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When digital versions of board games surpass the originals

Former Firaxis designer Soren Johnson breaks down the appeal of digital board games, and explains why the digital versions can be better than their physical counterparts, in this opinion piece originally printed in Game Developer magazine’s August 2012 issue. If video games and board games are cousins, then they are starting to behave like they belong to the European aristocracy. The two formats are intermixing such that the artificial line separating the two is blurring, …