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

Okay, so today I got a fun topic. So today is all about what is a game.

So one of the things that's really important for game designers, if you're making something, you need to understand what that thing is.

So, for example, back in my stand-up comedy days when I used to do comedy, one of the things

that comedians spent a lot of time doing is trying to understand comedy.

You know, I talk to a lot of comedians, a lot of people had different theories and how they thought

humor worked.

Well, the same is issue for game design,

that if you are going to design games for a living,

perhaps you should understand what exactly it is you're designing.

Now, one of the things that's fun about this topic is,

there's no definitive answer.

I'm going to give you my take on what a game is today,

but what my take is, that's my take,

you know, and different people would have different things. And we'll discuss, there's a few games that are sort of, people discuss all the time, like, is this a game? And we'll get to some of that today. It's part of the fun.

So let me start this topic by giving a little background. So when I first moved to Wizards

of the Coast back in 1995, Richard Garfield, Magic's Creator,

had set up a folder called Kickshaw. And the point of the Kickshaw folder was so we could

discuss like high-level game things, not specifically magic or whatever, but sort of like things

like, what is a game and stuff

like that? And a lot of my game terminology that I learned came from that. Richard, like,

Richard was a big believer on creating terminology so you can discuss things. Obviously, I've carried

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