One of the unexpected personal upsides to the pandemic has been a
discovery of tabletop games, at last recognizing them as forms of
systems design.
Of the many types of board games I've developed a particular interest in
hex-and-counter wargaming.
While mostly used to model historical battles, the format is both simple
and extensible enough that I've seen it employed for modeling encounters
as varied as pre-European conflict among Tahitian tribes all the way to
the protester-vs-police conflicts of Seattle during the WTO "Occupy"
movement. I've even seen it used in modeling non-combat encounters like
those related to supply chains and other logistics challenges.
The classic counter format is so flexible I find myself daydreaming
about using it to model peacetime activities for possible learning systems.
I have some work obligations to fulfill so this is definitely
back-burner and non-urgent, but while it was one my mind this morning it
occurs to me that given the demographic intersection of some of our
members and many fans of old-school wargaming there's a likelihood some
of our members may have already done some work in this area.
If you've ever built anything that delivers a hex-and-counter format
game, or tooling for print-and-play options for enjoying such things,
please feel free to drop me a note. I'd love to learn what you've been
working on, and see if there are ways we might share bits and pieces to
move such systems forward more easily.
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
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