the essential
Fabrice Abadie and Etienne André, active members of the Le Pion de fer association, organizers of the festival this weekend at the Tarbes exhibition center, are giving a facelift to the world of board games.
It was thanks to covid that Fabrice Abadie reconnected with board games. “Before, I was much more into video games. I stuck with Uno and Monopoly but when I returned to the board game, I realized that I had missed 20 years of evolution.
We can say that covid has relaunched board games in France” testifies this presenter at the MJC (Maison des jeunesse et de la culture) in Odos.
Looking at the crowds that stormed the gaming tables on Saturday morning for the second board game festival at the exhibition center, there is no doubt.
For Etienne André, professional firefighter, the passion is also recent: only three years. But he contracted the virus very quickly. Within the association Le Pion de fer, which organizes the festival, in which he plays an active role like his friend Fabrice, he plays “three times a week, for 4 to 8 hours per week”.
Escape from reality “by inventing a society”
“The fact of being able to gather together around a table and create emotions” is a constant among many players who can also escape from reality “by inventing a society”.
Like Fabrice Abadie who has a preference for “narrative games because I need to immerse myself in a story”. With these thirty-somethings, the board game has taken on a facelift and now has the cards in hand to become fashionable again.
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