BoardGameGeek

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BoardGameGeek
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OwnerScott Alden
URLboardgamegeek.com Edit this at Wikidata
LaunchedJanuary 2000; 21 years ago (2000-01)

BoardGameGeek (BGG) is an online forum for board gaming hobbyists and a game database that holds reviews, images and videos for over 125,600 different tabletop games, including European-style board games, wargames, and card games.[1] In addition to the game database, the site allows users to rate games on a 1–10 scale and publishes a ranked list of board games.[2][3][4] According to Brett Boge,[5] the website...

...consists of a database of more than fifty thousand board games along with their developers and players. The games themselves are heavily linked to the users through lists called GeekLists, along with owned/played/wanted etc. connections, ratings, reviews, session reports and other information (both quantitative and qualitative). The data also contains information regarding the games themselves include genre, number of players, difficulty, length etc.

As of 10 March 2019, boardgamegeek.com has an Alexa rank of 1,745.[6]

As of July 2021, Gloomhaven is its highest rated game.[7]

History[]

BoardGameGeek was founded in January 2000 by Scott Alden and Derk Solko,[8] and marked its 20th anniversary on 20 January 2020.[9]

Since 2006, the site annually awards the best new board games of the year with the Golden Geek Award. Winners are selected based on a vote by registered users.[10]

Since 2005, BoardGameGeek hosts an annual board game convention, BGG.CON, that has a focus on playing games, and where winners of the Golden Geek Awards are announced. New games are showcased and convention staff is provided to teach rules.[11] There is also an annual Spring BGG.CON which is family friendly, and an annual BGG@Sea which is held on a cruise.

In 2010, BoardGameGeek received the Diana Jones Award, which recognized it as "a resource without peer for board and card gamers, the recognized authority of this online community."[12] The New York Times has called BoardGameGeek "the hub of board gaming on the internet."[13]

In 2020, BoardGameGeek was inducted into the Origins Award Hall of Fame.[14]

The site has branched out into other fields by using the same system for RPGs and video games (rpggeek.com and videogamegeek.com).

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Woods, Stewart (2009). Eurogames: The Design, Culture and Play of Modern European Board Games. McFarland. ISBN 978-0786467976.
  2. ^ Riese, Monica (2016-09-25). "The 10 best board games for families". The Daily Dot. Archived from the original on 2019-05-26. Retrieved 2016-11-10.
  3. ^ Roeder, Oliver (2015-01-22). "Stop Playing Monopoly With Your Kids (And Play These Games Instead)". FiveThirtyEight. Archived from the original on 2019-05-26. Retrieved 2016-11-10.
  4. ^ Anderson, Nate. "Pandemic Legacy is the best board game ever—but is it "fun?"". Ars Technica. Archived from the original on 2021-03-08. Retrieved 2016-11-10.
  5. ^ Boge, Brett. "A Hybrid Recommender System Using Link Analysis and Genetic Tuning in the Bipartite Network of BoardGameGeek.com" (PDF). www.academia.edu. Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Nevada, Reno Reno, Nevada: University of Nevada. p. 1. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  6. ^ https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/boardgamegeek.com; retrieved: 10 March 2019.
  7. ^ "Gloomhaven". boardgamegeek.com. BGG. Archived from the original on 30 June 2021. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
  8. ^ Woods, Stewart (2012). Eurogames: The Design, Culture and Play of Modern European Board Games. McFarland. p. 121. ISBN 9780786490653.
  9. ^ Damerst, Lincoln (20 January 2020). "Happy 20th Anniversary BGG". Board Game Geek. Archived from the original on April 17, 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
  10. ^ Hall, Charlie (2015-02-13). "The best tabletop RPGs of 2014, finalists from Board Game Geek". Polygon. Archived from the original on 2019-05-26. Retrieved 2016-11-10.
  11. ^ Morgan, Matt. "13 New Tabletop Games for Winter - The Best of BGG Con". The Escapist. Archived from the original on 2018-11-16. Retrieved 2016-11-25.
  12. ^ "The 2010 Award for Excellence in Gaming". The Diana Jones Award. 23 May 2015. Archived from the original on 2021-03-09. Retrieved 2016-11-10.
  13. ^ Draper, Kevin (August 1, 2019). "Should Board Gamers Play the Roles of Racists, Slavers and Nazis?". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 24 February 2021. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  14. ^ "Academy - Hall of Fame". www.originsawards.net.

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