The square board, and player movement around it, is reminiscent of moving through a traditional city street grid -- not sure what the round shape resonates with; seems arbitrary.
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Charles Boyung < charles.boy...@nexustechnologiesllc.com> wrote: > I think it is very, very odd. The electronic banking, as the article > states, has been an available item for several years, and that part > of it is fine, but the round board just doesn't make any sense. As > a board gamer, games like Monopoly haven't appealed to me in years > anyways, but there was still something comforting about the classic > square track. Also, the "wheel of fortune" style pie slices don't > seem big enough to convey what things are as well as the rectangles > and squares. > > One thing to note - they tried the opposite way of "updating" > Monopoly not too long ago - didn't change the board shape, but this > time did change all of the property names, based on internet voting. > I'm pretty sure that didn't go over too well either. > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=49093 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Susan Doran 55 Morning Street Portland ME 04101 207-774-4963 (land) 202-296-4849 (cell) /susandoran (facebook) @susandoran (twitter) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
