thread: 2005-04-04 : Participant vs. Author?
On 2005-04-06, Vincent wrote:
Sweet! Here's the next step:
You get it for individual rules. Do you get it for all the rules together, over the course of sessions of play?
The individual rules contribute procedurally, moment by moment. Over the course of sessions of play, patterns emerge; the game as a whole has a procedure. Looking at the individual rules, you may or may not be able to see what the whole procedure looks like.
Similarly: the individual rules contribute to the made-up events in the game, moment by moment. Over the course of sessions of play, patterns emerge in the fiction too: the game as a whole has a shape. Looking at the individual rules, you may or may not be able to see what sort of shape the whole game will have; you certainly won't be able to predict its exact shape.
Still with me?
