Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Competition without Conflict (30 Nov 2005) Our good old board games are based on military themes (Risk, Stratego, Battleship, Chess). But new games, says David Fristrom, are as likely to be inspired by pizza construction or potato farming, attracting new players who are turned off by direct conflict as they are interested in the social aspects of games and their intellectual challenges. David Fristrom asks: "Is it possible to have a good game without conflict between players? Article URL: http://tekka.net/09/?competition Read 66 more articles from Tekka sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Galleries: The Hardest Working Page on Your Site          Books about Usability | Information Architecture | Information Visualisation | Technology History This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy