2026-07-31 · essay
Reading Homo Ludens Chapter by Chapter — The One Condition Under Which War Can Still Be Play
Try to build a competitive or PvP mode and the mood turns tense before anyone even wins. Nothing seems further from play than war — yet Huizinga says a fight that meets one condition is play. Reading log part 3: 'play and war'. The condition is recognizing your opponent as an equal — checked against the 'honor code' For Honor's players wrote for themselves.
