thread: 2005-11-10 : Open House: Ask a Frequent Question...
On 2006-01-27, Vincent wrote:
Yeah, Mark, that's how I understood you. "Ongoing informed agreement" rules out non-ephemeral forms. That is, when you introduce any distance between creator and audience, you no longer have the possibility of ongoing informed agreement; instead, you split the participants very really into creator and audience.
I am not an art theoretician! I am talking out my butt!
This makes ethan go "Dude."
How do you type with your butt?
This makes VB go "VERY SLOWDBLUY"
This makes XP go "You take a pencil"
squeeze down hard and do a little dance over the keyboard. As for ephemeral, there might be transcripts of the game or stories told to other people about the game, but I guess those are byproducts, right?
This makes VB go "transcripts and stuff..."
...have creators and audience. The audience doesn't get to participate in the ongoing informed agreement; the interaction between the creators and the audience of a transcript is fundamentally dissimilar to the interaction between the original participants.
This makes DY go "But the Original Participants"
can be roleplaying, can't they? If not, why not? (comment 85)
