thread: 2005-06-16 : The Forge and Me
On 2005-06-18, Charles wrote:
Thank you for the offer of guest posting!No, not really volunteering, just wondering. It isn't exactly a question of raising topics (most of those topics do get raised either here or on the Forge), and I don't have any delusions that I have something brilliant to say about the nature of immersion or what makes people care about rules that has never been thought of before.
Of course, there are communities that are mostly devoted to the concerns of players rather than designers, but they don't seem as theoretically inclined as the designer community. There are certainly non-designer theorists, but there don't really seem to be any non-designer theorist communities.
Is this just history (rgfa was a largely non-designer theory community, so they have existed in the past), or is it that designers get more out of cooperative efforts in some way (perhaps in that someone can come up with practical theory ideas, and then see those ideas turned into visible game texts, rather than coming up with a practical theory idea and getting back reports of how it went in play for others)?
Okay, maybe I'll try to make up for these completely tangential and somewhat whiney comments by trying to write up a short piece on one of those topics. I haven't had much free time lately, but I'll see what I can do.
