http://www.raphkoster.com/2007/12/07/monopoly-ww2-hero/ Raph Koster's personal website: MMOs, gaming, writing, art, music, books Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:02:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.raphkoster.com/2007/12/07/monopoly-ww2-hero/comment-page-1/#comment-130719 Mike Rozak Sun, 09 Dec 2007 05:43:38 +0000 http://www.raphkoster.com/2007/12/07/monopoly-ww2-hero/#comment-130719 Sounds like a game design no-no to me. Isn't that breaking "the magic circle"? And encouraging RMT with all those real currencies? :-P Sounds like a game design no-no to me. Isn’t that breaking “the magic circle”? And encouraging RMT with all those real currencies?

]]> http://www.raphkoster.com/2007/12/07/monopoly-ww2-hero/comment-page-1/#comment-130676 Will Emigh Sat, 08 Dec 2007 04:48:46 +0000 http://www.raphkoster.com/2007/12/07/monopoly-ww2-hero/#comment-130676 If this interests you, Paul Orbannes' book "Monopoly: the World's Most Famous Game" talks about it in detail as well. In <a href="http://www.studiocypher.com/archives/2007/11/26/unread_monopoly_the_worlds_most/" rel="nofollow">my opinion</a>, there are a lot of great tidbits in the book (like the changes that had to be made to Monopoly to get it approved in anti-capitalist countries) embedded in a less coherent history of the game. If this interests you, Paul Orbannes’ book “Monopoly: the World’s Most Famous Game” talks about it in detail as well. In my opinion, there are a lot of great tidbits in the book (like the changes that had to be made to Monopoly to get it approved in anti-capitalist countries) embedded in a less coherent history of the game.

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