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Game designer of Money Block, a crypto and blockchain game, explains how to build a game from scratch. He says uncertainty is the most attractive from a gamer perspective: uncertainty, optimization, creative writing and fictional worlds. Game theory is an important field of applied mathematics and applied mathematics also important in game theory. The more you play the game, the more you will find out the optimal way to succeed (remember the loop in the movie Edge of Tomorrow) The player's emotional investment comes literally from its "homework"