I use board games to teach game design because board games let you focus on the game itself; there is no coding and only limited art.
Quotes about board games
With computer games, exploring the rules seems to be part of the game; with board games most people want to know beforehand what they’ll play.
Boardgaming is always going to be a small hobby, which to my mind is a good thing.
But board games usually do not offer both good immersion and good gameplay. There is a reason for that—the game mechanics themselves. To achieve real immersion, you need the player to forget about mechanics and approach the game situations intuitively, as if they were real.
Board games are flexible and changeable (computers cannot make exceptions to any rule they are programmed to execute)—Games should and need to be living documents.
