Wargames have a cold war-feel to them, and are sometimes associated with cynical and military men turning the tragedy of war into a calculation. So it seems confusing that the practice of wargaming should have regained some of its popularity no, long after the cold war disappeared - but a few recent articles suggest that… Continue reading The re-emergence of wargaming
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10 questions for thinking in games (Mental Models VII)
It is fair to say that playing video games have a number of positive cognitive and attentional effects (see this metastudy of 116 different papers), but one thing that is rarely highlighted is the fact that video games in some cases offer mental models that can be applied cross domains and used to think through… Continue reading 10 questions for thinking in games (Mental Models VII)