Economic Theory and Game Mechanics Integration
Board games often incorporate economic themes by designing game mechanics that replicate economic behaviours and principles. This includes resource allocation, trading, market dynamics, and financial decision-making.
Resource Management and Allocation
Resource management entails the strategic distribution of limited resources to achieve goals within the game. Fundamental elements of scarcity and opportunity cost are explored as players decide how best to utilize their available assets.
Trading and Negotiation
Trading introduces an element of negotiation and relative value assessment, allowing players to exchange goods and services to mutual benefit or competitive advantage. Games like "Settlers of Catan" involve players bartering resources, reflecting real-world trade dynamics.
Market Dynamics and Financial Systems
Market dynamics are simulated with fluctuating prices for goods and services based on supply and demand. "Power Grid" is an example where players must adapt to changing energy markets. Additionally, some games incorporate stock markets or commodity trading, where players buy and sell ownership in businesses or goods, aiming to optimize returns on investment, a concept drawn directly from financial economics.
Strategic Interaction and Game Theory
Strategic interaction in board games, including competition, cooperation, and prediction of others' actions, illustrates game theory aspects. Here, players must anticipate rivals' strategies, reminiscent of competitive markets.
Economic Systems and Structures
Board games can represent different economic systems, like capitalism in "Monopoly" or feudalism in "Catan". Players often engage in activities that mirror real-world economic structures, such as running businesses, acquiring properties, or building infrastructures.
Currency and Banking
The incorporation of currency and banking mechanisms, where players earn, trade, and manage money, is another reflection of real-world economies. In-game currency management simulates the need for financial literacy in real life.
Risk and Investment
Many economic-themed games require players to assess investment risks and make decisions on where to allocate resources for potential future gains. The mechanism echoes the real-world concept of investment under uncertainty.
Tableau-Building and Worker Placement
Some games use tableau-building and worker placement mechanics, where players develop a personal area of play (like a factory or business) or allocate "workers" to perform certain tasks, representing labor economics and operational management.
Economic Policy and Regulation
Rarely, games introduce elements of economic policy and regulation where players may have to contend with changes in rules (laws) or random events (market shocks) that affect the overall game economy.
Economic Themes in Board Games
Economic board games are multifaceted. They often blend resource management, negotiation, market simulation, and strategic decision-making into an interactive experience, providing players with a platform to understand and engage with complex economic principles and strategies.
Jeux utilisants Selection Order Bid à thématique Economic
Jeux utilisants Commodity Speculation à thématique Economic
Jeux utilisants Action Retrieval à thématique Economic
Jeux publiés par Kaissa Chess & Games à thématique Economic
Jeux utilisants Variable Player Powers à thématique Economic
Jeux utilisants Tech Trees / Tech Tracks à thématique Economic
In Potions of Azerland you will, you guessed it, make potions!Gather resources from the forest, increase your knowledge in various potion types, go to the market to collect and trade goods, then make your potions to drink for unique powers or fulfill...
Potions of Azerland
50,00 $US
40,00 $US
Conquest & Consequence brings the Triumph & Tragedy system to the Pacific/East Asia theater during the same 1936-1945 time period. Like T&T, it is designed for three players, maintaining the three-sided dynamic that adds so much variety and intrigue ...
Conquest & Consequence
115,00 $US
50,00 $US
Jeux utilisants Events à thématique Economic
Jeux illustrés par Lars-Arne "Maura" Kalusky à thématique Economic
Jeux conçus par Uwe Rosenberg à thématique Economic
Jeux à thématique Trains et Economic
Jeux utilisants Simultaneous Action Selection à thématique Economic
Jeux publiés par TLAMA games à thématique Economic
Jeux publiés par Ediciones MasQueOca à thématique Economic
Jeux utilisants Action Queue à thématique Economic
Jeux à thématique Ancient Civilization et Economic
Jeux utilisants Hand Management à thématique Economic
Jeux publiés par Korea Boardgames à thématique Economic
Jeux conçus par Vital Lacerda à thématique Economic
Jeux à thématique Medieval et Economic
Jeux utilisants Open Drafting à thématique Economic
Jeux utilisants Territory Building à thématique Economic
Jeux utilisants Worker Placement à thématique Economic
Each player represents a mining company drilling the Earth to get resources. But drilling often request the help of other players (forced or not). Each one therefore moves four drills on the arcs stratum of the planet to successfully implement his mines...
