thread: 2013-09-23 : Game Texts on the Object of the Game
On 2013-09-24, Rickard wrote:
The ?why? and ?how? are not exactly the object of a game, though. Board game blurbs are much more specific about their goals: ?accumulate more points than your opponents? or ?conquer the capital cities to win.?
I realized that I was more talking about the purpose of the game. To accumulate more points than your opponent, do you do that because you want to spend some time with your friends with a leisure game or is it because you want to compare your mastery of tactical decisions with the others or the game itself?
"It's been said that you never really know your friends until you see them when they're about to die."
That's the purpose of the game. The object of the game is instead a WHAT - a(n effective) tool that tells the reader how to reach the purpose. A tool that gives direction to achieve the purpose.
But like I said, this is not what Vincent talked about. I was stuck in my own thoughts where I think the object of the game (a WHAT) is a tool for HOW to make the participants understand WHY to play a game.
