Stower2422

(That wouldn't make you boring. That would make you awesome.)

Do you find yourself drawn to boardgames due to the inherently social and in some ways cooperative experience of sitting around a table with a board and some little objects and creating the experience of fun together with your friends?

Do you have any particular favorite games, (other than your own), that you enjoy? Perhaps others that address left-wing ideologies, issues, or topics? I know Steve Jackson Games' Revolution has given me ample opportunities to make silly references about Krondstadt and Kiel, and little history lessons when the references go unnoticed. Gotta love crushing that reactionary putsch at the local tavern as well.

Ever consider making a game about labor? I imagine some interesting bargaining/bluffing/betrayal mechanics could be used to represent aspects of contracts, strikes, pickets, scabs, strikebreaking, and organizing.

I guess 2. kind of assumes that people only play boardgames with people who share there political affiliation. I know I've played boardgames with reactionaries who were friends of friends, liberals who still cling the promise of capitalism, and those were were politically apathetic. Games with subtle ideology can be a powerful, discrete form of agitating and undermining previously-held beliefs.

Edit: a word.

Any chance of a second run in the future?

3) Perhaps a bit in the U.S. and U.K. (which I suppose would be your primary markets), but other parts of the world do not have the same sorts of laws that enshrine the right to the legal existence of unions while simultaneously restricting them from doing most of the things that previously gave their workers power. Just this week or so alone, there's been huge labor-related news in South Africa, Turkey, and Belgium. Even in the U.S., polls consistently show American workers want more voice and representation at work, even if they hold negative opinions of unions as an institution.

Maybe i'll kick this idea around with some of my gamer friends to see if we can come up with some concepts.