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We are pleased to present you interesting, and most importantly a very useful portal about board games and all that is connected with them - the tester. We are pleased to present you interesting, and most importantly a very useful portal about board games and all that is connected with them - the tester.

Do you like board games? You are not alone!

Testers - a unique Russian portal for all fans of the bench. Here you can find out who is the author of your favorite game, learn about the novelties of the game market, see photos and, of course, chat with like-minded people.

Main sections:

Games - a huge number of board games, interesting descriptions and photographs of the gameplay;

Persons - stories and photos, and, of course, the labor achievements of famous people of the game world;

Companies are large and small, manufacturers, shops and developers. Here for everyone found on the "pair of strings";

Clubs - in this section information about game clubs in different cities, indicating exactly addresses and work time;

Projects - features and links to blogs about board games, their video believe, links to Site sites and playing;

Events - exhibitions, fairs, conferences dedicated to board games worldwide;

Awards - premiums that receive games;

Welcome to the tester -

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The first is a professional seminar for those who plan to open their desktop games store. It met the owners of game clubs from all over Russia and the main domestic publishers \\ localizers of the velocity.

The second is the annual desktop bonus "Tester", established by the eponymous game portal. It awards the best Russian and foreign games issued for the previous year. My report with the 2011 Testers can be seen. Well, in this post you will see a lot of photos, download texts of experts on desktop games and learn what alert is recognized as the best for 2011!

Master class "" Store and Club of Board Games ""

6 rapporteurs performed, you can open PDF

http://youtu.be/ys4bsz5jcx4.

In general, the seminar was generally the first-like training master class in my memory, when publishers and clubmakers met face to face. Many made something new for themselves. Even the multiple Ivan Popov, the founder of the company "Hobby Games" and Kki "Berserk", with surprise he learned that in regional clubs there are not enough large infooplacates about the stands. I finally found out why our localization goes out in such excessively large boxes. For the rest of the useful information, the current and future store owners more revealed. They will have hard work - to promote board games. Russia is not Germany, we have only a monopoly and mancin, and the wardrobe in my room, the fair-packed games still surprises people more than the neighboring cabinet with books.

I am happy to want to introduce you from Akni.

The Association of Board Games has appeared recently, in December 2011. There were already united 55 clubs throughout Russia, they managed to notice the championships in the beautiful game "7 miracles", the photo contest "Tsoltowers 2012", and plans for the future - the exit desktop Maevka and the opening of the Board Games Museum - http://aknir.org/. Yes, this paragraph of text conquers in the nomination "The most frequent use of the word" table "in this post"!

A few pictures:

Results of the premium "" Tester-2012 ""

The award took part 73 nominees (board games issued in Russian from January 1 to December 31, 2011), 26 experts, 7 nominations and 7 laureates.

The expert jury spoke to publishers of games, bloggers and active readers of the portal testers. Alexander Bulgakov, Chief Novosnutnik Tester took into account the opinion of the whole jury on a complex scheme (see the link at the end of the post) and calculated the winners. Look!

http://youtu.be/thnctuvcz7i

Best children's game (out of 7 applicants):

1. "Jam" ("Right Games"; 75 points);
2. "Zoo" ("Magellan"; 56 points);
3. "Naughty checkers" ("Star"; 53 points).

Best atmosphere (out of 12 applicants):

1. "Metro 2033. 2nd Edition" ("The World of Hobbies"; 94 points),
2. "Victorium" (Victorium; 85 points),
3. "The Secret City" ("World Hobby"; 83 points).

Best Game Book (out of 6 applicants):

1. "Era Aquarius. 2nd edition "(" Gameology "; 63 points);
2. "The faithful sword of the king. 3rd edition "(" Live Book "; 53 points);
3. "The dungeons of the Black Castle. 3rd edition "(" Live Book "; 49 points).

