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Going to War: Creating Computer War Games Jason Darby
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As an ambitious new exhibition War Games opens at the V&A Museum of Childhood in London, its curators Sarah Wood and Ieuan Hopkins explain why they wanted to tackle this troubling subject, and reveal that the toy industry is certainly not run by 'funny men in pink houses' How and why did Their archive contains models of enemy and allied tanks and aircraft and photographs taken for the Ministry of Information for the making of realistic scale models. Myths and legends are some of the oldest forms of this . I'm obsessing again and my mind is going back in time trying to change past conversations. MC02 was You might have thought that because in the military most everyone's freedom and lives are on the line, the military at least would try hard to create realistic estimates of the outcomes of their policies. Creating a replica of bin Laden's compound and practicing and simulating different scenarios is the practice of war gaming. This one is when Lisa starting viewing me as an obstacle. The exercise … cost $250 million, involved both live exercises and computer simulations. Millennium Challenge 2002 (MC02) was a major war game exercise conducted by the United States armed forces in mid-2002, likely the largest such exercise in history. Despite continual gloomy proclamations by some individuals in the games industry, strategy gaming on the PC appears to be in rude health in 2013, including that traditionally most niche of genres: the historical grand strategy title. So the idea we're introducing is that you're going to get sucked into a war when you're not quite ready, which will hopefully add a challenge factor for players and make the late game more interesting for them. As I said above, meaning-making and the construction of understandings of war are traditionally narrative in nature, or at least narratives of various kinds make up a great deal of what there is. One aspect of that evolution has been an increase in opportunities to support our clients' strategic decision making process. I have always believed that, if done right, a war game exercise can be a great tool for decision support and team building. Lisa stands by the refrigerator - in less than four weeks, cancer will have won its battle – she is starting to binge on unhealthy . Trying to look in the past and wish I would have said something different is like a computer trying to win a game of global thermonuclear war. As wargames shifted from the tabletop to the computer, the variables and scenarios increased in both number and complexity, and simulations could be run at high speeds. My mind takes me to the kitchen.