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BoardGaming.com: YA General Gaming Site
14 Aug
Posted by Yehuda Berlinger as Card Games, Modern Board Games
Boardgaming.com is another general gaming site aiming to be a comprehensive guide to board and card games and a social site for gamers.
BGing’s twist is that it’s the first board gaming site to comprehensively integrate gamification elements into its site design. Every act you do: read, enter, rate, etc earns you points in various categories, allowing to you level up and unlock various rewards.
Like me, you may have noticed that these gamification elements are, in fact, video game gamification elements (based on RPG elements) and not actually board game gamification elements; on the other hand, what exactly would those be? Anyhoo, the site is sleek and (possibly) addictive, but currently invitation only. Natch, anyone already on the site will be happy to invite you, since it earns them points. Like the above link.
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Invitation is not enough. A “Beta Registration Code” is also required to register.
Oh. If anyone wants a code, I’ll try to get them one.
Yehuda
Been testing out the beta for a few days. My own impression so far is that it’s probably going to struggle, to be honest. It’s much, much shinier than BGG, but nowhere even close in actual functionality.
Out of the nearly 200 games I own, I found I think 17 that were listed on the site. There is currently no way for users to add to the database and it sounds like they’re unsure if they’d want to add that ability. There are no discussion boards; there are “conversation” areas on specific board game pages, but they are linear comment threads such as you’d see on a blog post.
The “rewards,” which are primarily “accomplishment” badges like you’d see in a video game, are kind of neat at first but start getting old quick. And although this system is meant as a way to entice users into adding content to the site, it often results in people leaving game reviews along the lines of “It sucks,” just so they can get the points rewards.
The tag line is “the fun way to discover new games,” but I’m failing to see how the site does that. It doesn’t help me discover new games in any way more than surfing the reviews on Amazon or FunAgain would. It does allow you to sort by “gamer style” category, such as “avid gamer,” “family gamer,” etc, but these classifications are so vague that they’re probably little help in finding a game you’d personally enjoy playing.
It’s only been a couple of days or so, so I’m still playing with it to see how it goes – but so far although it’s a *very* nice *looking* web site, I’m seeing little to make me think I should spend my time there instead of BGG.
Sorry for being overly negative but if they want to dethrone the “big daddy” of gaming sites they’ll need to come up with something more innovative than a nice design layout and accomplishment badges… I suppose that’s what betas are for though, so I’ll be interested to see how the site develops.