BoardGameGeek
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BoardGameGeek (BGG) is an online forum for board gaming hobbyists and a user-generated game database that holds reviews, images and videos for over 150,000 different tabletop games. The site allows users to rate games on a 1–10 scale and shows these as a ranked list of board games. It is considered the most-used website by board game enthusiasts since the 2000s, and recent academic literature about board games relies on the website. The New York Times in 2019 called it "the hub of board gaming on the internet."
Key facts
- Website.name
- BoardGameGeek
- Website.logo
- BoardGameGeek Logo.svg
- Website.owner
- Scott Alden
- Website.founder
- Scott Alden and Derk Solko
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- History
- Design
- Golden Geek Award
- 2006–2009
- 2010–2019
- 2020–present
- See also
- References
- External links
BoardGameGeek (BGG) is an online forum for board gaming hobbyists and a user-generated game database that holds reviews, images and videos for over 150,000 different tabletop games. The site allows users to rate games on a 1–10 scale and shows these as a ranked list of board games. It is considered the most-used website by board game enthusiasts since the 2000s, and recent academic literature about board games relies on the website. The New York Times in 2019 called it "the hub of board gaming on the internet."
==History== BoardGameGeek was founded in January 2000 by Scott Alden and Derk Solko. Alden had an ambition for the website to be the "worldwide definitive resource for board games." The site's early structure was based on Alden's earlier work from 1996, 3DGameGeek. This was a similar site which hosted discussions on digital games with three-dimensional graphics.
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