legacy
adjEtymology From Middle English legacie, from Old French legacie and Medieval Latin lēgātia, from Latin lēgātum. The boardgame sense was coined by game designer Rob Daviau in 2011 with the game Risk Legacy.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Especially Left over from the past; old and no longer current.
- They have no idea what occurs in the network or its topology, and all of the services remain dependent on it — a very legacy approach to creating services in the optical network.2000, International Engineering Consortium, The Emerging Optical Network, →ISBN, page 75:
- However, pre-relational DBMS are legacy.2003, Carlo Zaniolo, Peter C. Lockemann, Marc H. Scholl, Advances in Database Technology - EDBT 2000, →ISBN:
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- Finally, the organisation ends up with an expensive ERP of which it uses only part because of divergent evolutionary directions and a set of new systems fast becoming legacy.2006, Anne Gams Steine Asserson, Eduard J. Simons, Enabling Interaction and Quality: Beyond the Hanseatic League, →ISBN, page 118:
- There was talk in the past that ERP systems were legacy, lacked the agility and flexibility, and did not support interoperability.2008, CIO - 15 Feb 2008 Vol. 21, No. 9, page 49:
- Because most of these HALs are legacy and only used on aging or outdated hardware, chances are that you do not have any in your lab and must be creative in procuring one from an active user.2009, Kerrie Meyler, Byron Holt, Greg Ramsey, System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 Unleashed, →ISBN:
- In practice, there are legacy or mature, domain specific, off the shelf (i.e. software that other software projects can reuse and integrate into their own products) tools that are used regularly by modeleres (e.g., for testing purposes, for communication and collaboration).2013, Management Association, Software Design and Development, →ISBN:
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Postpositional, Sometimes Belonging to a class of boardgame where permanent changes are made to game elements such as the board, cards and rules over multiple play sessions.
- Risk Legacy, in 2011, was the first game to give visibility to the idea of progressive and irreversible discovery in the board gaming hobby, 2 and it did so by applying it to the well-known game Risk.2018 September 13, Marco Arnaudo, Storytelling in the Modern Board Game: Narrative Trends from the Late 1960s to Today, McFarland, →ISBN, page 183:
- Over the course of the years that Daviau worked on Seafall, the first legacy game that was not based on a previously existing product, the mechanic became one of the hotter things in game design2019 October 8, Eric Thurm, Avidly Reads Board Games, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 118:
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- Pandemic Legacy can take weeks or even months to play given different groups' play styles.2020 August 28, Douglas Brown, Esther MacCallum-Stewart, Matthew Wilhelm Kapell, Rerolling Boardgames: Essays on Themes, Systems, Experiences and Ideologies, McFarland, →ISBN, page 25:
- The social deception game Blood on the Clocktower has recently used this mechanic to significant effect to create a legacy version of Mafia.2023 November 24, Devon Allcoat, Chris Evans, Meaningful Game Design: The Methodology and Psychology of Tabletop Games, CRC Press, →ISBN: