I'm pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for their drive to work.

Okay, today's topic, making losing fun.

This was a request for my blog.

So, obviously, winning is fun. People like to win.

But especially with the fact that a lot of magic games have more than two people.

The majority of people playing magic don't win. They lose. So it's important. Part of one of the things about game design, there's a lot of ways to sort of talk about the roles of game design.

But one of them that I always liked is good game design is making losing fun, right? That you want the experience of

playing the game to be fun regardless of the outcome of the game. Yes, it is fun to win the game.

And obviously you want to set up your game so people have a chance to win and we'll walk through that today.

But one of the key elements of good game design is making sure that the game, regardless of the

outcome of the game, is memorable and fun for the people playing it.

So today, I'm going to walk you through six principles of how to

make losing fun. That's what we're doing today. Okay, number one, let the

people play. So early magic definitely played around with just exploring the

space that is magic.

And there are three strategies in particular that were very frustrating for most players.

That is land destruction, what we called permission, and card denial or hand denial.

Discard.

Okay, so when magic first came out,

let's start with land destruction, the most evil

of them. When magic first came

out, there were a lot of very aggressive land instruction

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