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Want: board game ratings that rate the quality of the game mechanics, the complexity, BUT ALSO: how much the game is pro-colonialism.
I love BGs but it is overwhelming how many games bring in colonialism uncritically, esp in games you don't expect to.
#ColonialismInBoardGames
I love BGs but it is overwhelming how many games bring in colonialism uncritically, esp in games you don't expect to.
#ColonialismInBoardGames
Some egregiously colonial games like Puerto Rico do get some (not enough) flack for pro-colonialism
But from what I can tell, "light colonialism" games like Through the Ages or Twilight Struggle (neocolonialism) don't seem to get commensurate discussion? #ColonialismInBoardGames
But from what I can tell, "light colonialism" games like Through the Ages or Twilight Struggle (neocolonialism) don't seem to get commensurate discussion? #ColonialismInBoardGames
Been thinking a lot in recent months about how CS education teaches people to render technical (see: https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/67587/1/rendering-society-technical.pdf + @sdbreslin 's work) and now realizing that board games *also* do a lot to get ppl to render technical. 
Currently liking & mulling over this post on how video & board games fail in their representations of Mahatma Gandhi: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/04/22/how-video-games-consistently-fail-gandhi/
quote: "If a game is to include him, it would have to be leading populist movements against the player."
quote: "If a game is to include him, it would have to be leading populist movements against the player."
