thread: 2009-01-13 : Storming the Wizard's Tower ... in SPAAACE
On 2009-01-14, Vincent wrote:
Yeah.
How'm I going to describe this. Okay, take Dogs in the Vineyard. Dogs is color-entangled, right? Changing the color requires you to make some pretty deep changes to the rules. Very few color-hacks of Dogs ever get played, because after the initial "it's a Buffy-esque modern-day monster fighting game! Using Dogs in the Vineyard!", as soon as you start implementing, you find that you're up to your elbows in the game's philosophical underpinnings.
Hard.
Storming the Wizard's Tower, on the other hand, is not at all color-entangled. Like, I have sitting here on my hard drive my own hack of StWT to a Buffy-esque modern-day monster fighting game, with zero changes to the game's rules. Easy as changing the desktop background image on your computer, and with just as little impact on the underlying system.
I'm pretty sure these kids are simply changing the lists so that they say "magma-blaster 2 red" instead of "broadsword 2 red," which come to think of it (read the home town creation section generously) is already completely within the rules.
Matt may be doing something deeper with it, but I'm pretty sure that these kids aren't.
And if THAT doesn't satisfy you, Jesse, there's this: they've been playing the game for a semester already. Your "without bothering to" clause really doesn't apply.
