Trabsact Sagme Diaries

A game, when moved, usually travels with its own social context. For e.g., a game from the Trok planet, in the island of Mag, is played only by children with lemur-like and duck-like animals. Some centuries ago, the game went to a neighbor island, Dag, and, even if the rules changed a bit, the ducks and lemurs are also thrown by the Dag children. [T.Sagme, Travels]

Sagme's Diaries

With falling stones
many battles rage, but
the game is one.
[From Sagme's Haiku]

Trabsact Sagme Diaries

The abstract game's fog should be adequate to the player's myopia [T.Sagme, Proverbs]

Trabsact Sagme Diaries

Silence is gold, stillness is time [T.Sagme, Meditations]

Trabsact Sagme Diaries

Always look into the paths of defeat. [T.Sagme, Proverbs]

Trabsact Sagme Diaries

The rules of a game must be as simple as possible, not simpler. [T. Sagme, Conversations with Einstein]

Trabsact Sagme Diaries

The roads of attack and the roads of defense seldom lead to the same destiny. Games not obeying this live at the razor's edge: they can be magnificent or broken. [T.Sagme, Meditations]

Trabsact Sagme Diaries

Every action closes open doors. [T.Sagme, Meditations]

Trabsact Sagme Diaries

Sometimes we need to cross doors that may lead to defeat, just to close them behind. [T.Sagme, Meditations]

Trabsact Sagme Diaries

In the middle lies the virtue of no decision. [T.Sagme, Proverbs]

Trabsact Sagme Diaries

An attacker searches unseen paths; a defender unseen flaws. [T.Sagme, Proverbs]

Trabsact Sagme Diaries

There's art between the keeping and the releasing. When we talk about desires, this is called wisdom. When we talk about games, this is called mastery. [T.Sagme, Meditations]

Trabsact Sagme Diaries

The way to one's goal often lies in the opposite direction. [T.Sagme, Meditations]

Trabsact Sagme Diaries

Let the players be silent, Let the pieces talk. [T.Sagme, Proverbs 3,2]

Trabsact Sagme Diaries

Let complexity emerge - do not seek it out. [T.Sagme, Proverbs 2, 14].

Trabsact Sagme Diaries

Defeat may be victory, below the surface of shallow facts. [T.Sagme, Meditations]

Cost

Victory is nothing if defeat is nothing. [T.Sagme, Meditations]

Defeat

The weight of defeat is lightened by learning. [T.Sagme, Meditations]

Good4both

A bit of asymmetry is no bad thing, if it is the same for both players. [T.Sagme, Book of Parrots]

Fun first

The most important feature of a game is to be a intellectual challenge for regular humans, which brings pleasure to both. A good game continues to be fun and challenging for increasing committed players. [T.Sagme, Meditations]