If you have packed your stuff in boxes and moved to a new house, or packed your bags to go on vacation, chances are you have played real-life Sokoban too! Though it probably didn’t feel like a game, but tedious work. In some essential way, I was playing a variant of the Sokoban game.
If this is already starting to sound “universal” that may be because you’ve likely spent a lot of time in your life moving stuff around! For instance, when I was a kid I had to haul wood from outside our home to the wood rack by our fireplace. The trick is usually to fit them all together in a tight space. In these puzzle games, the player moves unorganized boxes from point A to point B, presumably where they *should* be. The Sokoban genre is another type of game that feels like it has existed forever. Though, that might be for another video, because today we’re talking about Sokoban! As such, tic-tac-toe must reflect some aspect of human experience and culture. We have records of people playing tic-tac-toe, or some variant, as far back as Ancient Egypt! With a history nearly as long as human culture itself, it can be easy to think of the game as innate, something that was always going to be, when, in fact: it was made by people and for people. Tic-Tac-Toe comes to mind: it’s hard to even fathom a person “inventing” tic-tac-toe: the concept seems both so universal and simple so as to elude the fact that it is human-made. There are some game concepts that feel like they have existed since time immemorial. Thinking Outside the Box with Sokoban and Baba is You
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