What's the first game you designed?
Couple of days ago a thought blazed through my mind "What was the first game I designed?". I've posted the question on GameIS - the facebook group of the Israeli game designers association, and the answers were quite surprising. Most people told of the first computer game they programmed. Some of board games, and very few told about the games they played as kids. I must admit, I was sure most will tell about their childhood games, the ones they invented or changed the rules - creating something new. And yet it was interesting enough. Games are key element in our evolving as human beings. They give us a free liberated space to do as we wish, in a set of rules that we take upon ourselves. When I remember the games that accompanied me in childhood, and I'm not talking of soccer or hide and seek, I remember the games I used to invent with my siblings in the living room. We usually made a huge castle out of the pillows available and fought each other over dominance. I sometimes recall…