Hello again, it been a while since I posted something.
The other day, I watched a good program that was about board games and how they developed through history. It was showing all the different versions of modern games such as snakes and ladders, and chess and how they made history.
I learnt in particular that chess is like one big war, trying to trap and kill the other person's king, and that it was one of (if thee) most played board games in the world, and that it has more in depth strategy than any other board game ever created.
It was also quite fascinating to see how snake and ladder is a typical game in one country where you simply get to the finishing line, and somehow in another country, they saw and created snakes and ladder as a journey to heaven, and all of the encounters along the way. It has a very unique take on a modern game and it was very interesting to see the game played out from a different stand point.
The program as a whole was a good watch, however I am kind of hoping that they would talk more about the growth of video games within the part of that program.
Hi Ollie,
ReplyDeleteIt would probably be a good idea to include a note on the title of the series, and the episode.
I think the point about Snakes and Ladders isn't so much that the Indian game offers "a unique take on a modern game" so much as a complex game with a spiritual dimension has been simplified in its commercial, anglicised form.
There are three episodes in the series (all are available as video streams via the library catalogue): the final episode, "Joystick Generation" looks at the rise in popularity of digital games.