Life Is a Game: What Game Design Says about the Human Condition

What if life is a game? Are you winning? Have you even decided what 'winning' is?

Game design could be defined in many ways, but here the term is used to denote the practice of creating choices. Designing a game, in this sense, involves crafting limits, rewards, incentives, and risks in such a way that the person who interacts with the game – the player – makes choices that have consequences.

Edward Castronova urges readers to think about the fundamentals of the human condition and compare th...