{"id":34,"date":"2025-04-07T00:39:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T00:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.halltennis.com\/?p=34"},"modified":"2025-04-18T04:20:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T04:20:48","slug":"game-for-idea-for-game-to-game-a-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.halltennis.com\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"Game for Idea for Game to Game a Game?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Begin forwarded message:<\/p>\n<p><strong>From: <\/strong>Halltennis@aol.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>Subject: Game for Idea for Game to Game a Game?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date: <\/strong>July 12, 1997 at 11:36:37 EDT<\/p>\n<p><strong>To: <\/strong>jimp@digitoy.com, joe@joe10.com<\/p>\n<p>Jim&#8211;<br \/>\nI think most games are as simple as this: a sequence of natural actions and<br \/>\nreactions within an environment of processes and constraints. The processes<br \/>\nand constraints are ongoing and may as well be perpetual, for all practical<br \/>\npurposes.<br \/>\nTwo parts to each.<br \/>\n1. Action:Reaction.<br \/>\n2. Action:Reaction.<br \/>\n3. Action:Reaction.<br \/>\nAnd on and on till the end&#8211;time runs out, score is achieved, whatever.<\/p>\n<p>The sport is this:<br \/>\nPlayer A: chooses Action #258, hits play, the Random Selectio Mechanism picks<br \/>\nReaction #139.<br \/>\nPlayer B: chooses Action #5, the RSM chooses Reaction #132.<br \/>\nAnd so on.<br \/>\nObviously, some Reactions are threatening. Player must hit escape button and<br \/>\ntake the painful consequences. etc. In random living you never know.<br \/>\nRandom Rambo? Random Bandom ? No. That&#8217;s too much.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t thank me, thank Peter Small, it&#8217;s his idea.<br \/>\nL&#8211;h.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Begin forwarded message: From: Halltennis@aol.com Subject: Game for Idea for Game to Game a Game? Date: July&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-email","wpcat-4-id"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.halltennis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.halltennis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.halltennis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.halltennis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.halltennis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.halltennis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293,"href":"https:\/\/www.halltennis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.halltennis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.halltennis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.halltennis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}