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A game of games
Having finished reading George R. R. Martin’s “A Game of Thrones” (finally!) I started thinking about all the many many people who are spending vast amounts of time reading just this one series of fantasy novels — let alone all of the time that been collectively spent reading fiction by Stephen King, Georges Simenon, J.K. Rowling and Harold Robbins — or Leo Tolstoy for that matter.
And I fine myself wondering, why is there so much worry about people spending hours and hours playing computer games?
After all, both activities are pleasurable immersions into fictional worlds. What makes one sort of escapist activity inherently more valid than the other?
Games that generate stories
Today my buddy Athomas and I had been discussing a favorite subject of ours — the reality that conventional games this kind of as Monopoly and chess generate a dramatic structure that is like a linear narrative (but is not a linear narrative) by way of their well constructed rules of game play. The organic progression from early play to mid-game to final battle comes totally out of the properly-crafted “physics” of the game, not through post-facto act of imposed coercion and narrowing of player alternatives (as in some laptop or computer games).
I raised the question of no matter whether a single could target a distinct properly-understood genre of narrative, such as the hero’s journey, or the romantic comedy (genres that have a quite clear and definitive structure, properly understood by authors and intuitively recognized by audiences), and produce a game that invokes in its players an equivalent emotional arc and meta-narrative.
It would be particularly cool if this could be carried out with no computers — merely by way of this kind of fairly conventional implies as moving pieces on a physical board, rolling dice and the choosing of possibility cards.
Far more to comply with.
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