Choose Your Own Adventure: UFO 54-40 #shorts
Channel: Rym DeCoster
Date: 2023-04-08

Excerpted from "The History of Losing" presented at PAX Australia 2014 by Rym DeCoster (GeekNights):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCu9IHyyS2s

Winning is good, and losing is bad. We strive to win, and this is the basis for most of the games we play. Challenges are binary: we either overcome them, advancing the story, or fail, and must try again. But, what if we were to toss this conventional wisdom aside? Do we really only have fun when we win? Have you ever had that moment in a game where epic and total failure was the most memorable part? What kinds of games would arise if we strove to make losing, instead of winning, the point?

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