{"id":16050,"date":"2023-09-26T11:49:56","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T11:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/?p=16050"},"modified":"2023-09-26T11:49:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T11:49:56","slug":"archive-de-la-ludotheque-ideale-an-archive-of-the-ideal-game-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/blog\/2023\/09\/26\/archive-de-la-ludotheque-ideale-an-archive-of-the-ideal-game-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Archive de la ludoth\u00e8que id\u00e9ale <br><i>An archive of the ideal game library<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cropped-v314-shaman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-attachment-id=\"8529\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/cropped-v314-shaman-jpg\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cropped-v314-shaman.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"512,512\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"cropped-v314-shaman.jpg\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cropped-v314-shaman.jpg&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cropped-v314-shaman.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cropped-v314-shaman-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cropped-v314-shaman-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cropped-v314-shaman-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cropped-v314-shaman-270x270.jpg 270w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cropped-v314-shaman-192x192.jpg 192w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cropped-v314-shaman-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cropped-v314-shaman-32x32.jpg 32w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cropped-v314-shaman.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iain Cheyne a r\u00e9cup\u00e9r\u00e9, grace \u00e0 la machine \u00e0 voyager dans le temps d&#8217;Internet, The <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/web\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wayback Machine<\/a>,  l&#8217;ensemble des critiques de jeux que j&#8217;avais publi\u00e9es sur mon site dans les ann\u00e9es 2000, sous le nom un peu pr\u00e9tentieux de <a href=\"https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/collection\/user\/faidutti_ludotheque?comment=1&amp;subtype=boardgame&amp;ff=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ludoth\u00e8que id\u00e9ale.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Les raisons pour lesquelles j&#8217;avais cess\u00e9 de mettre \u00e0 jour, puis enti\u00e8rement effac\u00e9, cet ensemble de 700 et quelques petites critiques de jeux de soci\u00e9t\u00e9 sont multiples. <br>Il y a bien s\u00fbr une explication technique, le site et la base de donn\u00e9es \u00e9taient obsol\u00e8tes et devenaient difficiles \u00e0 mettre \u00e0 jour, mais ce n&#8217;est pas l&#8217;essentiel. <br>La ludoth\u00e8que id\u00e9ale avait du sens \u00e0 une \u00e9poque o\u00f9 il \u00e9tait encore possible \u00e0 une personne isol\u00e9e comme moi de plus ou moins tout savoir sur les jeux de soci\u00e9t\u00e9 publi\u00e9s, et donc d&#8217;en pr\u00e9senter une vision encyclop\u00e9dique. J&#8217;ai donc cess\u00e9 lorsque les sorties sont devenues trop nombreuses. La seule d\u00e9marche encyclop\u00e9dique possible aujourd&#8217;hui, quand il sort plus de mille jeux par an, est celle de sites communautaires comme le Boardgagegeek.<br>Enfin, concevoir des jeux est peu \u00e0 peu devenu mon m\u00e9tier. M\u00eame en me restreignant comme je le faisais d\u00e9lib\u00e9r\u00e9ment \u00e0 ne publier que des critiques positives, \u00eatre \u00e0 la fois auteur et critique me mettait de plus en plus souvent en porte \u00e0 faux.<br><br>Beaucoup ont regrett\u00e9 la disparition de ces critiques de jeux. R\u00e9cup\u00e9r\u00e9es par Iain Cheyne et publi\u00e9es aujourd&#8217;hui sur le boardgamegeek, elles ont surtout un int\u00e9r\u00eat historique. Elles nous renvoient \u00e0 une \u00e9poque o\u00f9 les jeux \u00e9taient moins nombreux et, pour la plupart, plus m\u00e9chants et moins sophistiqu\u00e9s &#8211; ce qui peut \u00eatre un bien ou un mal. <br>En scrollant rapidement dans la tr\u00e8s longue page reprenant toutes ces critiques, je constate avec surprise que j&#8217;ai enti\u00e8rement oubli\u00e9 une grande partie de ces jeux que j&#8217;avais pourtant suffisamment aim\u00e9 pour en faire des critiques \u00e9logieuses. Je suis aussi assez \u00e9tonn\u00e9 de voir que mon anglais, dont je pensais qu&#8217;il avait surtout progress\u00e9 ces derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es, n&#8217;\u00e9tait d\u00e9j\u00e0 pas si mauvais.<br><br>Bref, si cela vous amuse, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/collection\/user\/faidutti_ludotheque?comment=1&amp;subtype=boardgame&amp;ff=1\" target=\"_blank\">c&#8217;est l\u00e0 :<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/card7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"282\" height=\"300\" data-attachment-id=\"651\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/blog\/2012\/05\/01\/la-vallee-des-mammouths-valley-of-the-mammoths\/card7\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/card7.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"941,1000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Bruno Shaman\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/card7.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/card7-282x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-651\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/card7-282x300.jpg 282w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/card7.jpg 941w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Using the internet time travel machine, The <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/web\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wayback Machine<\/a>, Iain Cheyne managed to get back all the boardgame reviews I published on my website in the 2000s under a rather pretentious title, <a href=\"https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/collection\/user\/faidutti_ludotheque?comment=1&amp;subtype=boardgame&amp;ff=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the ideal game library.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ideal game library was a database of more than 700 short boardgame reviews, in French and broken English. had removed it from my website for several reasons.<br>First, there was a technical issue. the website and the game database were becoming obsolete. Maintaining and updating them was time consuming. This was not, however, the main reason. <br>The ideal game library made sense in a time when it was still possible for one single and dedicated person to know more or less everything about the games that were published, and to present them in a more or less encyclopedic way. I had to stop when the number of new publications became too high. With a thousand new games published every year now, the only way to keep maintaining a kind of encyclopedia or catalog of games, or even only of good games, is through a communautary website, like the Boardgamegeek.  <br>Last, designing games has progressively become my main professional activity. Even when restricting myself to discuss games I was really enjoying, this was putting more and more often in awkward situations.<br><br>Many gamers have expressed their regret about the disappearance of these game reviews. Iain Cheyne got them back and has now published all of them on the Boardgamegeek. their main interest now is historical. They send today&#8217;s gamers back to a time when there were fewer boardgames, and when most of them were nastier and less sophisticated &#8211; which can be both good and bad.  <br>I&#8217;ve scrolled rapidly through the long new ideal game library listing. I&#8217;m surprised to realize that I don&#8217;t remember anything of more or less half of these games I had liked enough to praise them in my reviews. I also notice that my written English was not as bad I thought it was, which also means it didn&#8217;t imrpove that much these last years.<br><br>Anyway, if you want to have a look, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/collection\/user\/faidutti_ludotheque?comment=1&amp;subtype=boardgame&amp;ff=1\" target=\"_blank\">it&#8217;s there :<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iain Cheyne a r\u00e9cup\u00e9r\u00e9, grace \u00e0 la machine \u00e0 voyager dans le temps d&#8217;Internet, The Wayback Machine, l&#8217;ensemble des critiques de jeux que j&#8217;avais publi\u00e9es sur mon site dans les ann\u00e9es 2000, sous le nom un peu pr\u00e9tentieux de ludoth\u00e8que &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/blog\/2023\/09\/26\/archive-de-la-ludotheque-ideale-an-archive-of-the-ideal-game-library\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-le-monde-du-jeu-game-trends-and-styles","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2HNOP-4aS","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/card9.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16050"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16053,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16050\/revisions\/16053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}