Quick gamey thoughts
Dec. 12th, 2004 01:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmazeI brought games to ET. They got played. This makes me happy.
My Trans America set is missing two cards (and is awfully worn for the amount I've played it). This makes me sad.
I got to play Age of Steam. This makes me happy.
I have this vague thought of building a game database. Along with name, publisher, author, etc., it could have specs about length, complexity (number of rules) and initial difficulty (how many rules you need to get started). Civilization would have a complexity of maybe 6 but difficulty of 3ish; by the time you've explained all the rules you're through the first three turns. 1830 would have a higher difficulty, since there's the stock/companies/trains/dividend loop. ("The goal of the game is to maximize shareholder value.") I think difficulty <= complexity.
My Trans America set is missing two cards (and is awfully worn for the amount I've played it). This makes me sad.
I got to play Age of Steam. This makes me happy.
I have this vague thought of building a game database. Along with name, publisher, author, etc., it could have specs about length, complexity (number of rules) and initial difficulty (how many rules you need to get started). Civilization would have a complexity of maybe 6 but difficulty of 3ish; by the time you've explained all the rules you're through the first three turns. 1830 would have a higher difficulty, since there's the stock/companies/trains/dividend loop. ("The goal of the game is to maximize shareholder value.") I think difficulty <= complexity.
