thread: 2011-07-05 : The Iridium Plateau
On 2011-07-06, Damian wrote:
Some time ago, I (informally) classified hacks in three categories:
1. Reskinning (when you just change some shallow things, the color, aesthetics and you add, modify or subtract few not too important aspects of the game)
2. Adaptation (you like the game as is and you think it fits whatever genre, setting, movie or whatever you want to play with, so you keep the core of the game - I think this relates to the Concentric Game Design discussion from last month - and you adapt everything else to better fit what you had in mind)
3. Re-design (you take the original game as a starting point, and you keep some of it, but you change some of its core elements in order to change the way it works, the game dynamics and anything else that you'd feel like changing)
I think the groups in my classification can get really blurry on the edges. And I feel your #1 would cover from my #1 to the light stages of my #2, and that your #2 could go anywhere from my #2 to #3.
A true shame then I don't get that cool red "iridium plateau". :(
Beyond that, I agree with Jay Loomis in that it becomes a separate thing on its own.
