Thus the sheer quantity of board games available can quickly become overwhelming even to those hobbyists deeply entrenched already. The popularity of the Youtube series Tabletop, created by Felicia Day and Wil Wheaton, is exposing more and more people to the hobby. Modern board games have a greater presence in retail stores such as Barnes & Noble, Target, and Walmart. Independent publishers and individual designers are developing, publishing and funding projects on crowdsourcing sites such as IndieGoGo and Kickstarter. According to the venerable BoardGameGeek, the amount of published games has doubled since 2008. Everywhere news media outlets pronounce that board games are " making a comeback" or are "going through a golden age" or experiencing a " renaissance" or are " in full swing." NPR even flipped the whole thing and did a piece on board games that stink (and, of course, not a single one of these are in print).Īccording to ICV2, a website that tracks the trends of different hobby markets, the modern board game market has seen six consecutive years of growth and is more than twice the size it was in 2008.
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