Graphing Thirty Years of Gaming Collaborations

ShannonA writes "The world of designer board games, including such classics as The Settlers of Catan and Modern Art, is full of creative collaborations between designers. In a new article, Six Degrees of Collaboration, Shannon Appelcline traces these collaborative connections across a half-dozen countries and over thirty years of time." Interesting to see how relatively small a part of the table-top gaming industry really is.

Comments

Always six degrees?

[jibjibjib]

I find it interesting that everything is always referred to as six degrees of separation. It has been said that everyone in the world is connected to everyone else in only six degrees. From this, one would expect that a small group of people with related interests would be connected in less than six degrees.

Re:Always six degrees?

[The Clockwork Troll]

They mean six degrees of arc. The article is presented in XGAML as a game with a circular playing board with a diameter of 10,000 miles. There are 60 people on the board, each of whom is six degrees apart, literally. Each game's purveyor subtends a right angle.

I hope that clears things up.