Joshua Kovan

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Joshua Kovan

@KovanJoshua

Wargame designer | My opinions are my own

London, England Katılım Haziran 2021

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Rex Brynen@RexBrynen·19 Mar

Some reflections on the growing challenge posed by the US to NATO and liberal democracy. I’m not confident that policymakers will adequately consider all of the risks and contingencies—but perhaps professional (war)gamers can help address that deficiency. paxsims.wordpress.com/2025/03/17/ame…

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King's Wargaming@kclwargaming·24 Şub

King's MA or PhD student? The King's Wargaming Network is recruiting King's students for its annual Analyst Training for Analytic Wargaming Programme. Future details in the attached link. forms.office.com/Pages/Response…

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King's Wargaming@kclwargaming·11 Şub

🚨 King's Wargaming Week 2025 @warstudies Pleased to invite you to join us for highlighting research and design in support of 'Wargaming the Future'. 📅 May 27 thru May 29 📍King's Stand Campus 📰 Sign up link below, additional details to follow. eventbrite.co.uk/e/kings-wargam…

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Joshua Kovan@KovanJoshua·10 Oca

@RooksAndKingz @NearPeerSim @unreservist Happy to help if you’d like

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Joshua Kovan@KovanJoshua·9 Oca

@Clint_Davey1 Then this talk at Connections Oz by @EM_DAlessandro and I might interest you kriegspiel.com.au/connections/20…

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Clint Warren-Davey@Clint_Davey1·9 Oca

My favourite genre of writing is board game designers notes.

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Joshua Kovan@KovanJoshua·6 Oca

@JimDaws93102644 I didn’t know how badly I needed this in my life 😂

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Jim Dawson@JimDaws93102644·6 Oca

Had a little look at making a flow-chart for Defence Procurement...

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Joshua Kovan@KovanJoshua·4 Oca

Hearts and minds isn’t going so well

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Thomas Danger@Thomas_DangerRI·19 Ara

Go check out the last podcast of the Archipelago of Design! Me and Donna Dupont discuss various issues regarding wargaming. Many of them on the new generation of wargamers, how to build a Wargaming program when you are a small country, and much more! linkedin.com/posts/aodnetwo…

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Joshua Kovan@KovanJoshua·21 Kas

If you missed our talk live you can now watch the recording at the link below!

Evan D'Alessandro@EM_DAlessandro

@KovanJoshua and I did a presentation at Connections Oz on Designing for Validity. Shortly: designing for validity is not about designing for validity, but writing the design so it can be validated. For the long version of that watch the presentation here: kriegspiel.com.au/connections/20…

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Joshua Kovan@KovanJoshua·9 Kas

@EM_DAlessandro Looking forward to running it once it’s published!

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Evan D'Alessandro@EM_DAlessandro·7 Kas

Didn’t get a photo of me speaking, but I got to give an “Intro to Wargaming” lecture for the Crisis Sim at King’s and then do an introductory game. I always find it interesting how first time players think about games and hopefully my research should get some conclusions on that.

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Joshua Kovan@KovanJoshua·7 Kas

@SebastianBae @GUWargaming

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Sebastian Bae@SebastianBae·7 Kas

@KovanJoshua It feels very full circle when you have returned to @GUWargaming 😆

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Joshua Kovan@KovanJoshua·7 Kas

Had a great time playing the aliens in a brilliant first contact matrix game! A great way to approach a very different topic

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Joshua Kovan@KovanJoshua·6 Kas

Day one of @ArmyMadSci Game On!

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Joshua Kovan@KovanJoshua·5 Kas

About to present at Connections OZ with @EM_DAlessandro on the methodology of professional wargames vs their commercial counterparts

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Joshua Kovan@KovanJoshua·18 Eki

The 2.0 of Iron Triangle is finally done! Now I just need to write the setup down…for each board… 😅

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Evan D'Alessandro@EM_DAlessandro·9 Eki

I'll be presenting on design notes in wargames along with @Thomas_DangerRI (and covering for @KovanJoshua who can't make it now) on the 19th. This is (for me at least) going to be a more focused version of the talk I gave at Connections with Josh and Sophia.

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Joshua Kovan@KovanJoshua·2 Eki

@EM_DAlessandro @akochowi @beyondsolitaire I’d be happy to speak on that

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Evan D'Alessandro@EM_DAlessandro·2 Eki

@akochowi @beyondsolitaire If you think it would be useful for them I could talk to immersion, sourcing in game design (@KovanJoshua would be better than me on that though), and/or designing in general?

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Alastair Kocho-Williams@akochowi·2 Eki

Excited that @beyondsolitaire will be joining my wargaming class as a guest speaker tomorrow! Owing to scheduling issues I still have some open spots to fill with guest speakers if anyone wants to zoom in and speak with my class of eager students.

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Joshua Kovan@KovanJoshua·22 Eyl

@ADragoons @gzBlitz @Thomas_DangerRI @torylynn @wetlir @Farsol4 @drwictz @bboyer66 @HeavyCardboard @GStrategerist @BlackOakWShop @pz_div_games @worth2004 @thecommandtent @GamingTrend @KKriegeBlog @compassgamesllc I’d love to but I’ll be traveling at that time!

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The Armchair Dragoons@ADragoons·19 Eyl

Longer shots, but maybe we get– @gzBlitz ? @Thomas_DangerRI ? @torylynn ? @wetlir ? @farsol4 ? @drwictz ? @bboyer66 ? @heavycardboard ? @GStrategerist ? @BlackOakWShop ? @pz_div_games ? @worth2004 ? @thecommandtent ? @GamingTrend ? @KovanJoshua ? @KKriegeBlog ? @compassgamesllc ?

The Armchair Dragoons@ADragoons

Who is coming to join us at the 2024 Fall Assembly in October? tinyurl.com/ACD2024FA

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Joshua Kovan@KovanJoshua·20 Eyl

This is the future of professional wargaming. Transparent models that improve validity and even enable peer review!

Evan D'Alessandro@EM_DAlessandro

This is the sort of feedback that I really enjoy! Even if my model is wrong, you will know why it's wrong and why you disagree with it. Footnoting everything also means that when I look at the part of the design much later, I know why I did something and were I got the data from.

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Joshua Kovan@KovanJoshua·18 Eyl

@JimDaws93102644 Been talking with @EM_DAlessandro about games being cognitively similar to PSYOPs. Still working out the theory but I see a direct correlation between play and schema development. If this affects professional wargames we may have an ethical issue to solve as a community!

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Jim Dawson@JimDaws93102644·17 Eyl

Since the subject of game ethics has come up, it would be remiss of me not to mention a link sent to me by the USAWC: youtube.com/playlist?list=…

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@warstudies @NearPeerSim @unreservist @Clint_Davey1 @EM_DAlessandro @JimDaws93102644 @SebastianBae @GUWargaming