YES !
In 2010, Gregory Isabelli(on the right) and* Emmanuel Colin*(on the left) started a platform with a simple idea: Why not making a place to help people play together?
At the beginning, this was a place to find people and games. Close to your home. To play around a table.
Then it evolved. Slowly...
10 Years later, here we are: BoardGame Arena is blowing his 10th anniversary candles, but wait, there is more:
We're also celebrating our +4 000 000th accounts, and our gamelist that has grown up to more than 200 games recently.
But this anniversary is not about BoardGame Arena. It's mostly about YOU.
(Yes, you. Even you who got a penalty for leaving a game recently).
BGA would be nothing without the support of players, from all over the world.
People helping to translate, report bugs, and just having fun playing with friends or strangers from more than 300 different countries, speaking in more than 40 different languages.
Premium members are helping more than ever: with your contribution, we were able to allow more people to come and play.
Thanks to them, we're also offering BoardGame Arena tools to many schools, institutions and libraries, all over the world.
We would of course like to thank our developpers, working mostly in the background, who are at the heart of BGA and make it alive, brilliant and are helping to bring new games for all of us to enjoy.
We, of course, give our thanks to publishers, as well as game designers, illustrators, and everybody working in the industry that helps and allows us to make these gems available to all of you.
And most important: let's not forget our wonderful team of moderators that are working 24/24 and 7/7 to help keep this place filled with what players deserve: fun and nice exchanges.
We are proud of the road we travelled together since then, and we're taking the measure of what's coming.
A lot of things are coming.
As you can see, we're releasing 1 to 3 or more games a week.
We're improving, bit by bit, the whole website. Sometimes you can see it, sometimes you don't, but trust us: we never stop working on it to improve every small detail.
It's not perfect cause it's changing, mutating, adapting. With you. For you.
So what's next ?
Novelties. And a lot of polish.
First, we will continue to propose new games: the line-up for September is A-MA-ZING and you'll discover soon many famous games (classics as well as new ones.)
Second, we will improve the website and the Premium offer. We're also working on new functionalities, to give more "control" and many other improvements we have to keep secret for now.
Third, we will start BGA TV in a few weeks: as you maybe have seen since a few weeks, we are slowly implementing video players into the website to show you some nice streams. We have hosted the French event "Bien Ouej", we are currently hosting the Mind Sports Olympiad, and we will also offer soon Worldwide championships for many games in different languages, as well as a recurring show.
It's coming, more informations soon.
And what is an anniversary without a special event and GIFTS? Nothing.
BoardGame Arena X Getinshoot
To celebrate this special year and what's coming next, we want to try a small idea, with our partner from GetInShoot http://www.getinshoot.com/.
People playing online sometimes don't feel like there is another human at the other side of the board.
We do. We care.
That's why we just launched a video project: Boardgamers, all over the world.
For our 10th anniversary and 4M accounts, we would like to celebrate this event by doing a video showing YOU playing BGA from your country, saying "Welcome" in your own language so we can all share the beauty of diversity and of sharing games together through a community-driven video.
**To achieve this it's easy: **
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Download the app on your phone or tablet
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Add the group code: 197758
Then using the app, take a very short video of you in front of ANY monument, interesting place, on the beach, on a rooftop, from you balcony, with your friends: anything that represent you, your country, your habits, and say a warm, clear and loud "Welcome!" in your own language, while waving your hands.
Please also note we need to add your BGA nickname and your place/country on it, so people can relate to places and share the good vibe.
Don't forget to update your BGA Profile.
We will also grant some special presents to the best 100 videos.
Let's make this unforgettable.
This event will end on 18/08/2020.
We couldn't imagine 10 Years ago where we are today. But thanks to you, we can see where we are going: exactly where you want.
Thanks a lot for this incredible adventure.
Take care.
The best is still to come.
Greg, Emmanuel and Ian.
BOARDGAME ARENA: Praznujmo 10 let, 4M uporabnike in 200 + igre!
DA!
Leta 2010 sta Gregory Isabelli (na desni) in Emmanuel Colin (na levi) odprla platformo s preprosto idejo: Zakaj ne bi ustvarili prostora, ki bi ljudem pomagal igrati skupaj?
Na začetku je bilo to mesto za iskanje ljudi in iger.
Blizu vašega doma.
Za igranje okrog mize.
Nato se je razvilo.
Počasi ...
10 let kasneje, tukaj smo: BoardGame Arena prižge svoje sveče ob desetletnici, a počakaj, obstaja še več:
Praznujemo tudi svoje +4 000 000. račune in našo igralno skupino, ki je v zadnjem času narasla na več kot 200 iger.
<span style="font-size:150%; višina črte: 116% "> Toda pri tej obletnici ne gre za BoardGame Arena.
Večinoma gre za VAS.
(Ja, ti.
Tudi vi, ki ste pred kratkim dobili kazen za igranje igre).
BGA ne bi bil nič brez podpore igralcev z vsega sveta.
