Learning Video Game Design - Making Board Games

Time for a quick post.

Even though I'm reading two courses about video game design right now, I'm currently tasked with making a board game (in a group) in each course. Why is that? In my opinion, the reason for this is because video games and board games has more stuff in common than most people might think when it comes to the design part of the respective kind of game. For example, if you break down a strategy video games and a strategy board game, I'm pretty sure that you will notice many similarities between the games. I'm currently working on a post where I'm talking about what video games can learn from board games when it comes to randomness The post is going to be long though, so it will be a while before that post comes up.