Your Constraint Didn't Work. Good.

One misunderstanding I regularly see around the Constraints-Led Approach is the idea that we manipulate a constraint and a particular behaviour should appear. Make the court wider → player hits wider. Change the scoring → player comes forward. Award bonus points → problem solved. But players aren’t machines. Constraints don’t prescribe solutions. They change the landscape of possibilities available to the player. And different players can respond to the same constraint differently. That’s...