Category Archives: Game Implementation

Discussion of how you “do gaming”.

Wargaming and Innovation part II

Posted on September 13, 2016 by

I ended part I with the slide above showing how various types of games make up the spectrum between Experimentation and Analysis. Where these games are cooperative and have players working together to solve a problem, or what in many … Continue reading →

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The Battle to Teach Wargaming

Posted on May 8, 2016 by

In a War on the Rocks piece a couple of weeks ago Dr. Jim Lacy  recounts the travails and successes of using wargaming as a teaching tool in his Marine Corps War College classes. It caused a bit of a dust up … Continue reading →

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A Wargamer, an Analyst and a Warfighter walk into a bar.

Posted on October 3, 2015 by

The MORS Special Meeting on Professional Gaming last week was quite interesting. Rex Brynan posted some great reporting at PAXSims. One of the undercurrents that flowed through the event was what some would call a misunderstanding, others something ranging from ignorance … Continue reading →

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MORS Wargaming Community of Practice Brown Bag – Fleet Battle School

Posted on September 27, 2015 by

I gave a presentation on Thursday to discuss the customization and “mod-ability” of the game.  This covered: The database editor to create new weapons and platforms, fbdata The OOB editor to create force structures, fbobe The Chart Editor to create maps, with … Continue reading →

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A2ADventure Update

Posted on August 20, 2015 by

The Game Lab at this years Connections Conference examined my “A2ADventure” game – a fairly abstract game of operational naval combat in an “Anti-Access, Area Denial” context. There was a lot of great feedback that I have attempted to incorporate … Continue reading →

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A2ADventure Playtest Report

Posted on July 23, 2015 by

The Newport RI Game Night crew held a final playtest session for this year’s Connections Conference Game Lab game, the “Anti-Access, Area Denial” themed “A2ADventure”, mentioned by Rex Brynan in his post below from July 21st. We had a group … Continue reading →

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Wargaming – Does “better” mean more Art, or more Science?

Posted on May 21, 2015 by

Dr. Perla’s paper on the recent calls for reinvigorating wargaming within DoD has generated a lot of fascinating discussion, particularly on the Simulating War Yahoo Group. (If you are not aware of Dr. Phil Sabin’s “Simulating War” group and have … Continue reading →

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