Rockwell
19,95 $US
12,00 $US
Hey Orc! Are you sad that the days of heroes are in the past? Dive into the world of business, a vortex of competition, a fight to be the best!Orconomics is an economic game like no other, with its peculiar setting, Orcish humor, and great artwork. ...
Orconomics (2nd Edition)
44,90 $US
39,90 $US
Jeux conçus par Stevo Torres à thématique Economic
Blume
-14 %
34,95 $US
30,00 $US
Blume is a game about collecting flowers and selling them at the market. Platers plant and prune all while determining the value of each type of flower they’ll sell. Whoever makes the most from their flower sales wins the game!
mitigé, 57 %
6 ans et +
1 à 5 joueurs
30 minutes
Détendu
Abstract Game
Economic
Flowers
Pattern Building
Pattern Recognition
Tile Placement
Card Game à thématique Economic
From dank dungeon entrances to magical market squares, Adventure Marts magically pop into existence wherever they are needed. Busier locations require more than one store, and each one needs a Manager...that's where you come in!Outsmart your competition...
Adventure Mart
45,00 $US
23,99 $US
Believe in Your FutureThere are six companies that will change the world as we know it! You can be part of their success and be an investor. Try to become rich by making the right decisions!Only the one biggest investor can get money out of each company...
Startups
23,00 $US
15,00 $US
Jeux à thématique City Building et Economic
Jeux utilisants End Game Bonuses à thématique Economic
Jeux développés par Johnathan Harrington à thématique Economic
Hamlet: The Village Building Game
-42 %
49,99 $US
28,80 $US
In this tile-placing game with an emergent economy, players construct buildings that everyone can use in order to create materials, refine resources, earn money, and make important deliveries to construct the Hamlet's big landmark - the Church.Hamlet...
mitigé, 61 %
14 ans et +
1 à 4 joueurs
60 minutes
Impliqué
Solo / Solitaire Game
Animals
City Building
Market
Modular Board
Network and Route Building
Pick-up and Deliver
Jeux publiés par Regatul Jocurilor à thématique Economic
Jeux illustrés par Katherine Boils à thématique Economic
As seen on Kickstarter! Connecting Flights is a board game for 1-5 players, where your task is to manage an airline. The game can be played competitively (2-5 players) or in a solo/cooperative mode (1-3 players) in 60-150 mins.The competitive mode features...
Connecting Flights
28,00 $US
25,00 $US
1960. Cold War is upon the world. In the dark shadows, agencies are gathering intelligence on financial institutions, political figures, military installations, and top-secret technology advancements. However, where one agency thinks they exclusive access...
Shadow Network
50,00 $US
30,00 $US
Jeux publiés par Raven Distribution à thématique Economic
Mint Delivery
-21 %
13,99 $US
10,99 $US
Mint Delivery is a mint tin-sized, refreshingly light, pick-up-and-deliver board game designed to be quick-to-play and easy-to-learn with a small footprint.In the game, players take the role of a mint delivery truck driver, driving around the area taking...
mitigé, 56 %
13 ans et +
1 à 5 joueurs
15 to 30 minutes
Légé
Economic
Industry / Manufacturing
Action Points
Contracts
Increase Value of Unchosen Resources
Pick-up and Deliver
Jeux utilisants Predictive Bid à thématique Economic
Gempire - Zarmund's Demands
0,00 $US
Gempire is the strategic hidden-action, city-building board game with different victory conditions virtually every time you play! King Zarmund is holding a grand competition to decide his new capital city! He'll make 3 random demands at the beginning...
très positif, 94 %
14 ans et +
3 à 5 joueurs
45 minutes
Impliqué
Strategy Game
City Building
Civilization
Betting
Bluffing
Deduction
Market
