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Well as many of you know my step father passed away a few weeks ago. Well my father calls me last week to say he is coming back to Florida and would like to see me after he settlement is done. I have not seen my father in 31 years.

Well today I get an email I was not expecting. I got an email from a man who appears to be my son Matthew's stepfather. Now I am in a sense following my father's footsteps were I have not seen my son since he was 2. Part of that was my choice.
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Of course, people started thinking about what was a game before Chris Crawford started working at Atari (see What is a game?).

French sociologist Roger Caillois, in his 1957 book Les jeux et les hommes (Games and Men), defined a game as an activity that is:

* fun: the activity is chosen for its light-hearted character
* separate: it is circumscribed in time and place
* uncertain: the outcome of the activity is unforeseeable
* non-productive: ...