by Will Hindmarch | Dec 19, 2007 | RPGs, Story, Video Games
You’ve read the same kinds of opinions that I have regarding RPGs, especially D&D, versus MMORPGs. Specifically, I’m thinking about the opinions that say, “If all I wanted to do was walk a bunch of miniature figures through a dungeon, fighting...
by Jeff Tidball | Dec 19, 2007 | Musing, Story
I’ve been reading David Mamet’s book about the film industry, Bambi vs. Godzilla. In it, at one point, Mamet asserts: Now, in psychoanalysis, there is no such thing as accident, no such thing as coincidence or mere happenstance. Neither is there in...
by Will Hindmarch | Nov 11, 2007 | Board Games, MMOs, Musing, RPGs, Story, Video Games, Will's Thesis, Writing
This is the start of something. This something began with “Storytelling Games as a Creative Medium,” an essay that first appeared in Second Person: Roleplaying and Story in Games and Playable Media. (If I had it to do again, I’d change that title.)...
by Jeff Tidball | Nov 11, 2007 | Board Games, card games, Musing, RPGs, Story, Video Games
It’s a new thing, Gameplaywright, and it’s about games, and it’s about stories. It makes sense to start this new thing with a statement for the record — I’m not sure I’ve ever done this — about what I think a game is, and what I think a...
