Last Thursday we had a workshop session with David Parlett, in this presentation we got allot of food for thought when it comes to race games with David asking questions like: what it is actually a race game?, what determines movement?, what is the goal of the game?, We were presented with many of the games we had covered in Eddies lectures games such as The Royal Game of Ur and Senet he had explained how many of these ancient games evolved in to the ones we know, he also covered games which i hadn't seen or played before, these being Liubo and Pachisi. He also went onto show us his own board game Hare and Tortoise which used a more unique movement mechanic rather than the normal dice, in which players had to pay carrots (the currency in the game) to move forward.
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