Board-Games-Group-F

Project Title: How have board games changed over the last 20 years?

Team Members: Max Browning & Zach Gibbs

Project Description & Outline: Using Board Game Atlas, a popular forum for rating games and connecting with other gamers, we will look into board game trends over the last five years and see how those compare to prior years.

Defining Terms:

1. Mechanics - The style of game play by the players’ prominent action, such as dice rolling or deck building.
2. Mechanical Complexity - Number of mechanics in a game.
3. Player Counts - The number of players who can participate in the game at the same time.
4. One Player Games - Games that allow for a single player, but may include more.

Research Questions to Answer:

- Has the prevalence of one player games increased over time in the top 100 games of each year?
	Null- If one player games have not become more prevalent over time, then the percentage of games 
	allowing one player will not have increased over time.
	Alternate- If one player games have become more prevalent over time, then the percentage of games 
	allowing one player will have increased over time.
- Have games become more mechanically complex over time in the top 100 games of each year?
	Null- If games have not become more mechanically complex over time, then the average number of mechanics per game 
	will not increase year over year.
	Alternate- If games have become more mechanically complex over time, then the average number of mechanics per game 
	will increase year over year.

Datasets to Be Used:

Board Game Atlas API

Rough Breakdown of Tasks:

• Pull data from API (Top 100 games per year from 2000 to now)
• Clean data
  • Remove unnecessary rows
  • Decrypt Mechanic ID's for each game into a readable state
  • Remove any game with no mechanics listed
• Create summary dataframes for each year for mechanics and player count
• Create charts showing trends over time

Visualizations Created