Playing the Game Is the Work of Learning the Algorithm

Delos wants to point out that there's also this aspect to society where things are allowed or disallowed. In the work of Sid Meyer, the game, the gamer is not simply playing this or that historical simulation. The gamer is instead learning, internalizing, and becoming intimate with a massive, multi-part global algorithm. To win means to know the system and thus to interpret a game means to interpret its algorithm.