Games, Strategy & Play · Strategy & Wargaming
A topic within Strategy & Wargaming, itself one of 8 topics in that field and part of Games, Strategy & Play.
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Sid Meier (GDC Festival of Gaming)
Argues that players systematically misjudge probability and attribute outcomes to themselves rather than chance, so a well-designed game must account for how the player misreads it.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Sid Meier (GDC Festival of Gaming)
Argues that a game is a series of interesting decisions, and that a decision is only interesting when the options are genuinely balanced and the player can reason about the trade-off.
link checked 17 Sept 2026