Board games have supposedly been played in China for 4,000 years. But are local designers ready to take the industry to new heights?
Like ants sensing their way, the eager crowd instinctually headed for the single large hall at Beijing’s National Agricultural Exhibition Center. DICE CON 2024, China’s largest board game convention attended annually by more than 10,000 people, held its eighth or ninth edition since 2015 (depending on whether you count a scaled-down pandemic version in 2022) during a weekend in late August.