Talk:Barca (board game)

Invented by Caldwell?

How could the game be "invented by Caldwell" (lead) when the name of the game, and its rules, were pulled from a work of fiction (as noted in section Popular Culture)?:

Barca is described in the fantasy fiction book Mortals & Deities - Book Two of the Genesis of Oblivion Saga by Maxwell Alexander Drake. In Drake's fantasy world it is an ancient game with the same name and rules as Barca ...

A game = (its name) + (its rules). Ihardlythinkso (talk) 10:02, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

Jetan is also a chess variant originally presented in a work of fiction, but even with unclear rules in that work, no one would declare inventor status for Jetan, superceding the creative work of author Burroughs. Ihardlythinkso (talk) 10:09, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for noting the contradiction implied by the poor wording of that section. The description of the game that appears in the book was drawn from Caldwell's boardgame, not the other way around. This fact is evidenced by the following: Barca was published in 2007, prior to inclusion in the book by Drake in 2009. Drake thanks and credits Caldwell with creation of the game on the book's acknowledgments page. There is also a full-page ad for the Barca boardgame on the last page of the book. I changed the wording of the section you quoted to hopefully avoid confusion about the game's provenance. Jmalvarado (talk) 07:09, 25 February 2019 (UTC)