Reading 4: Analysis

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This week I got a great tip from Irene to check out a guy called Scott Nicholson, who is an American Professor of Game Design & Development at Wilfrid Laurier University in Brantford, Ontario. His writings, which were all mostly available for free on his website seemed to be a treasure trove of useful information where pre digital gaming was involved.

His YouTube channel is pretty interesting, check it out here.

The first of his writings that I read was an excerpt from his book "Reframing Gaming" where he talks about the history of libraries offering the public chances at gaming, only unlike today where you can enter a library and get your hands on a pre owned copy of FIFA 17, people in the 1800s would visit their libraries to play games like scrabble or chess. The text also reminded me of another vital aspect of pre digital gaming that I had completely overlooked. Card games.

Other than the odd poker night I never really play card games so I had to have a look aroud to research the history of playing cards and the impact they have on modern gaming. I came across this interesting and quick video on the subject.

Check it out here.

After watching it I started thinking about magicians but I think I might be going off track now so I'm gonna go back to board games for next week.


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