1 February 2020

Much more than just numbers



Numbers. Of projects, inventory, attendances, sales.
Numbers. Marking moments, dates, meetings.
Numbers. That are not mere numbers.
Numbers. With people behind them.
Numbers. With connected people.
Numbers. Lived.


                1   own game under development
                1   rule book translation under way
                3   games of other designs being tested
                5   unplayed games in the collection, if I counted right
              10   compound annual growth rate (%) for the boardgame market 2018-24
              12   games in the shortest list of all the future acquisitions' list
              15   editions of Leiria Con, Leiria, Portugal, completed next March
              20   years of BoardGameGeek (BGG)
              25   years after the publication of The Settlers of Catan
              64   squares in a chess board
            100   blog entries so far
            108   games from Portuguese designers on BGG
            361   intersections in a Go-board
            437   members of Boardgamers de Portugal, on Facebook (FB)
            570   components in CO2 - Second Chance
         1 939   year of the foundation of Majora game company, Porto, Portugal
         1 952   year of the foundation of Avalon Hill, Maryland, USA
         1 980   first number of french magazine Jeux & Stratégie
         2 020   the current year, according to our time counting system
       18 514   games ranked in BGG
       40 761   members of The Boardgame Group, on FB
       70 000   visitors to GenCon, Indiana, USA
     100 000   visitors to Cannes Games Festival, France
     209 000   visitors to Essen Spiel, Essen, Germany
     219 382   backers of Exploding Kittens on Kickstarter (KS)
  1 135 258   euros pledged on KS, by Madeira and On Mars, games with Portuguese design
12 393 139   dollars pledged on KS by Kingdom Death Monster

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