21 Games

(Not my wall of games...unfortunately?)

My good friend Jeff got married last weekend. I'm so proud of him.

While I was at the wedding, his brother, a real estate agent with an entrepreneurial drive, encouraged me to delve into a discussion about 21 different games, analyzing each one for its application to management.

Until now, I have merely been creating and testing a couple hypotheses, which have been valuable to my progress so far and have helped me to understand what I am really trying to do, but I think his idea will help me to broaden the scope of my ideas and challenge me to develop a more comprehensive--and hopefully relevant--set of board game applications.

My goal then, over the course of the next year (2? 3?) is to take Jeff's brother's advice and compile on this blog the applications I can draw from 21 different games. I'm not sure whether I will limit this to board games or not, although if I do I will need to invest pretty heavily in some new games, which, for a poor college grad, could take a while. I will take donations (wink).

Also, I am unsure whether I will study every mechanic within a game for any semblance of application, or whether I will simply pick a mechanic that sticks out to me as being particularly useful and investigate it in detail.

In either case, I am interested in your, the reader's, suggestions for any games that you feel might be appropriate for this discussion. The list of games I own is pretty limited, but I would like to have some more ideas about which games to buy, so that I can spend my money wisely.