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Quotes about complex games

[Board games are] a great way to evaluate complexity.

– Matt Calkins
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Once it is complex enough, we imagine that there’s a voice inside.

– Seth Godin
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There was a wargame I tried to learn in which you put a counter on your vehicle to indicate that the vehicle has started moving, but is not moving fully yet. And later you replace the counter with a counter that says that the vehicle is moving.

I don’t have time for that anymore.

– Marco Arnaudo
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There are three kinds of complexity. There is the actual mechanical complexity of the game. […] Then there is […] teaching complexity. […] And the third level is what I call decision complexity, the actual strategic game itself.

– Mark Herman
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My only beef is that sometimes wargamers can cop an attitude when looking at a game that doesn’t try to model activity at some insane level of detail and conclude that, because it does not, it is not a realistic game. That’s nonsense.

– Jerry Taylor
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