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

Okay. Today is the third part in this series called 10 Things Every Game Needs.

So in this mega series, what I'm doing is I'm starting with a speech slash article slash podcast that I wrote talking about a basic 101 for game design

and now I'm going thing by thing talking in depth on it for a full podcast. So the first one I talked

about how you need a rule or how you need a goal or goals. The second podcast I talked about how you need

rules.

Today is number three, interaction.

So why does a game need interaction?

Okay, there are five reasons that I have.

So they walk through my five reasons.

So the first reason is social.

So game playing, most game playing, outside of Solitaire, where you're playing by yourself,

most game playing involves other people, especially when you're talking about board and card games

in which there's actual face-to-face interaction. I mean, video games also have interaction, and

especially now there's more and more ways to play with people online, which is its own form of interaction, obviously.

But a lot of game playing, I mean, one thing to remember when you're playing a game is that there's different things that you're trying to get out of the game.

One thing you're trying to get out of the game is intellectual.

You know, you're trying to test yourself, and there's a thing you're trying to get out of the game is intellectual. You know, you're trying to test yourself,

and there's a lot of important skills there.

And we'll get to that and some of the other things.

But another very important thing is that you are trying to be social.

That games inherently are social activities.

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