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Les jeux moins exigeants sont-ils plus populaires?

01 juil 19 Christian Lemay

 Every time a journalist or radio host interviews me, they invariably ask me why there has been such a resurgence of interest in board games. Rediscovering human contact and the desire to avoid screens are the kinds of answers that the media like to hear (yes, yes, it’s always best to tell the media what they want to hear). But is there more to it than that…?I’d like to propose another hypothesis here: games today are less confrontational because they measure us subjectively rather than objectively.

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Board Game Stats et la 'valeur' d'un jeu

02 juin 19 Christian Lemay

 I downloaded the Board Game Stats app at the beginning of January.https://www.bgstatsapp.com/This tool allows me to keep track of ALL the statistics of every board game that I play: how many plays of which games, with whom, when, where…? How long did the games take, who won, with how many points, and a ton of other information that we don’t really need. A tool for total geeks. Like me.

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Le paradoxe des jeux “finis” contre la surconsommation

19 mai 19 Christian Lemay

 In the face of the explosion of excellent games that release each and every year, we (gaming enthusiasts) buy (a lot!) more games now than we did 10 or 15 years ago. Even when we do our best to control ourselves, we see our friends busily backing 3 Kickstarters every week, going to endless festivals and conventions, and of course, bringing back all the hot-ticket games that generated buzz and were “absolute must-haves.”The result of this glut of titles is that we end up playing each game far fewer times, regardless of the quality of the game or how much happiness it brings us.

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2019: l'année à venir!

01 jan 19 Christian Lemay

 I’m very pleased to wish you all a happy 2019. I hope that you are able to do all the ‘stuff’ that is most important to you in the coming year. :)As I usually do in my ‘civilian life,’ I use January to give myself objectives to achieve before the end of that year. Some have to do with numbers, like the end-of-year sales figures, or the number of subscribers to our Facebook page. Others tend to be actions (in the broadest sense of the word) to be taken. For example, publishing a certain game, reviewing our production methods, or putting in place some marketing technique.

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Fundado en 2006, el Masked Scorpion es un editor de juegos de mesa de Montreal que ofrece juegos simples y originales: Zombie Kidz Evolution, Decrypto, Stay Cool, The Hunt for Monsters, J'te gage que ... / Bluff Fiesta, señorita Poutine ... Encontramos nuestros juegos en más de 20 idiomas, en alrededor de cuarenta países.