Currently Playing

Chess: Working through classic games and trying to understand positional concepts. There's something meditative about the logic.

Crossword Puzzles: Daily ritual with coffee. Monday through Wednesday are manageable, Thursday gets tricky.

Digital Favorites

Strategy: Civilization VI, Europa Universalis IV - love the historical contexts and long-term thinking required.

Narrative: What Remains of Edith Finch, Firewatch - games that feel more like interactive literature.

Puzzle: The Witness, Baba Is You - elegant design that makes you think differently about problems.

Analog Games

• Go: Still terrible at it, but fascinated by the emergent complexity
• Scrabble: Good way to think about language and probability
• Risk: Classic for a reason, though it takes forever

Game Design Thoughts

Interested in how games create meaning through mechanics. The best games teach you something about thinking, not just about the game itself.

Also fascinated by how traditional games reflect the cultures that created them - chess as medieval warfare, Go as territorial philosophy, etc.