For some reason, there seems to be eleven billion webcomics about two guys sitting on a coach playing video games.
For once, I would love to read a webcomic about two guys sitting on a coach playing board games.
And when I say “board games”, I don’t mean epic games with dragons and dungeons and whatever. I mean classic board games like Ludo, Candy Land or Mouse Trap.
Of course, since the concept is pretty meta, the comic would have to refer to video game webcomics somewhat so that people would see that link, as the funniest part of this idea is to create a contrast to the video game comics. But considering how many different board games there are, there’s also a ton of jokes one could do.
And since every video game webcomic out there not only depicts the guys playing board games, but also makes fun of in-game logic by showing in-game situations, you could do that with board games, too. Just replace Mario with the Monopoly Man.
It’s a metacomic, but I think it could be fun.
And in case you were wondering – yeah, I’m aware that Board James exists, but I think this would be somewhat different. If not for other reasons because Board James is not a comic.
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I just saw – sort of – an example of this. In the comic Commisioned, there’s a comic on a game of chess. Though it is done in the context of roleplaying games, it was a nice touch. I can really see it be done funny.
Great example. Chess as RPG actually looked pretty fun.
Yes! well said. board games cross all boundaries — we can all relate to them — while video games exclude a large part of all generations, but especially our parents and grandparents, who have no frame of reference for them.
I’m not sure I agree 100 % with saying that board games cross all boundaries and that we can all relate to them. Just as some people in the older generations don’t have a frame of reference for video games, there will always be people who don’t have a frame of reference for board games, too. I think that video games are starting to get pretty universal, too, and though I have no statistics or other numbers on this, I would assume that the number of people who’ve played a Mario game is probably closing in on the number of people who’ve played Scrabble.