There are at least two kinds of games. One could be called finite, the other, infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.
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Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.
A game is defined by the players' strategy domains and payoff functions.
The finite play for life is serious; the infinite play of life is joyous.
The basic idea of Games With a Purpose is that we are taking a problem that computers cannot yet solve, and we are getting people to solve it for us while they are playing a game.
I jokingly call this convergence of games into reality the 'Gamepocalypse:' the moment when every moment of life is actually a game.
Game theory is a branch of, originally, applied mathematics, used mostly in economics and political science, a little bit in biology, that gives us a mathematical taxonomy of social life, and it predicts what people are likely to do and believe others will do in cases where everyone's actions affect everyone else.
The kinds of games I'm most interested in are narrative games.
A game is not won until it is lost.
One of the main things that's appealing about games is that you know a game can be won. It's an unusual game that's impossible to win.
Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
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