The paper https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1296
> at the relatively mild cost that such applications now have security that is "game-based" instead of "simulation-based."
Quite interesting and mysterious. What is a game but a kind of simulation with two or more potentially competing "physics engines" involved? What is a simulation but a game, where exactly one player happens to be called "The Environment"? If these aren't two ways of looking at the same thing, what's this about a relatively mild cost?
Also, they have nothing to do with “video games” or physical simulations therein.