I’ve heard of Zendo and I’ve been looking for someone to play Eleusis with for a while heh (maybe I’ll be able to get the local EA group to do it one of these days).
though insofar as they’re optimized for training rationality, they won’t be as fun as games optimized purely for being fun
Fun isn’t a generic substance. Fun is subjective. A person’s sense of fun is informed by something. If you’ve internalised the rationalist ethos, if your gut trusts your mind, if you know deeply that rationality is useful and that training it is important, a game that trains rationality is going to be a lot of fun for you.
This is something I see often during playtesting. The people who’re quickest to give up on the game tend to be the people who don’t think experimentation and hypothesising has any place in their life.
I am worried about transfer failure. I guess I need to include discussion of the themes of the game and how they apply to real world situations. Stories about wrong theories, right theories, the power of theorising, the importance of looking closely at cases that break our theories.
I need to… make sure that people can find the symmetry between the game and parts of their lives.
I’ve heard of Zendo and I’ve been looking for someone to play Eleusis with for a while heh (maybe I’ll be able to get the local EA group to do it one of these days).
Fun isn’t a generic substance. Fun is subjective. A person’s sense of fun is informed by something. If you’ve internalised the rationalist ethos, if your gut trusts your mind, if you know deeply that rationality is useful and that training it is important, a game that trains rationality is going to be a lot of fun for you.
This is something I see often during playtesting. The people who’re quickest to give up on the game tend to be the people who don’t think experimentation and hypothesising has any place in their life.
I am worried about transfer failure. I guess I need to include discussion of the themes of the game and how they apply to real world situations. Stories about wrong theories, right theories, the power of theorising, the importance of looking closely at cases that break our theories.
I need to… make sure that people can find the symmetry between the game and parts of their lives.