I agree the BGG complexity factor conflates (at least) two things: complexity of rules and complexity of strategy.But I found maximum complexity is harder to extract and, like player count and player age, more likely to depend on their current circumstances. I don't need to specify category, mechanism, etc because my recommender should pick up on that from their existing BGG ratings / tastes.
It just means I don't need to filter out high-complexity games from the recommendations. Note that just because a gamer is "hardcore" or "extreme" or whatever, does not mean I will exclusively recommend 4+ complexity games. There's no way my parents would want to play anything more complex than Pandemic, so only Casual games should be recommended to them.
That is, the *maximum* complexity I should recommend to them. I am using these labels to understand the player's complexity upper-bound.Good point that Family implies child-friendly - Cards Against Humanity is a great counter-example - so I agree Casual is a much better word for the first category.I went through all the comments, and just wanted to clarify / respond to a few things: "Wargamers" is close, but of course does not cover high complexity games in other categories. But then they hate all the really heavy complexity recommendations they are given. In my beta testing, I also think there is a bit of an ego thing, where if I say "moderate complexity" vs "any complexity", people feel reluctant to pick moderate complexity (as if they'd be saying they're not real gamers). I realize one could say "heavy" games / gamer, but I think a lot of people misinterpret "heavy" based on their previous game experience (if you look at BGG, some people think Settlers of Catan is a heavy game: more than 5% rate it medium-heavy or heavy!). ASL), but also Through the Ages (although the app / online versions might reduce overhead enough for me to give it a shot), Twilight Imperium, and so on. I think "family gamer" works for games of complexity <= 2.5, and maybe "experienced gamer" for complexity <= 4.0.īut even though I consider myself a pretty experienced modern gamer, complexity 4.0+ is still pretty daunting to me. The reason is I'm building a board game recommendations website and, rather than give complexity numbers (which newbies would be unfamiliar with), I'd rather use a descriptive term. I'm looking for a term for gamers who can handle games of complexity 4.0. r/tabletopgamedesign - Designer's subreddit.r/boardgameexchange - selling/buying/trading games.Game of the Week Calendar Related Sites & Subreddits The simplest use is to bold game names in your comment and add " /u/r2d8 getinfo" at the end of the post, but this post/sub has other features identified. You'll see people using bold to highlight games, that gives the opportunity to interact with /u/r2d8, a bot that can be used to grab data from BGG on games included in a post.
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