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In 1978, the German press and board game makers created the Spiel des Jahres, or ’Game of the Year’ award for excellence in board game design. Competition for this award contributed to an explosion in the variety and sophistication of ’Euro-games.’ With the arrival of The Settlers of Catan in the United States in the mid-nineties, more people began to discover the new breed of board game that had been quietly evolving in Germany for the past 30 years. Going Cardboard takes you into the world of ’designer’ board gaming, from the community of enthusiastic fans to the publishers and self-publishers, and of course, the designers. I feel kind of bad applying critical standards to this movie. I’m sure it was never the film maker’s intent to make a documentary in the same league of The Thin Blue Line or Bowling For Columbine. It is simply the work of an amateur film maker who loves board games and who wanted document the scene for fellow fans.
