09 September 2009

In the Hope of Sparking Some Discussion

There's a conversation from a while back over at BoardGameGeek about "Why people have no interest in Wargames"...
Posted by Brant at 13:57

1 comment:

Brian Train said...

Truly, a discussion that presents most of the arguments I have been reading on the subject for the last 15-20 years quite succinctly.

About the only motion that appears on this topic is comment on the increasing sophistication and immersive quality of computer games. The sour observations about how we live in a degerating society with ever-decreasing attention spans and kids who can't write or add were probably first written on the wall of a tomb 5,000 years ago (though this is the thesis I cleave to, when I'm having a bad week).

Honestly, I don't have the final answer to this question, except that there certainly isn't just one answer. Children can be inveigled into playing board wargames - the toy factor helps - but there are so many distractions nowadays I can see why it usually doesn't stick.

17 September, 2009 18:57

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