Monday, October 29, 2018

Notes on simultaneous-move games with continuous strategies

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My recent posts on game theory have focused on games with discrete strategies, which is to say that players are faced with a finite number ...
Monday, October 22, 2018

European board games before Catan

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Game designer Rob Newton asked on Twitter what people would consider "classic literature of the board game world." Fellow design...
Monday, October 15, 2018

Notes on games with mixed strategies

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In an earlier post regarding theory of simultaneous move games , I concluded with an example of a game between two tennis players that d...
Monday, October 8, 2018

Spies vs spies: First impression of Cold Warrior

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I have long felt that the Cold War represents a rich thematic opportunity for board games. Yet I can identify only a handful of games set ...
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Monday, October 1, 2018

Quick draw: First impression of Death Pit Duels

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In the world of head-to-head two-player battle card games, I'd be hard pressed to name a more distilled, purified entry than Death Pit...
Monday, September 24, 2018

Notes on simultaneous-move games, and an exploration of the Stag Hunt

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Some time ago, the design team of Dr. Wictz and I started discussing the book Games of Strategy  by Dixit, Skeath, and Riley.  I wrote on ...
Monday, September 17, 2018

Magnificent feedback

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Playtesting is crucial to any successful design, but the tricky part has often been which feedback to accept and which to ignore. Keith Fe...
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Monday, September 10, 2018

Bidding and game theory

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I have been thinking about the game theory construct for the share auction in Chicago Express (designer Harry Wu, publisher Queen ). The q...