About Constant Sum Games

ConstantSUM Games will soon be bringing cutting-edge strategy and tactical games to the Internet. Our titles will be massively multiplayer enabled, allowing you to engage in combat with thousands of other online players. Our goal is to deliver the very best in realtime strategy and tactical based games. If this sounds interesting to you, then please sign up for our beta program.

Constant-sum games are games of total conflict and are otherwise known as games of pure competition. The extent to which the goals of the players coincide or conflict is the basis for classifying games. Poker, for example, is a constant-sum game because the combined wealth of the players remains constant, although its distribution shifts in the course of play. In a constant sum game, the sum of all players' payoffs is the same for any outcome. Hence, a gain for one participant is always at the expense of another. Most sporting events would fall in this category. Given the conflicting interests, the equilibrium of such games is often in mixed strategies. Since payoffs can always be normalized, constant sum games may be represented as (and are equivalent to) a zero sum game in which the sum of all players' payoffs is always zero.