Personal strategy inspiration from two mobile games 🎮
Video games are a powerful medium for learning and not only for entertainment. My professional journey is entangled with the inspiration and skills that I constantly got from many types of games: strategy games, adventure games, racing games, simulators, serious games, board games, co-op games and more.
What I enjoy the most while playing a new game is discovering the new perspectives that it brings and also making connections to things that I have on my Radar in that particular period.
I want to share with you today a glimpse of this gaming world by highlighting two mobile games that are free to play and that you can try when you have 10-15 minutes to spare.
Silly Sailing
Imagine that you actually practice navigating in an uncertain context: adjusting sails to reach checkpoints, based on the sea currents, the wind’s direction, wind speed, your type of boat, other boats and obstacles on the way.
Even if you spend only a couple of minutes playing this game, you immediately feel how you constantly need to adjust your way forward, given how the environment changes and what you’re able to do with your boat.
And if you reflect a bit on the experience, you might transfer this feeling and insight to how you adjust your personal strategy in some uncertain contexts that you are currently navigating.
Here’s a short video showing the gameplay of Silly Sailing:
Hero Among Us
Imagine that you create your own super hero, define where in the globe to start taking action and then see how the world reacts to your actions and decisions.
One of the key messages that you can feel while playing this game is how identity shapes strategy, which shapes identity. Who you are in the game determines how you’ll approach the game, which will determine how you will evolve and repeat.
If you just want to taste the gameplay a bit, here’s a short video where you can see how you choose a type of hero, then choose a country, a crisis to tackle and how the game continues from there.
Your turn: What’s the last game that inspired you on your personal journey?
Enjoy the ride,
Bülent
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