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Board Games in Academia V
Abstracts
James L. Polczynski
An Evolution of the Modern Board War Game
The birth of the modern board war game is attributed to the Avalon
Hill game company in the United Sates in the 1950s. This paper examines
various proprietary games produced primarily in the United States and
England from the early 1900s until 1953. Focus centers on the concepts
expressed in the game designs and the mechanisms used to execute the
designs. These are then mapped onto the modern board war game. The modern
board war game is described more in terms of the next "logical" progression
in a long evolutionary tract, than in terms of a distinct break from
traditional designs. The proprietary board game market is directed to the
populace and intended to realize a profit. It is interesting to study the
efforts of various game designers as they must have struggled to translate
the complexities of actual war and conflict into the compact form of the
board game and have it be manageable to play.
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