“There are just so many more routes into the genre now.”
He thinks the genre’s fortunes have “exploded” in recent years, however.
But Baker and Menard’s assessments do echo things we’ve been told by other strategy developers.
“Like, ‘you do not belong here, this is a special place’.
I don’t really get that feeling anymore at all.
No, I’m bored to tears.'
Some of these boardgames are extremely family-friendly, with age ranges of eight and up.
And people have been playing these now for years.
So I do think there’s just more general acceptance that these are fun games.”
“Both of those things are great,” he went on.
“But aiming at one of them is how you grow the space.
And we’ve seen a lot more games aiming more in that direction lately.
