Great Games of Thought
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Series

All Games

8 games published. Each comes with the video, the full script and the list of sources and research.

  1. Season 1

  2. Across a lecture-hall table, a young red-haired man holds out his hand as he speaks; in the foreground, the back of the grey-haired man facing him

    Game 1 · 12 min 22 s ·

    Why You Crave Ramen at Midnight

    Schopenhauer×Hegel

  3. On the left, a man in old Chinese dress seated on a riverside rock; on the right, a man in a tweed jacket seated at a desk before a blackboard; the two seen side by side

    Game 2 · 13 min 44 s ·

    If AI Does All My Work, What Should I Do Next?

    Zhuangzi×Turing

  4. On the left, a curly-haired man in black resting his chin on his hand; on the right, a monk in grey robes; the two seen side by side in a room where a study and a temple hall meet

    Game 3 · 13 min 46 s ·

    Why do we always regret it after we snap?

    Spinoza×Wonhyo

  5. A study with a clock tower and university buildings beyond the window; seated together at a table, an old man with long hair in brown clothes and a man with a moustache in a black suit

    Game 4 · 13 min 20 s ·

    Why Hard Work Alone Doesn't Make You Rich

    Franklin×Keynes

    Why is it so hard to get rich even when you work hard? We look for the answer in Benjamin Franklin, who spread "time is money," and John Maynard Keynes, who said "in the long run we are all dead." The two never met — this is an animated dramatization, but their lines come from what they wrote.

  6. In a room with palace roofs and mountains through one window and a European city through the other, a king in a red dragon robe and winged cap and a man in a long curly wig sit together at a table

    Game 5 · 11 min 12 s ·

    Could Writing Speech As It Is Change the World?

    Sejong the Great×Leibniz

    If we could write down speech just as it is, would the world change? We look for the answer in Sejong the Great, who made 28 letters that write sounds, and Leibniz, who dreamed of symbols that would let us calculate thought. The two never met — this is an animated dramatization, and their lines come from what they wrote.

  7. A Western friar in a white habit and a monk in robes seated together at a wooden table by a window with a view of mountains

    Game 7 · 10 min 18 s ·

    What Gets You Through a Hard Day?

    Eckhart×Naong

    What gets you through a hard day? We look for the answer in Meister Eckhart, the German friar and Paris master who said "observe yourself, and wherever you find yourself, leave yourself," and Naong Hyegeun, the Goryeo monk who asked his listeners who it is that hears these words right now. Their paths were different, yet both pointed to the same place: here and now. The two never met — the dialogue is a dramatization reconstructed from what they wrote and said.

  8. On the field side, a red-bearded man in white clothes and a straw hat sits on a folding stool; across from him, a white-haired old man in old Japanese dress sits at a low desk in a tatami room; the two look at each other

    Game 9 · 10 min 51 s ·

    Is It Really Too Late?

    Van Gogh×Hokusai

    When you think it's too late, is it really too late? We look for the answer in Vincent van Gogh, who decided at 27 to become a painter and wrote to his brother that, having started late, he had to work twice as hard, and Katsushika Hokusai, who gave his own age as 75 and wrote that nothing he drew before 70 was worth noticing. A painter who burned hot for about ten years, and a painter who kept going doggedly for 70 years. Yet two people who never once met wrote similar lists, from grasses and trees to beasts. Short and long, fiery and cold: that was only the outward appearance. Neither of them stopped because it was late. Hokusai said his pictures before 70 were not worth noticing, and Van Gogh did not stay with what he knew how to do. The two never met; the dialogue is a dramatization reconstructed from what they wrote.

  9. Season 2

  10. A room opening onto the sea and ships on one side and an army tent camp on the other; between them, at a long wooden table with notebooks open, sit a commander in armour and a curly-haired man in a red cloak, facing each other

    Game 11 · 10 min 18 s ·

    Why Write the Same Day Twice?

    Yi Sun-sin×Aurelius

    Why did Yi Sun-sin write the same day in his diary twice? We look for an answer to what to write on a hard day in Yi Sun-sin, the Joseon commander who wrote down even his weeping, saying "I cannot write it all," and Marcus Aurelius, the Roman emperor who wrote to himself to add nothing more to what happened.