{"id":9285,"date":"2018-04-03T17:21:19","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T17:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/?p=9285"},"modified":"2018-04-05T06:06:38","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T06:06:38","slug":"osaka-game-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/blog\/2018\/04\/03\/osaka-game-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Osaka Game Market"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Je reviens d\u2019un week-end au Japon lors duquel j\u2019ai particip\u00e9 au Game Market d\u2019Osaka, qui m\u2019a donn\u00e9 l\u2019occasion d\u2019observer de pr\u00e8s, quoique rapidement, le minimalisme japonais en mati\u00e8re de jeu de soci\u00e9t\u00e9, dont j\u2019ai d\u00e9crit l\u2019\u00e9mergence dans un autre article de ce blog<\/a>, il y a cinq ans de cela.<\/p>\n

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Osaka n\u2019est pas vraiment une ville touristique, et le quartier de Cosmo Square, o\u00f9 se d\u00e9roulait le salon, est un bel exemple d\u2019architecture grandiloquente des ann\u00e9es soixante-dix, tours froides et bulles creuses sur vastes dalles de b\u00e9ton.
\nDans un hall parfaitement rectangulaire, de nombreux petits \u00e9diteurs, pr\u00e9sentaient leurs derni\u00e8res cr\u00e9ations. Le public, nombreux, \u00e9tait encore plus masculin qu\u2019en Europe et aux \u00c9tats-Unis. Le salon ne durait qu\u2019une journ\u00e9e, les all\u00e9es \u00e9taient bond\u00e9es, beaucoup de jeux n\u2019avaient de r\u00e8gles qu\u2019en japonais, et je n\u2019ai donc pu jeter qu\u2019un coup d\u2019\u0153il rapide, incomplet et superficiel. La tendance au minimalisme se confirme clairement, la quasi-totalit\u00e9 des jeux en vente, souvent \u00e9dit\u00e9s \u00e0 compte d\u2019auteur, \u00e9tant des jeux de cartes dans de petites boites rectangulaires. Graphiquement, on peut clairement distinguer deux \u00e9coles, la tendance baroque manga\/anime tout en couleurs vives, et la tendance abstraite\/minimaliste aux couleurs tout aussi vives mais moins nombreuses et moins m\u00e9lang\u00e9es. Quel que soit le style graphique, un jeu sur trois environ semble avoir pour th\u00e8me les chats.<\/p>\n

N\u2019\u00e9tant au Japon que pour un week-end, j\u2019avais une petite valise, et n\u2019ai pas pu rapporter grand chose. J\u2019ai donc achet\u00e9 un peu au hasard une dizaine de jeux ayant des r\u00e8gles en anglais, ou dont on m\u2019a promis que les r\u00e8gles en anglais seraient bient\u00f4t sur le BGG.<\/p>\n

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Aucun \u00e9diteur europ\u00e9en ou am\u00e9ricain n\u2019\u00e9tait pr\u00e9sent, et le march\u00e9 japonais reste visiblement un peu \u00e0 part. Quelques \u00e9diteurs, comme Arclight ou Hobby Base, importent ou traduisent des jeux occidentaux, qui sont les seules grosses boites que j\u2019ai pu voir sur le salon. D\u2019autres \u00e9diteurs, comme Japon Brand, s\u2019efforcent plut\u00f4t de trouver des \u00e9diteurs occidentaux pour adapter les meilleures cr\u00e9ations locales. Oink semble le seul \u00e0 chercher, avec un certain succ\u00e8s, \u00e0 publier \u00e0 l\u2019identique des jeux au look minimaliste pour les march\u00e9s japonais et occidentaux – j\u2019aimerais bien avoir un truc chez eux un jour, car j\u2019aime beaucoup leur style. De plus en plus d\u2019\u00e9diteurs europ\u00e9ens ou am\u00e9ricains font aussi leurs courses sur les petits salons japonais, mais ils pr\u00e9f\u00e8rent le Game Market de Tokyo, plus grand, qui se tient dans un mois – il faudra aussi que j\u2019y aille un jour.<\/p>\n