Ljudje pomagajo pri prevajanju, prijavljanju napak in se preprosto zabavajo ob igranju s prijatelji ali neznanci iz več kot 300 različnih držav in govorijo v več kot 40 različnih jezikih.
Člani Premium pomagajo bolj kot kdaj koli prej: z vašim prispevkom smo lahko omogočili več ljudem, da pridejo in se igrajo.
Zahvaljujoč njim ponujamo orodja BoardGame Arena za številne šole, ustanove in knjižnice po vsem svetu.
Seveda bi se radi zahvalili našim razvijalcem, ki večinoma delujejo v ozadju, ki so v središču BGA in ga oživijo, sijoče in pomagajo pripeljati nove igre za vse nas.
Seveda se zahvaljujemo založnikom, oblikovalcem iger, ilustratorjem in vsem, ki delujejo v panogi, ki nam pomagajo in omogočajo, da te dragulje omogočimo vsem.
In kar je najpomembneje: ne pozabimo na našo čudovito ekipo moderatorjev, ki delujeta 24/24 in 7/7, da bi ta prostor napolnili s tistimi, kar si igralci zaslužijo: zabavo in lepo izmenjavo.
Ponosni smo na pot, ki smo jo od takrat prehodili skupaj, in ukrepamo, kaj nas čaka.
<span style="font-size:150%; višina črte: 116% "> Prihaja veliko stvari.
Kot vidite, sproščamo 1 do 3 ali več iger na teden.
Nekoliko posredno izboljšujemo celotno spletno mesto.
Včasih lahko vidite, včasih ne, vendar nam zaupajte: nikoli ne nehamo delati na tem, da bi izboljšali vsako majhno podrobnost.
Ni popoln vzrok, da se spreminja, mutira, prilagaja.
S tabo.
Zate.
<span style="font-size:150%; višina vrstice: 116% "> Kaj sledi?
Novosti.
In veliko poliranja.
Najprej bomo še naprej predlagali nove igre: sestava za september je A-MA-ZING in kmalu boste odkrili številne znane igre (klasike in nove.)
Drugič, izboljšali bomo spletno stran in ponudbo Premium.
Prav tako delamo na novih funkcionalnostih, da bi dali bolj "nadzor" in številne druge izboljšave, ki jih moramo za zdaj varovati v skrivnosti.
Tretjič, BGA TV bomo začeli izvajati čez nekaj tednov: kot ste morda videli že nekaj tednov, počasi vpeljujemo video predvajalnike na spletno mesto, da vam pokažemo nekaj lepih pretokov.
Gostili smo francoski dogodek "Bien Ouej", trenutno gostimo športno olimpijado Mind, kmalu pa bomo ponudili tudi svetovna prvenstva za številne igre v različnih jezikih, pa tudi ponavljajoč se šov.
Prihaja, kmalu več informacij.
<span style="font-size:150%; line-height: 116% "> In kakšna je obletnica brez posebnega dogodka in DARIL?
Nič.
BoardGame Arena X Getinshoot
Da bi praznovali to posebno leto in naslednje, želimo poskusiti majhno idejo s partnerjem iz podjetja GetInShoot http://www.getinshoot.com/.
Ljudje, ki igrajo na spletu, včasih nimajo občutka, da je na drugi strani plošče še en človek.
Mi to počnemo.
Skrbimo.
Zato smo pravkar zagnali video projekt: Boardgamers, po vsem svetu.
Za svojo deseto obletnico in 4M račune želimo ta dogodek proslaviti tako, da posnamemo video, ki prikazuje, kako igrate BGA iz svoje države in v katerem govorite "Dobrodošli" v svojem jeziku, tako da lahko vsi delimo lepoto raznolikosti in skupne igre. video, ki ga vodi skupnost.
To lahko dosežete preprosto:
- Pojdite na https://getinshoot.page.link/dl
- Prenesite aplikacijo v telefon ali tablični računalnik
- Dodajte kodo skupine: 197758
Nato uporabite aplikacijo, da si pred KOLIKIM spomenikom, zanimivim krajem, na plaži, na strehi, z balkona, s svojimi prijatelji, posnamete kratek videoposnetek: karkoli, kar predstavlja vas, vašo državo, vaše navade in recite toplo, jasno in glasno "Dobrodošli!" v svojem jeziku, medtem ko mašete z rokami. Upoštevajte tudi, da moramo nanj dodati svoj vzdevek BGA in vaš kraj / državo, da se bodo ljudje lahko povezovali s kraji in delili dobro vibracijo.
Ne pozabite posodobiti svojega profila BGA.
Prav tako bomo podelili nekaj posebnih daril za najboljših 100 videoposnetkov.
Naj bo to nepozabno.
Ta dogodek se bo končal 18.8.2020.
Pred 10 leti si nismo mogli predstavljati, kje smo danes. Toda zahvaljujoč vam lahko vidimo, kam gremo: točno tja, kamor želite.
Najlepša hvala za to neverjetno pustolovščino.
Pazite.
Najboljše še prihaja.
Greg, Emmanuel in Ian.