Those of you who regularly check on BGG threads may have seen this evil shopping advisory tool:
This user analyzed games that the users gave the same scores to and made a map of all those relations (like yashima scores both Naturopolis and Casinopolis the same 8/10 or something) grouped into communities. The monstrosity can be searched… like I want to see what many people rated similar to Spirit Island … and it looks like a shopping list to me… help! (I lie, the games grouped directly around Spirit Island are either on my shelves or have been rejected or ejected for various reasons)
Clicked on Cthulhu Wars. Okay. I have Glorantha: the Gods War already. The others it is connected to? Not interested. Rise of the Necromancers? Never heard, not curious.
I only just now realized that there are really two ways to clean up a wishlist:
a) removing items that maybe aren’t all that wanted… or
b) simply buying all the items on the list → voilà wishlist empty.
(I swear I didn’t do the latter, but a moment ago on steam, I was maybe a little tempted)
Interesting. Keyflower is directly linked to Innovation, Mottainai, and Impulse. Surprised to see it with Dungeon Lords and Dungeon Petz.
And, as is too often the case, this approach leads to a “what was popular in 20xx?” map. Most people have unstructured ratings rubrics and tend to cluster around 2-4 numbers for ratings, and most people really get into the hobby for a single era and then move on to other hobbies.
So looking at Tigris & Euphrates, you see Haggis and Tichu, Tikal, Ra, Acquire… Very different games but all popular around the turn of the millennium.
Yes. It seems that it’s more about the users rather than the games themselves. Which make sense, otherwise, how to group them together if not based on user data like ratings.
So the people who rate T&E highly will also be the people who likes Tikal, Puerto Rico, and Ra.
The Keyflower-Chudyk connection is not what I indeed expected.
Right - it’s expected. But it reminds me of what I’ve always wanted, which is some kind of filter like “show me only ratings that were made after playing the game five times.” Here I’d like to see a map that only has people with a threshold of ratings across three different eras or some such.
Such a filter obviously doesn’t exist (well, the latter could be engineered if the data were made available) but it would make all this markedly more interesting.
That said, I imagine looking at just more current games would be more interesting as well.
I just called the OLGS where I preordered Compile 8 months ago and asked if they could switch me to the German version that will be out in October by Pegasus. As soon as I said I was calling about Compile, she sighed… and said „Oh that one. Until 2 weeks ago we had. July date for arrival…“ I think this is the right call…
3.5", and it was a whole top (or bottom) half, so it looked like a floopy. Or the save icon (which apparently has gone away in the stuff they use at school…).
Yeah my wife (who is 9 years younger than me) was explaining floppy discs to my kids as a redundant tech (after they had done a doodle of a CD (!) as something that was old and redundant…) and then was flabbergasted herself when I talked about the PROPER floppy discs (and even I don’t remember the 8” ones!). She also never had the joy of loading from tapes!
Tapes and 5.25" floppies were the media I grew up with; but at one of my old jobs they ran some end-of-year ‘awards’ for fun (it was a small company, and I think literally everyone got one for something :), and the ‘certificates’ were all 8" floppy discs with the award title written on the label, so I have that one in a box, somewhere…
can be searched… like I want to see what many people rated similar to Spirit Island … and it looks like a shopping list to me… help! (I lie, the games grouped directly around Spirit Island are either on my shelves or have been rejected or ejected for various reasons)
