thread: 2005-06-16 : The Forge and Me
On 2005-06-21, Adam Dray wrote:
I admit that I'm only solving one set of problems without considering other issues. A peer-reviewed journal may or may not kill the Forge as we know it. I don't know. I just wanted to get an idea out there to discuss.It may be that someone wants to do a theory journal away from the Forge. People are coming here and other blogs for different reasons than they go to the Forge. People are hungry for new ways to learn about design. Not everyone who learns about game design theory wants to contribute to that theory.
I've summarized my own problems with the Forge in two "shitstorm" posts, Forge pedagogy and Jargon and legacy, and whined a bit in Perceptions of Civility at the Forge.
To be clear, though, I never said the Forge was just a theory house. In fact, I said that it's a great forum for chatting and finding like-minded people, and I curbed myself from expounding about all the other virtues of the Forge. They distracted from the topic of that message, but I get it.
I think the most valuable forum is Actual Play, and it took me three and a half years to figure that out.
