Once it is complex enough, we imagine that there’s a voice inside.
Quotes about complex games
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.
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.
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.
One thing I’ve learned as a designer is that it’s a lot easier to design a game with twenty pages of rules than a game with one page of rules.
