Rob Martin

Complexity and its relationship to Depth is one of the things I see people misunderstand most often. A thread.

Complexity is the rules that you have to learn before you can play. Depth is the difficulty of the strategic decision-making, or the amount of skill you need to master a game.

Complexity can increase Depth, but not always. Tic-Tac-Toe has low complexity and depth, but consider a rule like this: “When you draw an ‘O’ directly below an ‘X’ in the left column, you must exclaim ‘UNO’” Added complexity, no additional depth.