Update: 100 Participants! Survey limit reached! Thank you all! I will get in touch with the 3 winners by the end of the week.
Disclaimer: Sorry for not posting this in German, as the survey is setup to be collect global feedback.
Hey folks, i need your brains
Dear Boardgame Community,
if you fully complete this survey and we reach 100 participants,
I will give away 3x 10€ in cash or 3x any kind of voucher, however you prefer it. The winners will be drawn randomly once the reached the goal.
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Intro:
My name ist Daniel, 30 years of age and i live and work in Frankfurt, Germany.
Over the years of playing board games, I have stumbled over certain obstacles or nuisances when looking for new games or checking my collection (400+ Games). On top, I always wanted to better understand my taste in board games (I usually play everything) and I started asking myself questions, such as: What are my favourite mechanics, genres, player counts, play times and which combinations of these work best for me? Which of these two board games to buy, as they are so similar? Which game involves all the mechanics that i love and how do i find that? If I like these X games and I like these Y mechanics, which game would i also like?
Coming from a number driven background, I seek to quantify, structure and analyse things, whilst creating great value in doing so. Therefore, I started working with a small team on analysing board games and their mechanics, components, rules, and everything you can find to build a complex and more detailed data base than anything currently available on the market.
Although the project is in the early stages, I believe this will help to make better purchasing decisions and provide more transparency for the gamers. It will be more approachable for new players to find their way through the ocean of existing games and help them find their game although they have limited experience but will have the data depths for real board game geeks to play around with as well as a standardized stream of information to quickly screen new board games / features.
Mission:
Create transparency, new standards, and better overview for you within the rapidly growing board game market
Vision:
Become the go to place for finding, comparing new board games, and managing your collection
Features and Benefits:
- Data base with a deeper rating system for everything around board games, to provide you with more transparency
- A standardized overview, to make games more comparable so you can make the right purchasing or selling decisions
- Filtering system and key analysis shown, to make finding the best game for you easy
- New website and app (2nd priority) to bring the online presence of board games to the next level
- Detailed Collection Management and Analysis to keep your collection optimized, accessible and easy to maintain
- Create a personal taste survey and a unique board game profile. This will enable you to detail out your board game taste, which will tell you which board game would best fit you. It also will enable you to match your taste to your collection to see any discrepancies
- "Games like" search functionality: click games you like to receive leads for similar ones OR adjust criteria of that board game (e.g. dont like luck in games -> reduce luck rating in filter) to find the perfect game for you
To enrich and/or challenge our idea, understand the value we can add to YOU and verify the demand, we would like your input.
I would love to hear your honest thoughts here or in the survey.
To understand your "market", i setup a survey that goes more into details and takes about 5 minutes to complete with a chance to win some prices.
SURVEY LINK CLOSED
Thanks and best regards
Daniel