'll follow.
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Re: Boardgaming.com
« Reply #4 on: Aug 23rd, 2011, 2:03pm » |
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I would like an invite to boardgaming.com
valdonamas...et...gmail...com
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Re: Boardgaming.com
« Reply #5 on: Aug 23rd, 2011, 2:34pm » |
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I wouldn't mind one either, <username>@<google'smailservice>
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mistre
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Re: Boardgaming.com
« Reply #6 on: Aug 24th, 2011, 2:03pm » |
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Invites sent - let me know if you don't get them. Also, you need to register by Sep 1 as that marks the end of the open beta period.
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dree12
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Re: Boardgaming.com
« Reply #9 on: Sep 9th, 2011, 6:08pm » |
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on Sep 9th, 2011, 4:40pm, UruramTururam wrote:
Why is "LUCK" in the info section? Arimaa is a perfect-information determanistic game.
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Re: Boardgaming.com
« Reply #10 on: Sep 10th, 2011, 8:08am » |
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There's only a placeholder for the luck factor which should - of course - be 0 in the case of Arimaa.
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Re: Boardgaming.com
« Reply #11 on: Oct 6th, 2011, 2:21am » |
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There are people there who start to get interested in Arimaa.
But - hey - there are a few of us there and why I'm the only one to review our game and write tips for it? Huh?
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Re: Boardgaming.com
« Reply #12 on: Oct 17th, 2011, 11:48am » |
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Just an update, they've re-opened signups so if you want to join, contact mistre for an invite (I don't want to steal his invites, he was first to post here after all ).
I definitely encourage at least a few people joining in and posting reviews and tips for Arimaa. I've only played the game for a couple of weeks, so I haven't felt qualified to write a review, yet.
Also, if you join and would like to follow me, you can @Dolus
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