Search for any Game Title or keyword on the Opinionated Gamers
Follow The Opinionated Gamers Blog via Email
Join 4,341 other subscribersSupport the Opinionated Gamers! If you enjoy our content here, help keep us independent!
$5.00
Follow Blog via Email
Join 4,341 other subscribers-
Recent Posts
- Dale Yu: Review of Let’s Go! To Japan
- Dale Yu: Review of Rolling Heights
- Dale Yu: Review of Bonsai
- Matt Carlson: Review of Wreckland Run
- Dale Yu: Review of Your Best Life
- Dale Yu: First Impressions of Marvel: Damage Control
- PSA: Puerto Rico 1897 is literally unplayable…
- Dale Yu: Review of Superclub (and Arsenal Manager Kit)
- Designer’s Corner: WYSIWYG
- Dale Yu: Review of Samarkand Bazaar
- Dale Yu: Review of Get On Board New York and London
- Tricks and Trumps #2: Variations on the Classics (1967-1990)
- What makes trick-taking so enduring? And is it the most popular game mechanic on the planet? Eight trick-taking designers weigh in!
- Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition (Game Review by Chris Wray)
- Five Three Five (Game Review by Chris Wray)
Follow me on Twitter
My TweetsRecent Comments
ellogan on PSA: Puerto Rico 1897 is liter… Nathan Woll on PSA: Puerto Rico 1897 is liter… Richard M Shay on PSA: Puerto Rico 1897 is liter… farmerlenny on PSA: Puerto Rico 1897 is liter… Devin on PSA: Puerto Rico 1897 is liter… Adam on PSA: Puerto Rico 1897 is liter… Tom on PSA: Puerto Rico 1897 is liter… Jacob on PSA: Puerto Rico 1897 is liter… Larry Levy on Designer’s Corner: WYSIW… Stuart J Barton on 9 Lives (Game Review by Chris… Categories
Blogs by the Opinionated Gamers
Blogs in English
- 2d6.org
- About.com – Boardgames
- Board Game Blues
- Board Game Industry Directory
- Board Game Reviews by Josh
- Boardgames in Blighty
- Bruno Faidutti's Site
- GamerChris
- Mango's Gaming
- Mikko's Gameblog
- Purple Pawn
- Seize Your Turn
- Simply Board
- Spiel: Boardgames in the UK
- The Gaming Gang
- The Superfly Circus
- The Tao of Gaming
Blogs in other languages
Gaming Sites the OGs Frequent
Meta
Blogs by the Opinionated Gamers
Blogs in English
- Purple Pawn
- Mikko's Gameblog
- The Gaming Gang
- The Tao of Gaming
- Boardgames in Blighty
- Mango's Gaming
- Simply Board
- Board Game Reviews by Josh
- The Superfly Circus
- Seize Your Turn
- Bruno Faidutti's Site
- Spiel: Boardgames in the UK
- Board Game Blues
- Board Game Industry Directory
- GamerChris
- About.com – Boardgames
- 2d6.org
Blogs in other languages
Gaming Sites the OGs Frequent
The Art of Design: are game designers originators ?
Dear Opinionatedgamers readers, as you know I’m conducing from year a column about “Art of Design“, interviewing many designers about the relationship between art and game design.
I’m, of course, interested in the discussion between SAZ (Spiele-Autoren-Zunft) and Fachgruppe Spiel (Game Publisher Association in Germany) concerning the aknowledgement for the designers of the status of “Originators”.
I think publishers and designers are the two main actors in the game scene and I’m sure that we need good designers and good publishers to be sure to have our needed amount of good games!
With a legal opinion, an open letter, and a signature campaign, the Game Designer Association counteracts in April 2013 the refusal of the Fachgruppe Spiel to acknowledge game designers the status as originators and to continue the discussions about contract matters with the SAZ as the game designers’ representation.
Of course we are just talking about German laws but in boardgames market we all know the role of German (SDJ, DSP, Essen Spiele, Nuremberg …) so I think this discussion is interesting for all the market.
My personal opionion, matured during my interviews to games designers, is that Designers are to be acknowledged as originators but the discussion between SAZ and Fachgruppe Spiel involve also the mutual roles/relatiships between the two associations.
Here you can get more infos about this topics with links to the documents and letters.
My hope is that SAZ and Fachgruppe Spiel can find an agreement because, as just quoted above, I think we need good desginers and good publishers to have good games!
Good play
Liga
Share this:
Like this:
About Andrea "Liga" Ligabue
Andrea "Liga" Ligabue is a game expert contributing to many games related international projects including Gamers Alliance Report, WIN, ILSA Magazine and Boardgamenews. Member of the International Gamers Awards Committee is coordinator of Play - The Games Festival and founder of the project Ludoteca Ideale.