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I am unsure what you are referring to here

How can you evaluate a spesific game in a truely context free case? The game under evaluation seem to be context? This thread have...

Is there any reason someone couldn't just say "I prefer to resolve skills checks in a simulationist matter" regardless of what they...

Although in this respect one can argue narrative and sandbox games are the same, as ideally once play gets going in a sandbox game the...

Here is what I find funny (and I haven't read all the posts, but just a post here and there) Ron Edwards does this deep theory crafting...

That's an interesting line of investigation. To tease out a possible confound, suppose arguendo that i) players can have purposes for...

Okay, so simulation isn’t the goal, it’s the biggest method in simulation games. Which then brings me back to my question, shouldn’t...

I'm not entirely clear what you mean here, but based on previous posts I will hazard a guess and say not necessarily. I think you can...

Yes. Exactly this! If viewed as trying to differentiate narrativism from every other style of play it makes a lot of sense...

Really GNS exists as a way to carve out space for narrativism. I've always thought of it as sort of like a weird manifesto presented as...

What I’m saying is that simulation isn’t the primary goal of simulationist play, it’s just a necessary component. You can reframe...

I don’t think I’m suggesting anything incompatible with him. I don’t agree that only narrativist and gamist are the only agendas for...

That doesn’t seem like the critical response to that observation. The critical response would be that we have mislabeled something...

Shouldn’t Player goals be THE agenda?

For the sake of argument, why can't it be both? Someone who was an abolitionist was called that because of something they pursued. An...