The board game Frosthaven has become Kickstarter’s “most-funded board game on the site ever, with nearly $13 million pledged toward funding the game’s development,” reports NPR. “Only two projects have ever crowdsourced more funding on the site.” NPR sees a larger trend:
Frosthaven’s success seemed to exemplify a shift that has been happening in the tabletop gaming community for years: toward games…
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Board Games Are Getting Really, Really Popular
An anonymous reader shares a report: Jonathan Kay, co-author of the new book Your Move: What Board Games Teach Us About Life, has largely given up on movies and TV, and has instead made tabletop gaming his primary mode of recreation. “It has a social function in my life, and an intellectual function,” Kay says in Episode 392 of the Geek’s…