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M\u00eame les jeux occidentaux, qui sont aujourd\u2019hui largement les m\u00eames en Europe et aux \u00c9tats-Unis, ne sont pas les m\u00eames au Japon. Mon Vabanque<\/a> vient de ressortir l\u00e0 bas alors qu\u2019il n\u2019est plus disponible en Europe depuis une quinzaine d\u2019ann\u00e9es. Parmi les jeux les plus jou\u00e9s sur le salon, j\u2019ai remarqu\u00e9 Gangsi, une r\u00e9\u00e9dition chinoise de la Pyramide de Marcel-Andr\u00e9 Casasola-Merkle, et le bon vieux Fant\u00f4mes d\u2019Alex Randolph, un peu oubli\u00e9 chez nous, auquel j\u2019ai eu grand plaisir \u00e0 rejouer.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>Avec Seiji Kanai et Hisashi Hayashi<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

L\u2019apr\u00e8s-midi, j\u2019ai particip\u00e9 \u00e0 une discussion avec deux des plus grands auteurs japonais, Seiji Kanai et Hisashi Hayashi, et celui qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 l\u2019initiateur du renouveau du jeu de soci\u00e9t\u00e9 au Japon, Nobuaki Takerube. Nous avons beaucoup parl\u00e9 de Citadelles, de Love Letter, de minimalisme, de l\u2019histoire et des perspectives du march\u00e9 du jeu au Japon.<\/p>\n

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Ce fut aussi l’occasion d’annoncer ma premi\u00e8re vraie collaboration avec un auteur japonais, la nouvelle \u00e9dition de Greedy Kingdoms, de Hayato Kisaragi, qui n\u2019\u00e9tait malheureusement pas pr\u00e9sent. Ce petit jeu de bluff pour deux joueurs, qui fait un tout petit peu penser \u00e0 Citadelles, sortira cette ann\u00e9e chez AEG. Plus d’infos l\u00e0 dessus bient\u00f4t….<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m back from a week-end in Japan, where I attended the Osaka game market. Five years ago, I had described here<\/a> the emergence of a \u00ab\u00a0Japanese minimalist school\u00a0\u00bb of game design. This was a good opportunity to have a closer (but too short) look at it.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Osaka is not really a tourist venue, and the Cosmo Square district, where the even was taking place, is a typical example of grandiloquent architecture from the seventies, with cold towers and hollow bubbles standing over overlarge concrete esplanades.<\/em>
\nIn a perfectly rectangular hall, scores of small publishers were demoing their latest offerings for an overwhelmingly male attendance. The fair lasted only one day, the alleys were overcrowded, most games had rules only in Japanese, so my impression is necessarily partial and superficial. The minimalist trend is still very strong. Most of the games on sale were self published card games in small one or two deck size boxes. Graphically, there are clearly two schools, a baroque one inspired by manga and anime, with lots of bright colors, and an abstract minimalist whose bright colors are less numerous and more clearly separated. No matter their graphic style, more or less one game in three was about cats.<\/em><\/p>\n

Since I was in Japan only for a few days, I had a small suitcase and could not bring many games back home. I bought nine, more or less at random among the few ones with english rules or whose english rules I\u2019ve been promised will soon be uploaded on BGG.<\/em><\/p>\n

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There was no western publisher there, and the Japanese boardgames market is still clearly apart from the western one. A few publishers, like Arclight or Hobby Base, import or localise western games, which were the only really big boxes to be seen. Other ones, like Japon Brand, try to find western publishers for the best Japanese designs. Oink seems to be only publisher trying, with some success, to publish the same minimalistic looking games on both western and Japanese markets – I\u2019d love to have them publish one of my games, since I really like the look of their boxes. More and more European or American publishers are also trying to find original designs in Japan, but they mostly go to the bigger Tokyo game market, one month later. I should also go there some day. <\/em><\/p>\n

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Even western games, which are now mostly the same in the US and in Europe, are not the same in Japan. My Vabanque<\/a>, which has not been available in Europe for fifteen years, has just been republished there. Among the most played games on the fair were a Gangsi, a Chinese version of Marcel-Andre Casasola-Merkle Pyramid game, and Alex Randolph\u2019s good old Ghost, which is almost forgotten here and which I had great fun playing again.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>With Seiji Kanai & Hisashi Hayashi<\/span><\/p>\n

In the afternoon, I took part in a public discussion with two of the most influential Japanese designers, Seiji Kanai and Hisashi Hayashi, and the originator of the Japanese boardgames renaissance, Nobuaki Takerube. We talked about Citadels, Love Letter, minimalism, and of the history and perspectives of boardgames in Japan.<\/em><\/p>\n

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It was also a good opportunity to announce my first collaboration with a Japanese game designer, the development of a new version of Hayato Kisaragi\u2019s Greedy Kingdoms. this small two player bluffing card game, which feels a bit like Citadels, will be published later this year by AEG. More about this soon…
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