Games Without Frontiers: The Game of Politics Is Ready for Its Upgrade: "But let me suggest another way to look at it. Maybe American democracy really is a game -- and maybe that's the best thing about it.
What, after all, is a game? A game is a set of rules that gives players a set of goals but also constrains their behavior in striving for those goals; it architects their behavior in an interesting and hopefully enjoyable way. A really well-designed game is 'balanced' and self-correcting. In a game of pool, for example, if you take an early lead by sinking a ton of balls, you quickly discover that -- whoops -- the game gets harder because your opponents' balls block all your shots. In MMOs like World of Warcraft, different classes of players do different things; as a result, no one class can run roughshod over all others."
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