Blog Task Week 8 - Going Cardboard

This week’s screening was a documentary called 'Going Cardboard'. This was a documentary about how board games have become such an intense hobby for some of its fans.

The documentary focuses on some particular board games and how they became so popular from the early get go. Some of there were 'Dominion' and 'Settlers of Catan'. The fans and enthusiasts of such games were very keen on strategy and playing to win whenever they got together and played. A section of the documentary focused on the collections of board games that fans had created. One enthusiast claimed he had quite a small collection of board game but in fact the number of games in his collections reached the hundreds. This just shows how wide spread the fan base is for board games. Whilst on the subject, the documentary went to Germany where thousands of fans from around the world gathered and the world’s biggest board game convention. It was in this part of the documentary that you really got an idea for the size of the board game fan base and how popular board games were.

Although it is amazing to know how many board game fans and enthusiasts there are out there, the documentary did not appeal to me because I prefer digital games.