Games are an important tool for many things. They provide a space for entertainment, creativity, and learning. Most importantly, games are a vehicle for the exercise of mastery. For competitive games this is especially true. We’ve all started from somewhere; and if our games of choice mean …
Offense and Defense
Every game under the umbrella of decision-making contest has a component of one player or team being on offense and the other being on defense. Usually that correlates with the capacity to score a point. In most sports the you can only score while your team possesses the ball. Here, …
The Essence of Strategy
One of my favorite things to do is to watch sports and games that I know nothing about. I do this because I believe that there are principal values that tie all games together and that by understanding these values we can more rapidly come to understand, spectate, and even design …