Best military game (out of 9 applicants):

1. "Borodino battle 1812" ("Belli Status"; 84 points);
2. "Brotherhood of nine. Hexo-strategy "(" Moscow Toy Combine "; 77 points);
3. "Poltava Battle of 1709" ("Belli Status"; 66 points);
4. "Kulikovskaya battle 1380" ("Status Belli"; 66 points).

"Belli's Status" could not come, so Ivan Tulovsky accepted the award, and promised to convey :)

Best game for company (out of 12 applicants):

1. "Swints 2.0" ("Gameology"; 101 score);
2. "Zombies! Saw together who can! " ("Right games"; 83 points);
3. "Walkers" ("Magellan"; 74 points).

Timofey Bokarev shook his hand Timothy a loiter and happily accepted congratulations and prizes

Finally, it remains to declare the laureates of two permanent, basic nominations of the award.

1. "Agrikola" ("World Hobby"; 262 points);
2. "Civilization of Meyer Cyda" ("Hobby World"; 229 points);
3. "Dominion. Intrigue "(" World Hobby "; 200 points);
4. "Flat World. Ank-Corpork "(" Star "; 190 points);
5. "Forbidden Island" ("Lifestyle"; 141 points).

Nikolay Pegasov, Director of Business Development of the World Hobby Business (They Localized the game)

1. "Brotherhood of nine. Hexososthegia "(" Moscow Toy Combine "; 198 points);
2. "The Secret City" ("World Hobby"; 197 points);
3. "Swints 2.0" ("Gameology"; 194 points);
4. "Jam" ("Right Games"; 179 points);
5. "Metro 2033. 2nd Edition" ("World Hobby"; 177 points);
6. "Walkers" ("Magellan"; 159 points);
7. "Zombies! Saw together who can! " ("Right games"; 158 points);
8. "Save the holiday!" (Zany Family; 127 points);
9. Victorium (Victorium; 126 points);
10. "Fighter" ("Gameology"; 122 points).

Nominees with Testers-2011 and the best games of Russia for 2010 can be seen

Prize Tester 2012., the presentation of which was held last week, March 16, 2012 as part of a seminar on the organization of the book-game club. The premium nominated the games issued during 2011 (from January 1 to December 31) - only 73 nominees. In the framework of the award there were 7 nominations. The winners determined the jury of 26 people.

Jury Testers 2012. was formed from representatives of the desktop industry, blogosphere, as well as users Testers. Here is its composition:

Professionals of the Russian Board Games Market:

Timofey Bokarev ("Gameology");
Dmitry Kibkalo (Mosigra);
Alexander Nevsky (Igames);
Sergey Machin ("Right Games");
Sergey Ovcharenko (Akney);
Dmitry Pavlov ("Star");
Ivan Popov ("World Hobby");
Alexander Reshetnikov (Skvirl).

Blogosphere:

Mikhail Balandin ("Notes of the Novosibirsk Toolr");
Alexander Potto (Gravicapa, "Two Chips");
Boris Thunder ("Board games without bills");
Vlad Popkov (Snowbody);
Alexey Skvortsov (Uncle Lesha);
Yuri Tapilin;
Alexey Tikhonov (Alt, "Blog of Yellow Mipla");
Maxim Trophimenko (Mazz_o);
Slava Yumin (zordok, diced.ru);
Anna Yushina (NJUSE4KA, "Tombcoming").

Representatives Testers:

Alexey Abramov (Kosulya);
Ilya Pulza (Zuzubun);
Stas residents (STEVE);
Alexey Zuykov (Aelkoa);
Ildus Izanbirdine (Molecul);
Alexey Pupyshev (Alxin);
Alexander Taranenko (Taran);
Vlad Choporov (Vladdrak).

Before the start of the voting, a summary table was formed with all 7 nominations and a list of applicants' game for each nomination. This table was sent to the jury. Then each member of the jury compiled her rating of preferences in each category: Lined the game in order from the best to the worst (the table with the results of the voting is published on the network, but with preservation of anonymity - the names of the jury members are replaced by numbers).

