Bed And Breakfast Welcome Letter

Some planets die and are born ...

This week has been outstanding, as far as games are concerned, by server problems Bsk (the forum important in Spain on games) and the closure of Planet Bsk (page which contained the majority of posts in Castilian related games).

Wkr ( @ Wkr ) the owner of the Bsk, proposed an alternative that is:

Since I had to disable the Planet BSK by performance problems and server overload I decided to organize it differently. First I prepared a directory posts related to board games in BSK forum and in the coming days I will explain how to use different desktop applications and online feed reading so that each user can do independently ( I like its simplicity Reader Google Desktop). If you have a blog about games and are a user of the BSK these are the rules for working .

But among the alternatives, there was not the thing. After news of the closure of Planet Bsk some users were put to work to create alternatives to this page. Thus, it appeared:

creator Playful Planet is David Arribas, of Lúdica Vis. His aim was to make a separate page and as simple as possible. In his own words:

Playful Planet is a blog aggregator which compiles news and articles related to board games, centralizing much of the English-speaking blogs in one place and creating a network of blogs. This planet or aggregator is independent and aims to promote the blogs participating and increasing their visits to the time you create for the reader to a place where it is easy to see that at present entertaining.

If a blog you want to join Playful Metro must meet the following requirements:

1. The blog must be in English.
2. The theme of the blog should be the games or you can filter by categories (possibly only one).
3. is recommended that the feed page is complete for the experience of reading Playful Metro is as complete as possible, cut feed are allowed, but not allow posts where the feed display only the headline of the story.
4. A mailing list will serve as a form of communication managers attached to Planet Playful blogs.
5. The blog must maintain a label does not accept blogs where disqualify other blogs or not respecting the rest of the fans. To potential conflicts that are created as a result of this point will be used to solve the mailing list where administrators blogs adhere to the planet to address these issues and make a decision.

can also follow Playful Planet by Twitter in @ planetaludico .

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Another alternative is Stephane Cittadino of 5mpj , who created the News network. The philosophy is basically the same as the Metro Playful, the only difference is Stephane has used its own server to keep this space, incorporating it into their web.

As he explains, is now in testing, but it has brought together some 27 blogs about games. You can find the list of blogs that are now incorporated this link.

If you want your blog to appear in News on the web, send email to Stephane 5minutosporjuego @ 5mpj.es

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Finally, I would highlight a network of tools that have been shared from Gamblers , it is @ LudoMundoS.

LudoMundos is presented as a set of tools created by gamblers, but independent of the blog, to keep abreast of what is moving in the universe playful Hispanic. It is also an alternative for bringing together all sources of news, articles, videos, etc.. the universe of games in Castilian used to so the tools provided for free Google , Twitter and Facebook .

If you have a blog to comply with the conditions (discuss board games and be written in Castilian), you can contact maskleto@gmail.com .

------------------ Problems with Bsk and the closure of Planet Bsk have been the starting point of many discussions since the same forum and also on Twitter . Of course, there have been blogs that have been echoed by the news and who have given their views about the situation. Here are some entries that have appeared on the subject (in addition to the links that have already appeared in the entry):

Playful Planet, news aggregator by Worfylon ;

Playful Planet by IACT Alea est;

Fun and Friends of Metro Five Minutes per game by Dorian Hawckmoon;

Bsk and Bsk Metro by Minds Hexagon (mymenda)

And finally, an article of reflection from the Instituto de Estudios Solarísticos by Lev Mishkin: Board games, forums and network. The BSK.