Comment by Waterluvian
7 days ago
I love this concept of taking a game, making one rule change, and suddenly the game has a whole new feeling to it.
This may be old news for some but I just discovered this rule that makes tic tac toe incredibly fun to play with my kids: only the last three moves of each player stay on the board.
I’ve heard that one of the ways to writing good science fiction is to take the world as it is now, and imagine what would happen if you changed just one thing. This feels like a good rule in general to iterate on things in the real world that have been known to work or be fun, etc.
I think that’s one reason The Expanse is a compelling series. It’s largely the same everything except “what if we could generate propulsion without the need of massive volumes of fuel?”
I think Fallout is also similar: “what if the transistor wasn’t invented until much later?”
You might be interested in 960 chess a.k.a Fischer random a.k.a. freestyle chess. There is a weekly tournament on Fridays at chess.com if you want an intro.