the future of board gaming and other types of gaming?

Taisen · January 6th, 2006

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Entertaible concept: combination of electronic gaming and traditional board games

The Entertaible concept is a tabletop gaming platform that marries traditional multi-player board and computer games in a uniquely simple and intuitive way. Entertaible comprises a 30-inch horizontal LCD, sophisticated touch screen-based multi-object position detection, and all supporting control electronics. It allows the players to engage in a new class of electronic games which combines the features of computer gaming, such as dynamic playing fields and gaming levels, with the social interaction and tangible playing pieces, such as pawns and dies, of traditional board games.

Initially aimed at the out-of-home game market such as restaurants, bars, and casinos, Entertaible has the potential to evolve into a gaming platform for the consumer market.

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Kraelis · January 11th, 2006

A SCREEN? I think it simply jacks up the price. Board games are expensive enough as it is.

Nothing beats good old fashioned hand and mind power to get things to work. Heck, we still play Monopoly and Cluedo.

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**Cid Highwind** · January 11th, 2006

There will always be grannies for the simple stuff,
nerds for the roleplaying,
and cosplayers

(now don't that this offensive k?

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Anyway, I agree with Kraelis, those games sell at the same price as videogames here. I like to play such games, but the problem is either you have to get your family to play it as well, or a gather a group of friends. With computer games you can go against computer opponents, or get online.

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Nevermore · January 11th, 2006

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Originally Posted by Kraelis

A SCREEN? I think it simply jacks up the price. Board games are expensive enough as it is.

Nothing beats good old fashioned hand and mind power to get things to work. Heck, we still play Monopoly and Cluedo.

I still play mousetrap here! My old mousetrap game still holds tightly on da road ;D

oh yeah that and atmosfear

The people on the board games always made me laugh because they all seemed to happy, joyful

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Cypherswipe · January 12th, 2006

It's concievable that a boardgame/screen such as this could have a single player mode in which the computer would control the other player/s (most likely using graphicl pieces rather than real ones, although it might be possible for it to control real pieces via magnets).

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Valcrist · January 13th, 2006

Well, I play pen&paper weekly and a screen would help with visuals when laying out the terrain.

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January 11th, 2006	#2 (permalink)
Kraelis Fallen Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Moonlight Spire Posts: 1,406	A SCREEN? I think it simply jacks up the price. Board games are expensive enough as it is. Nothing beats good old fashioned hand and mind power to get things to work. Heck, we still play Monopoly and Cluedo. __________________ --KrÆlis Cross Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur =============== Athlon 64 x2 3800\| Asrock ALiveNF6G-VSTA \| Kingston DDR2 1 Gb RAM

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Cid Highwind Human Metal Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Holland / Hungary Posts: 13,548	There will always be grannies for the simple stuff, nerds for the roleplaying, and cosplayers (now don't that this offensive k? ) Anyway, I agree with Kraelis, those games sell at the same price as videogames here. I like to play such games, but the problem is either you have to get your family to play it as well, or a gather a group of friends. With computer games you can go against computer opponents, or get online. __________________ PC Specs: CPU: Intel Q8200 @ 2.8GHz GPU: Sapphire ATi HD4870 / 1024MB / Core: 801 / Mem: 1000 Mobo: Gigabyte EP35-DS3 (rev 2.1) SPU: Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music RAM: 2GB Kingston HyperX DDR2 1066 @ 4-4-4-12 ~ 800MHz HDD: 1TB Samsung Spinpoint, 32MB PSU: Hiper Type-R 580W Monitor: Iiyama B2403WS / 19201200 Geometry Wars: 198.400 Lumines: 999.999 Join the NGEmu Folding @ Home community NOW!*

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Cypherswipe Extra Large Member Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 936	It's concievable that a boardgame/screen such as this could have a single player mode in which the computer would control the other player/s (most likely using graphicl pieces rather than real ones, although it might be possible for it to control real pieces via magnets). __________________

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