Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Games are about limitations

"We forget that games are about limitations. Limitations are what really makes games. Take the game of chess -possibly the greatest game of all. You're on this stupid board and you've got 64 squares, you can't move off the board, and the pieces only move in certain, really horrible ways that are totally stifling to your creativity. Yet, here is this incredibly rich game."

Eugene Jarvis
September 1996
Edge 36

1 comment:

Xanday said...

Con el tiempo, y el avance de la tecnología (que era la que limitaba los juegos) se ve claramente que ésto no es tan cierto.

Cosa que ya sabíamos hace mucho tiempo los jugadores de Go (mucho más flexible que el ajedrez y mucho mejor juego ;)