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<blockquote data-quote="Piperken" data-source="post: 9731367" data-attributes="member: 7047091">I don't feel the valid approaches both of you have mentioned towards game design contradict one another; a designer can hold these in the same container and benefit from them.I think what's changed significantly is the navigation one takes with their game from ideas &gt; development &gt; play testing &gt; finished product; how that's done compared to in the past has influenced what kinds of games we are seeing now:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Systems that were kitchen sink (GURPS is one that comes to mind) were more common. The trend now is more towards specificity and clear intent, games of shorter length (a campaign having less sessions on average); players seek games that do some handful of rpg-things in a game really well! Capsule-style games would be an example e.g. Mythic Bastionland.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">More notably, designers that have backing iterate their ruleset to other genres (e.g. Free League's YZE titles, or more recently Grimwild's MOXIE, whose creator has plans for a Western setting among others) through scaled plans.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Newer or smaller designers can more easily leverage crowdsharing (by licenses or otherwise) now to spur evolution of their original system to other spaces through community-building jams, word-of-mouth (use Ironsworn for Mouseguard!), and so on.</li>
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[QUOTE="Piperken, post: 9731367, member: 7047091"] I don't feel the valid approaches both of you have mentioned towards game design contradict one another; a designer can hold these in the same container and benefit from them. I think what's changed significantly is the navigation one takes with their game from ideas > development > play testing > finished product; how that's done compared to in the past has influenced what kinds of games we are seeing now: [LIST] [*]Systems that were kitchen sink ([I]GURPS[/I] is one that comes to mind) were more common. The trend now is more towards specificity and clear intent, games of shorter length (a campaign having less sessions on average); players seek games that do some handful of rpg-things in a game really well! Capsule-style games would be an example e.g. [I]Mythic Bastionland.[/I] [*]More notably, designers that have backing iterate their ruleset to other genres (e.g. Free League's YZE titles, or more recently Grimwild's MOXIE, whose creator has plans for a Western setting among others) through scaled plans. [*]Newer or smaller designers can more easily leverage crowdsharing (by licenses or otherwise) now to spur evolution of their original system to other spaces through community-building jams, word-of-mouth (use [I]Ironsworn[/I] for [I]Mouseguard[/I]!), and so on. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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