37. A Theory of Fun for Game Design by Raph Koster
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Gambling Games - Are They Teaching You the Right Things?
Gambling games might be a bit different because there's money involved and there's gambling addiction involved. I'm not sure ifgames are always necessarily showing you or teaching you things about odds when we're talking about gambling games. But lots of these other skills do seem to be very common in games. And they are quite old school skills that we don't need so much teamwork we do need. If you can design a game, a good game, one that people like playing,. one that people want to come back to, but you align what you are learning in the game to something you really want in the real world then you're on to a winner.
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