Welcome to Riskgaming by Lux Capital

Danny CrichtonOct 20, 2026

Playing *Gray Matter*, a Riskgaming scenario on the future of biotech and epistemics. Photo by Travis Carr.

Here’s the scoop

I’m Danny Crichton, and along with Laurence Pevsner, thank you for subscribing to Riskgaming by Lux Capital. We write about game design and complex policy tradeoffs on this blog, and also post our upcoming public Riskgaming events. If you want to join us for a private in-person Riskgaming runthrough, sign up online and we will do our best to make it happen.

Recent Riskgaming Scenarios

Policymakers play *Dead Reckoning*, a game on European space sovereignty, at Chatham House’s annual defense forum in London February 2026. Photo by Chatham House.

Experimental Automata: A Global Investigation of the Future of Digital Health and Biotechnology — a salon experience for 60 that educates on the progress coming in human wellness and agriculture.
No Man’s Land: The AI Singularity and the Future of American National Security — the most in-depth full-immersion game we’ve ever made. This game takes eight players through the challenging tradeoffs of balancing commercial and defense security in the AI industry alongside a zany storyline that has now come to fruition in the real world.
Southwest Silicon: Water, Semiconductors and the Future of American Economic Security — a full-immersion game that simulates the strict tradeoffs facing water-parched homeowners, farmers and the emerging chip fab industry in Arizona’s Phoenix Valley.

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