It's worth playing every single game Nick Case has ever made.

Incredibly though provoking and makes you feel very different about the issues by actually involving you. I think there have been few pieces of media that emotionally impacted more than Nick's work. This is, what I feel like realizing the full potential of moderm media looks like.

Some links:

EDIT: I should have probably also mentioned the fact that the Author has made a site collecting these types of sites: http://explorabl.es/

WE BECOME WHAT WE BEHOLD – a truly shocking game about mass media: https://ncase.itch.io/wbwwb

Coming out Simulator: https://ncase.itch.io/coming-out-simulator-2014

The most famous one, Parable of the Polygons: http://ncase.me/polygons/

behold the beast! the magnificent 2d matrix!: http://ncase.me/matrix/

NEUROTIC NEURONS: http://ncase.me/neurons/

Wow, is there a genre or something for things like this? Seems like a pretty novel medium for expressing non-trivial idaes.

Yes, as mentioned these are commonly called explorables.

https://reddit.com/r/explorables http://explorabl.es http://explorables.cmucreatelab.org

His writing is pretty solid as well.

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14864183

That you for posting! Never saw the discussion on here, or knew how many awesome things nCase has created.

So cool, thank you for posting. I shared with my nephew and he loved it. Made game theory really come alive for him.

I also became a patron to the author. My first time ever doing so on Patreon. Way to go Nicky Case and please keep up these amazing programs.

Awesome game!

I'm guessing game theorists have these kind of tools, albeit more complex ones. DO you know of any of them?

I'm sure this has been studied a lot so I'm guessing there are graphs about the different rules and outcomes and such?

The animations and laughter are absolutely fantastic. They make a relatively mundane subject far more engaging.

How accurate are these simulations compared to the real world ? I understand the reasoning behind it, and it makes sense, but it strucks as an oversimplification of really complex things.

Kind of inevitable. We're trying to model complex things in a way we can understand, and that necessarily involves simplifying it until it's... simple enough. Simple usually means coarse. If your model is coarse, does that make it invalid? No, but the coarser it is, the less accurate & predictive it is across all values of the inputs.

It's rather like metaphors. A good metaphor can absolutely aid in communicating and understanding concepts. But, inevitably, if you start probing too hard on the details or take the metaphor too literally and it starts to break down.

That's really neat, thanks for the link!

Thanks for sharing this! Loved playing it.