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ARGs

• ARGs, RPGs

  KTHMA Means “Possession”

  09.01.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Roger Traviss is a classicist, a gamer, and a professor at the University of Connecticut. He is also the Demiurge that oversees what may be the first Roleplaying Course (RPC), called Operation KTHMA. Like a great Olympian Dungeon Master, he looks down from the starry heavens upon the characters created and played by his students, [...]

• ARGs, Musing, Story

  Games, Sports, and Puzzles

  07.22.09 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  I was working on a writing project recently that touched a relatively wide span of game types. While trying to make sense of this taxonomy in the context of the project at hand, I came to this idea:
  The difference between a game and a sport is whether the player is a part of the world [...]