Home / About
Play it now before you live it later
The Long Game Project designs and runs business wargames and tabletop exercises for leadership teams, boards and conferences. We are a small studio in Melbourne.
See what we run
Australian Government
Why we exist
Most organisations treat strategy as a document: written once a year, then filed. We think strategy is the quality of thinking your team brings to its hardest moments. That gets better with practice.
We bet that how your team thinks counts for more than any single plan.
What a game does for your team
Surface the assumptions
A rehearsal shows the assumptions and disagreements your plan rests on while they are still cheap to fix.
Find the gaps
A realistic scenario shows the weak points in your plans, processes and coordination. Better to find them at a table than in a crisis.
Build the habit
Deciding under pressure is a skill. It improves with repetition, and every game is a repetition.
Align the team
People who have made hard calls together coordinate better when it is real.
Who runs your game
Our director, Dan Epstein, designs every game. He is a medical doctor with a PhD in public health on decision making and game design, and has designed more than 130 scenarios.
Who runs your tables
Facilitators with defence wargaming experience, brought in for each game. One to three in a room, depending on its size.
What they sign
Every facilitator signs our confidentiality and IP deed before they see your material. We stay responsible for their work.
The company
The Long Game Project Pty Ltd · ABN 72 663 643 641 · Melbourne, Australia
A$1M professional indemnity and A$10M public liability cover. Higher cover on request.
email@longgameproject.org · we reply within two working days
Read a real one: Before the Rising Sun
A volcanic winter, nine stakeholder tables and two hours to keep Australia fed. The scenario, every table's moves, what happened next and what players said.
Read it