Re: Thoughts on Alterra?

[Duane Morin <dmorin@tiac.net>]

> I took a look at it. It looks relatively complex...in my experience,
> balancing complexity like that (so the game is fair and fun) is difficult.

Perhaps a really abstracted version, with only 3-5 variables?  That's often 
enough to demonstrate the complexity of a dynamic system.  I remember 
economics classes and the "guns or butter" argument (along with the Chris 
Crawford game of the same name).

There's always room for the more in depth version.  But it seems like folks 
are often interested in not losing the more advanced students (or the less 
advanced).  So maybe the class gets to play the abstract version, and the 
advanced students take on the more complex one?

Duane