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 14 Jul 2009, 15:49
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  Group: Project Leader Posts: 5870 Joined: 2 June 2009 Member No.: 10  |
Little Wars
He basically picked up the idea of the 'Kriegsspiel', a bone-dry tactical war simulator of the Prussian army from the early 1800s that makes today's Arma2 look like a casual game on the Wii in terms of complexity, simplified the rules to gear it more towards fun rather than realism (See? Even HE already knew that fun > realism) and added a bit of a roleplaying aspect as well. Basically, this man invented tabletop RPGs and strategy games for entertainment purposes in 1913. So not only did have an awesome moustache and write more novels and essays than the average humanoid will ever read in his lifetime, including two of most important science fiction stories ever (period), he was basically the first modern gamedesigner. Respect, good sir, respect! |
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14 Jul 2009, 17:42
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 I AM ESCALATION!  Group: Badass Posts: 463 Joined: 31 May 2009 From: Germany Member No.: 9 Projects: SWR Tester |
Did not knew that...funny fact.
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14 Jul 2009, 19:39
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 Officer of the European Continental Army  Group: Members Posts: 2351 Joined: 7 June 2009 From: England, Great Britain Member No.: 71 Community Manager at Nexus Mods |
That's interesting
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15 Jul 2009, 23:11
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  Group: Dev. Team Posts: 838 Joined: 7 June 2009 From: Southeastern USA Member No.: 47 |
Wow...that is a really cool fact.
-------------------- "No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."-- George S. Patton
 Resquiescat in pace, CommanderJB 1991-2009 |
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17 Jul 2009, 15:39
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 Gamer Girl  Group: Legend Posts: 3808 Joined: 19 June 2009 From: Disboard Member No.: 182 Friendly Freelancer |
I agree, interesting person. Well done finding out.
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