I intend to use this blog to discuss the theory of games. That is the theory that explains how to make games, how to judge games and how to better play games.
This is of course hardly an undiscussed topic, many other blogs exist that discuss such things. However I beleive that the vast majority of these blogs in failing to discuss the essentials of gaming often fall short of covering the theory of games properly. Also many of the authors of these blogs have rather incomplete theories which often miss quite critical points.
I plan to discuss many of the more important of the theories of games from the roots up, eventually covering every important issue in the most logical order I can think of.
As much of this is stuff that will be appearing in an upcoming book, it might not be entirely complete for now. Indeed another reason I have this blog is to serve as a sort of public draft / preview of that upcoming book, while at the same time helping to get those interested in games thinking about important issues while they are waiting for the book.
I will attempt to provide ample examples where fitting, and also case studies which I think are interesting when I consider such to warranted.
But the main purpose of this blog is discuss the theory of games as I have said. Hopefully you find this useful for that reason and I hope you stay tuned…
