Designing Wargames – Introduction by George Phillies

Designing Wargames introduces the play and design of classic hex-and-counter board wargames. Written as a textbook, Designing Wargames speaks to board and computer game designers, board game players, and designers of serious war games for historical and military study. George Phillies is a Professor in the WPI Program in Interactive Media and Game Dvelopment, with lectures visible on YouTube.

Designing Wargames introduces the play and design of classic hex-and-counter board wargames. Written as a textbook, Designing Wargames should appeal to board and computer game designers, board game players, and designers of serious war games for historical and military study.



Phillies opens with a discussion of the basic elements combined to create strategic games, including representation, theme, style, mechanisms, voice, shape, and content. To introduce non-players to board wargames, he describes in detail the play of four classic board wargames, namely Stalingrad, 1914, Panzerblitz, and Fall of Manjukuo. A path to designing a game, stressing the central importance of iterative development and playtesting, is advanced. Several fundamental mechanisms and their variations, including the zone of control and command and control rules, are examined in detail. A case study contrasts a half-dozen games on a single historic campaign, comparing how different designers have created radically different games that represent the same historic outcomes. A paragraph by paragraph analysis of the written rules of one game is given. Issues related to luck and technology are examined. An extensive set of homework problems, many in the form of development projects, support the material in the text.



George Phillies is a Professor in the WPI Program in Interactive Media and Game Dvelopment. Phillies' lectures on the material in the text may be seen on YouTube on the GeorgePhillies channel.

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About George Phillies

George Phillies is a Professor of Physics at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is also a member of the interdisciplinary Associated Biochemistry Faculty and the interdisciplinary Associated Interactive Media and Game Development Faculty, and has taught in all three areas. His scientific research is focused on polymer dynamics. Books by George Phillies include:



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Designing Board Wargames - Introduction



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Designing Modern Strategy Games by George Phillies

"Designing Modern Strategy Games" is the definitive textbook on game design. It offers rules descriptions, a synoptic analysis of design elements, recommendations of great game designers, more than 100 design projects, and an inspiring essay by Greg Costikyan. This, the second edition of Phillies and Vasel's 2006 text, includes three course plans from Phillies' college-level game design course.

"Designing Modern Strategy Games" is the definitive book on the design of modern strategy games. "Designing Modern Strategy Games" can also be used as a textbook; it includes more than 100 game design projects. For instructors, an Appendix includes the day-by-day course plans for three offerings of author Phillies' precedent-breaking university course "Design of Tabletop Board Wargames".



Phillies and Vasel's book, the second edition of Phillies and Vasel's 2006 text, opens with an inspiring essay by Greg Costikyan. It proceeds through a synoptic analysis of game design elements, recommendations of great game designers, and detailed analyses of rules of over a hundred games of strategy.

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About George Phillies

George Phillies is a Professor of Physics at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is also a member of the interdisciplinary Associated Biochemistry Faculty and the interdisciplinary Associated Interactive Media and Game Development Faculty, and has taught in all three areas. His scientific research is focused on polymer dynamics. Books by George Phillies include:



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This Shining Sea

Nine Gees

The Minutegirls

The One World

Mistress of the Waves



Books on Game Design Series

Contemporary Perspectives in Game Design(with Tom Vasel)

Design Elements of Contemporary Strategy Games(with Tom Vasel)

Stalingrad for Beginners - How to Play

Stalingrad for Beginners - Basic Tactics

Designing Board Wargames - Introduction



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Funding Liberty

Libertarian Renaissance



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Elementary Lectures in Statistical Mechanics

Phenomenology of Polymer Solution Dynamics

Complete Tables for ‘Phenomenology of Polymer Solution Dynamics’

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1.6 Important Terminology Notes

1.7 References



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2.4 References



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3.3 Media Selection and Control

3.4 Media Streams Example

3.5 Local Media Runnable Code Example



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4.1 The Role of Signaling

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4.3 Signaling Protocols

4.4 Summary of Signaling Choices

4.5 Signaling Channel Runnable Code Example

4.6 References



5 Peer-to-Peer Media

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5.4 TURN Servers

5.5 Candidates



6 Peer Connection and Offer/Answer Negotiation

6.1 Peer Connections

6.2 Offer/Answer Negotiation

6.3 JavaScript Offer/Answer Control

6.4 Runnable Code Example: Peer Connection and Offer/Answer Negotiation



7 Data Channel

7.1 Introduction to the Data Channel

7.2 Using Data Channels

7.3 Data Channel Runnable Code Example



8 W3C Documents

8.1 WebRTC API Reference

8.2 WEBRTC Recommendations

8.3 WEBRTC Drafts

8.4 Related Work

8.5 References



9 NAT and Firewall Traversal

9.1 Introduction to Hole Punching

9.3 WebRTC and Firewalls

9.3.1 WebRTC Firewall Traversal

9.4 References



10 Protocols

10.1 Protocols

10.2 WebRTC Protocol Overview

10.3 References



11 IETF Documents

11.1 Request For Comments

11.2 Internet-Drafts

11.3 RTCWEB Working Group Internet-Drafts

11.4 Individual Internet-Drafts

11.5 RTCWEB Documents in Other Working Groups

11.6 References



12 IETF Related RFC Documents

12.1 Real-time Transport Protocol

12.2 Session Description Protocol

12.3 NAT Traversal RFCs

12.4 Codecs

12.5 Signaling

12.6 References



13 Security and Privacy

13.1 Browser Security Model

13.2 New WebRTC Browser Attacks

13.3 Communication Security

13.4 Identity in WebRTC

13.5 Enterprise Issues

13.6 Privacy

13.7 ZRTP over Data Channel

13.8 Summary

13.9 References



14 Implementations and Uses

14.1 Browsers

14.2 Other Use Cases

14.3 STUN and TURN Server Implementations

14.4 References



INDEX



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