… which means that games are based on reality. Well, okay, someone’s imagination of reality.
A game (computer games included) is a way to explore experience. What is it like to lead an army? Chess can answer that, to a point. A game is a kind of metaphor. It is a tool to find the ways in which complicated things can be made simple, and simple things made complex.
But people’s imaginations interfere with both their experience and their memory of reality. Continue reading