5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel – A beautiful look at the limits of the human mind

Feature by Harvard L.

This is an unexpected opportunity to delve into a backburner project of mine which I never thought was going to come to light. A few months ago I was having fun with 51 Classic Games for Nintendo Switch (which I’m just going to call Clubhouse Games from now on) and I found it incredibly interesting how each game effectively attained its “classic” status by implementing design principles in a unique way. I was going to do a ludology analysis of each of these games, thinking of ways to improve the bad ones (I had already designed a “fixed” version of War) and discussing why regardless of how good or bad the game really is, there is some lasting cultural relevance which helped the game endure through time.

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