Survivor and game design theory

Wired has a neat article about how Survivor is a well-designed videogame played with living characters and a real world environment:

“Nobody talks about it on this level, but that’s what I do,” said Burnett, nattily dressed in a tieless pinstriped suit. I met him at Trump International Hotel when he came through town to talk about Gold Rush.

While tweaking Survivor, he closely studied John Nash’s game theory in order to better engineer the hysteria and emotional blowouts of each season’s finale.

The 13th season of Survivor debuts on September 14.

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