Category Archives: Design

Discussion of design issues.

CASL Lectures on Strategic Gaming – Way of the Wargamer

CASL Lectures on Strategic Gaming

We hope you enjoyour first lecture, Peter Perla’s “Way of the Wargaming”.  Information about the series is also availible on the website.

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Great review of Sabin’s latest book

PAXsims has a nice review of Phillip Sabins “Simulating War”. I have it on order.

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Game design process – time element

I received an email from a collegue asking about how long it should take to do a game design. An analysis he was involved in made a remark that a given project had take only 2 months when the “normal … Continue reading

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Connections Conference “game design event”

The idea was floated to have “game design event” of some kind at this year’s Connections conference (23-26 July at NDU link here). The idea is to take a topic of timely interest and do either a “design-off” between two … Continue reading

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Concept Development as Game Design

One of the things our NUWC game group is hoped to grow into is a different kind of concept generation, development and experimentation group. Wargames are often important venues in the CGD&E process, but we have a void right now … Continue reading

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Tabletop Analog Game Design

This is the title of a book of game related essays by Greg Costikyan and others. (There is lots of white space in the front of the pdf…). Reading the story about the newb that stuck his dagger through a … Continue reading

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“Goodbye OODA Loop…” how about “Hello Wargame”

The new Armed Forces Journal has this article which proposes to fix some of the problems with planning operations involving complex interactions using a more culturally astute Red Teaming process. COLs Benson and Rotkoff lay blame for the problem on … Continue reading

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Rand Analyses of Air Force Security Cooperation efforts

The first paper is: (hat-tips to Mike Markowitz and Chris Weuve) Summary This study looks at two Unified Endeavor Building partnerships (UEBP) seminars held in Sweden and Estonia (2009 and 2010 respectively). The UEBP series looks to get contributions from … Continue reading

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