Thank you for that. I was unaware of the site and it’s always nice to see some intelligent writing about board games. There isn’t a great deal.
I talked with a restaurant owner about this a while ago. They have a preferred app/web vendor, and are on a bunch of others. Their preferred vendor charges them a subscription fee, and a lowish commission for app or online orders. (They also provide the POS for in-person or phone orders, and have some gateway to get the other app’s orders into the POS.) The price charged is lowest if you use that service (or pick up the phone and call them), other apps have menu prices that are higher, and more-or-less cover the apps fee.). they’d rather not have to deal with all the apps, but the worry is people don’t say “lets order from $Foo” and figure out how to do it, they open their preferred app, and browse. So restaurants feel pressure to be on all platforms, even if they’d rather not be.
For smaller places, I make a point of asking them how they want orders, and then trying to do it that way. Most of the time it’s “phone”, but you have to be sure you’re using a real phone number. Some of the apps (like, oh, Grubhub) publish fake numbers, which they forward to the real phone, and charge commission for the mis-service. (those numbers are often repeated at sites like Yelp…) There was a stink about this, because they were attempting to charge the commision for all calls (because they have no way of knowing if an order got placed or if it’s just a call to ask “are you open?”). I dont’ know the current state of the practice.
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I saw this in a local community board game project place near me and was rather taken with it. I know it’s very arguable with because we all have our opinions, but I like the idea and it’s very helpful for people faced with the huge wall o’ games we have nowadays.
There are things I’d argue with (I think Sagrada is much better multiplayer than solo and I wouldn’t recommend the solo game to someone trying it for the first time) but I think this is an excellent idea, even if it’ll need to be updated every few years.
I find Mansions of Madness misplaced on the chart at this point, as you can’t buy the first edition anymore which is a one vs. many game, and the second edition is an app-based fully co-op game. Same with Unfathomable, where some players are human, others are cultists or hybrids, and they have different winning conditions, so it’s impossible for “all players” to win.
Beyond that, this is a really cool idea!
And it must be no earlier than 2021, as it mentions The Adventures of Robin Hood as well as Unfathomable.
A solution to all your boardgame snack issues…
the real solution is Haribos, Pretzels and Butterkekse without Chocolate 
And you still can’t drink beer with those things.
Not with that attitude you can’t
Even the fake conference spam I get at work isn’t inviting me to Orlando any more.
I’ve been roped into doing hurricane flood footprints at work this week, which is not remotely part of my usual job.
I hope everyone here is experiencing only a normal amount of wet and/or windy weather
Not where i was expecting boardgames to turn up. Apparently it’s big in quite a few teams in the NFL
and they get competitive… sounds nice overall. maybe someone should introduce them to a few more games. what do you think? which games would be best for an NFL team?
I remember reading a few years back how the Green Bay Packers always took a copy of Catan along with them on the road as a way to spend their down time in another city doing something. The subtext was that it was something that wasn’t a bar or a club, etc. But also how some players got really invested in the game and it was a good team building exercise.
“Okay, Jordan, just pass me the sheep. I’ll even go long if it’ll help you, just pass me the damn sheep, I need them!”
That’s how I envision it.
TBF, playing Catan must be better than having to listen to Aaron Rodgers
My wildest (only?) board game design pitch is that I am fairly confident you could take a relatively large chunk of the ideas in John Company and reimplement them as an American football management simulation game, with players fulfilling different roles in a team organisation. I often think about how or even if it would work, with different players playing the offensive/defensive/special coordinator, head coach, owner, etc.
I’d play that