Games Britannia: "Dicing with Destiny"

Watching this hour long documentary by Benjamin Woolley as he spoke about games which go back to the Victorian era I found that there wasn't much differences between game then and now. Each one had it's own form of competitiveness from fun to winning, by this I mean each game had it's unique way of making the players want to win either if it's a friendly game such as 'Chest' which makes you think hard about your next choice even making you choose to sacrifice a certain piece to gain more control over the game.

I find games which know how to control the behavior of the player can have an effort on people to make them want to play the game them self which make videogame's today popular on 'YouTube'. Either tho games today are digital they still have the same effect as bored games or any other type of games which can draw the player in to want more.

Woolley spoke about the game 'Snakes and ladders' which is a well known kids game and how it changed the world on how games are played. Snakes and ladders have nothing to do with each other but some how works when put into a game which made it into many family homes and can be played by any age which games today can lake on.

I watched the episode here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00p90d8