Moreover, under the terms of the voting of the game, it was necessary to run out, it was impossible to assign one and the same place to two applicants. The exception was the last place, i.e. It was possible to do, for example, a small list of 3-5 best games, putting them in ranks, and to all other applicants in the nomination to assign the last place.

Then each game inside each category was charged. Their amount was determined by the special formula R \u003d n + 1 - P, where:

— P. - the place exposed by the game by an expert;

— N. - the number of games valued in the category of expert;

— R. - Number of points received by the game.

This formula allows us to take into account the qualification of the expert in a category or another. That is, the more he appreciates the games, the more points receive the game for the first place and the less - for the last one.

Prizes were awarded in 7 nominations:

best children's game;
the best atmosphere;
the best game book;
best military game;
the best game for the company;
the best game of the foreign author;
the best game of the Russian author.

Best Children's game (out of 7 applicants):

Jam ("Right games"; 75 points);
Zoomagia ("Magellan"; 56 points);
Naughty checkers ("Star"; 53 points).

In this nomination, my voice coincided with the voice of the majority. Although I voted on the residual principle, just besides Jam, with other children's games, I really do not know. Not even once played in the second-third place Zoomagia and Oh.

The best atmosphere (out of 12 applicants):

Metro 2033. 2nd edition ("Hobby World"; 94 points),
Victorium (Victorium; 85 points),
The secret city ("World Hobby"; 83 points).

In this nomination I did not vote. For two reasons. First - I do not really understand how to evaluate the atmosphere. Probably because I almost do not feel it. This, because, mostly representatives of the america are praised by such dignity, and I am not very susceptible to such games. Well, the second, I am not familiar with the applicants.

The best game book (out of 6 applicants):

Era Aquarius. 2nd edition ("Gameology"; 63 points);
The right sword of the king. 3rd edition ("Live Book"; 53 points);
The dungeon of the Black Castle. 3rd edition ("Live Book"; 49 points).

Standard nomination. In my opinion she is a little tied to the board games for the ears. No, it is clear that there are related entertainment, but nevertheless Era AquariusAs far as I understand it is role-playing games. A completely different hobby. And, for example, The right sword of the king (which, by the way, gave here first place), this is an even more different type of entertainment - the book game. And I am still not sure that book books can be compared with role-playing systems.

Best military game (out of 9 applicants):

Borodino battle 1812. ("Belli Status"; 84 points);
Brotherhood of nine. Hexosurategia ("Moscow Toy Combine"; 77 points);
Poltava battle 1709 ("Belli Status"; 66 points);
Kulikovskaya battle 1380 ("Status Belli"; 66 points).

What to say here, familiarity with games from Belli Status For me, limited Kursk. Therefore, in this nomination I gave first place Brotherhood nine. Maybe if I were familiar with a large number of applicants and could run them, my voice would be brought Brotherhood More points.

The best game for the company (out of 12 applicants):

Swints 2.0 ("Gameology"; 101 score);
Zombie! Saw together who can! ("Right games"; 83 points);
Walked ("Magellan"; 74 points).

When voting, I gave Swintus 2.0 Only second place. Mainly for the reasons that the game is albeit good, but, to a greater extent, processing already existing Swintsa. IN 2.0 Of course, there are original innovations, but I didn't like most of them. And first place I gave Halley Galli.

Agrikola. ("Hobby World"; 262 points);
Civilization of Side Meyer ("World Hobby"; 229 points);
Dominion. Intrigue ("World Hobby"; 200 points);
Flat world. Ank-Corporok ("Star"; 190 points);
Forbidden Island ("Lifestyle"; 141 points).

It is necessary 🙂 the top of the best games just the same coincided with my vote. No comments.

