Saturday, September 11, 2010

Brettspielwelt, Healthy Online Game Ala Boardgamer

What will happen when the world only populated by boardgame (boardgamers) lovers? Endless war? Full competition? Messy? Or vice versa?

Believe it or not, when the world got together and formed boardgamer own world, that created a world filled with friendship, full of self-discipline, and full of joy, at least that we can get in Brettspielwelt (the boardgame), a free online boardgame portal of German which the most complete and most popular today.

In 1998 a boardgamer (boardgame fans) as well as a programmer named Alexander Zbiek start a small project to be able to play a boardgame online. The reason is simple, because he still wants to play boardgame with a few friends (also boardgamers) who began moving to various other cities.

Taking advantage of new Java programming language developed at that time, he began to pioneer an online portal called Brettspielwelt boardgame. This project was originally not going too well and he took two years to be able to create a portal that is perfect.

Starting with just a link on personal web page, Brettspielwelt then grow rapidly. Currently, there are more than 70 boardgame and card game (card game) that has been enjoyed for free by thousands boardgamer from all over the world. In addition to an adequate Internet connection, each player requires a browser that supports Java application to be able to enjoy the variety offered boardgame.

In addition to access via a browser, each player can also download a special application (client) to be able to enjoy a variety of existing facilities more comfortable. Dominion, Pandemic, The Settlers from Catan, Puerto Rico, and Carcassonne are few examples of my favorite boardgame that currently have can be played in Brettspielwelt. In recent years many large publishers also began using Brettspielwelt as a place to introduce their newest boardgame so more days boardgame collection (online) there are increasing rapidly.


First entered Brettspielwelt every player will be brought to an area game manager. In this area each player can choose the type who wants to play boardgame. Especially for beginner players in this area are also available assistance in form of a detailed explanation as well as direct assistance from volunteers who will patiently answer any questions and explain the basic things you need to know.

One special feature is the choice of Brettspielwelt meta-game for each player who has been registered. If a player chooses to activate the meta game, so for every game that he follow, he will earn points and credits which then could he use to form a community (forum) apart, which was then called the city, in Brettspielwelt.

Enjoying boardgame online is different from enjoying it directly. Intensive interaction, an atmosphere full of intimacy, and enjoyment of assessing the various expressions that radiates from every player would be difficult for us to get when we play the boardgame online.

However Brettspielwelt still be a interesting option for boardgame lovers, other than as a place to try out various new boardgame (before deciding to buy) through Brettspielwelt, we have the opportunity to get acquainted with the strategy and pitted boardgamer from various parts of the world. In addition Brettspielwelt is real evidence that the development of boardgame will be able to stimulate the development of healthy and beneficial online games.

Interested? Try to visit Brettspielwelt.de and feel by yourself.