"Playing To Win" - Highly Interesting Article On Videogame Theory

Link. The author is a game designer named David Sirlin. I found this interesting to be highly interesting because Sirlin breaks down the differences between gaming abnormalities that make the game unfun, and ones that the player just needs to work around in order to become better and develop new strategies. I can think of plenty of times when certain things in games have become "off limits" simply because the players were not willing to use or work around them. Anyhow, just read this article if you're even remotely interested in playing videogames competitively at any level.