Tabletop: Analog Game Design
Tags: Drew Davidson

In this volume, people of diverse backgrounds talk about tabletop games, game culture, and the intersection of games with learning, theater, and other forms. Some have chosen to write about their design process, others about games they admire, others about the culture of tabletop games and their fans. The results are various and individual, but all cast some light on what is a multivarious and fascinating set of game styles. Much has been written about the videogame revolution, which is often portrayed as springing spontaneously from the forehead of Nolan Bushnell, like Athena from the brow of Zeus. In a scant thirty some-odd years, weve grown from nothing to one of the worlds largest entertainment forms, grossing tens of billions annually, with games being the mainstay of entertainment and acculturation for most of the planets youth.