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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8625983" data-attributes="member: 82106">Are they really? I mean, lets imagine people playing a supers game in DC Universe. Don't you think they're going to have some interest in the setting as well as the genre? I mean, AT LEAST they're likely to evoke that setting as a tool, like I know some stuff about Aquaman because its canonical to the setting. Likewise I almost certainly want this game to be in keeping with the genre (it could hardly not be and succeed, and here genre and setting are likely to be somewhat closely tied together). Beyond that, are the game design strategies, techniques, and tools really all that different? In either case you want to emphasize certain kinds of elements, certain kinds of outcomes, and certain kinds of narratives. Similar design choices are likely to be a result. So, I see nothing about Setting Simulation and Genre Simulation that are OPPOSED, and it is likely at the very least that anything which supports one is not going to cut against the other, as setting and genre seem like things that are usually developed hand-in-hand in most cases. Now, if you are creating your own entirely novel settings and genres, then perhaps this might not hold so strongly, though it still seems like there's some relationship there. However I'm loathe to call that 'simulationist', though perhaps there isn't a better label for it in GNS (and I don't have a problem with just not sticking to GNS, its only one possible analytical framework).</blockquote>

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