Natural Fit (Score 1)

Role playing games like Dungeons and Dragons strike me as a unique fit for the computer. In a lot of ways, I think RPG games very much "distribute" the work that would be handled by a computer to the players. When I first put my hands on a computer, the first thing I wanted to do was program it to play role playing games. Social anxiety and the tensions that follow from it are very real problems for a lot of people, but I think there's more than that to the story. Role playing games have a set of very detailed rules that describe a complex algorithm. The interplay between the relatively rigid system of the RPG and the more free-form creativity of the players creates the thing that we enjoy, the game. It is fascinating in a lot of ways, and I think it is something that all coder's come in contact with daily.