So I wanted to clarify this edge case. Where exactly does a traditional tabletop game transition to being a video game.
Electronic game aids: dice rollers, score keepers
Required electronic game components: X-Com: The Board Game, Clue VCR
Electronic communications: Play by Email, Play by Chat, Virtual Tabletops
Electronic implementations of tabletop games: Smallworld 2, Carcassone, Ticket to Ride, Scrabble, Magic the Gathering, etc have electronic implementations that have the exact same rules and gameplay as the tabletop game.
Electronic implementations of tabletop game with gameplay changes: the recently released Battletech game
Electronic implementations of tabletop games that don't exist at actual tabletop games: Hearthstone
Now Battletech and Hearthstone seem to me to be fairly solidly on the side of being video games and playing Ticket to Ride with a score keeper app seems solidly still a tabletop board game. The others I could see being argued either way.
Electronic game aids: dice rollers, score keepers
Required electronic game components: X-Com: The Board Game, Clue VCR
Electronic communications: Play by Email, Play by Chat, Virtual Tabletops
Electronic implementations of tabletop games: Smallworld 2, Carcassone, Ticket to Ride, Scrabble, Magic the Gathering, etc have electronic implementations that have the exact same rules and gameplay as the tabletop game.
Electronic implementations of tabletop game with gameplay changes: the recently released Battletech game
Electronic implementations of tabletop games that don't exist at actual tabletop games: Hearthstone
Now Battletech and Hearthstone seem to me to be fairly solidly on the side of being video games and playing Ticket to Ride with a score keeper app seems solidly still a tabletop board game. The others I could see being argued either way.
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