Brotherhood of nine. Hexosostrey ("Moscow Combine of Toys"; 198 points);
Secret city ("World Hobby"; 197 points);
Swints 2.0 ("Gameology"; 194 points);
Jam ("Right games"; 179 points);
Metro 2033. 2nd Edition ("World Hobby"; 177 points);
Lie ("Magellan"; 159 points);
Zombie! Saw together who can! ("Right games"; 158 points);
Save the holiday! (Zany Family; 127 points);
Victorium (Victorium; 126 points);
Fighter ("Gameology"; 122 points).

In general, it is not surprising that the first place in this nomination got Brotherhood nine. But what Secret city Led Brotherhood Only 1 point - for me a surprise. I can't say anything about the "city" because I didn't find strength in this game to play. For almost a year, she lies on the shelf. Yes, and in the network, in general, there were no particularly enthusiastic reviews about it. And here - you look, almost first place.

It is noteworthy that prizes are mainly divided among themselves World of Hobby and Gameology (They got 4 awards out of 7: 2 for each). More than one nomination received Belli Status, Right games and Moscow combine toys. Star I was able to conquer only 3rd place in the nomination "Children's game" with Naughty checkers and 4th in the nomination "The Best Game of the Foreign Author" (for Ank Corporok. Flat world). Nothing received a publisher Life style(by the way, representative Goroged This year, as in the past, there was no jury).

Comparing the results of this year with, it is impossible not to note some changes.

First, positive differences are traced in the composition of the jury. If last time it consisted mainly of publishers (because of which comments of the type "award themselves), now most of the members of the jury are ordinary players and bloggers. Publisher representatives are less than a third of the total.

Secondly, the list of nominations has changed.

Here is the list of 2011:

table game;
card game;
localization;
child Game;
game for the company;
military game;
the most beautiful game.

This year, from this list, "Children's Game", "Game for the Company", "Military Game" remained. "Localization" has become the "best game of a foreign author", and the nomination "Board game" and "Card game" united into the "best Russian author's game." "The most beautiful game" is no longer, instead of her "the best atmosphere" appeared. And the nomination "The Best Game Book" originated.

Thirdly, this year the nominees were more than in the past. And this is good. We left the situation of "unfortunate", in which the fish had to be forced to appoint crayfish and got the opportunity to choose the best games among really worthy applicants. Again, unlike last year, it was practically no obvious favorite in any of the nomination, everyone really solved the preferences of the jury. Although there is a manner that the organizers left the nomination "Best atmosphere" for themselves

In general, changes are positive. Tester 2012. Already behind, another presentation - in a year. Now the move behind the authors, developers and publishers. Their task is to release as much good games as possible, able to compete for Tester 2013.!

And a conclusion - photos from the event:

Ivan Tulovsky with a diploma for the best children's game - Jam

Another iconic event for the gaming industry risked remains unnoticed. I mean the presentation of the annual award in the area of \u200b\u200btable games of the tester.

But it was not there. The journalists from the site not only have penetrated the presentation ceremony on March 17, but also waited when the competition will end and people will start reading other blogs again. And now we are ready to tell you what kind of games that came out in 2010 are recognized as the most.

If you have not heard about this premium - know: it is given by the guys who made the website-encyclopedia on desktop games:

They have a big and regularly updated base of games. If you did not find an overview of the games you are interested in this blog, there is exactly there. And since they know all this, the establishment of an annual prize has become a natural and logical event.

Okay, I will not tire you more. But I will give Prufpicch that we were really there, and I will go to the description of the games that received a premium. At Piccch depicted Timofey Bocation, the producer of the project "Gameology", which tells journalists the history of board games.

In fact, the photo is just one thing, because I died the battery in the camera, but you do not speak anyone, okay?

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Typically, board games come up with mathematics. This is a rare exception, it came up with a candidate of biological sciences.

You manage the lizard population that live, evolve, fight for the frustration and place under the sun. What, with the word "evolve" you immediately thought about Pokemon? Yes, throw, what kind of pokemon evolution is a solid depth of science!