Over the last few years, board games have become one of my favoured pastimes. My journey of discovery in this space has been very enjoyable, but the deeper I delve down the rabbit hole, the more it makes me wonder about the board game landscape as a whole, particularly about the genres I haven’t tried, the different types of mechanics I’ve not been exposed to, games that have an unusual pairing of mechanics and how the board game landscape as a whole has evolved over time. I found a few different bits of analysis on Kaggle, in forums and blogs that scratched the surface of these topics, but not enough to relieve the itch of my curiosity, so I decided to get my hands dirty and rummage through the data mine myself.
Auch wenn man des Englischen nicht sonderlich mächtig ist, lohnt es sich, da die Ergebnisse in anschaulichen Graphiken präsentiert werden.
[Blockierte Grafik: http://dvatvani.github.io/static/BGG-analysis/rating-by-year.png]
[Blockierte Grafik: http://dvatvani.github.io/static/BGG-analysis/Mechanics_in_90s_and_10s.png]