Playing and losing in the game of life

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Notwithstanding the amount of work I have to do as an academic, I happen to have another life on the weekends, where I am a weekend gamer.

Playing games is of course nothing new – even animals do it – and in many ways, games are important as they prepare us for the rigours of life. Perhaps the most obvious difference in the way that we play today and how we played in the past is the fact that today’s games are often played on computers or phone devices.