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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The-Magic-Sword" data-source="post: 8373052" data-attributes="member: 6801252">To be fair, the designers of those properties don't approach designing them with any level of 'simplistic joy.' The process of creating that joy involves discussions of 'praxis' (this one isn't waffle really, even in the context of play I've seen it in academic journals) 'player agency over the state of the fiction' and 'neo-traditional play' each of those is a fancy way of talking about something that either creates joy, or categorizes how things create joy and what things they create joy in. My Little Pony for instance, probably involves a lot of discussion about demographics, identities (so the characters can be written to be relatable for different kinds of kids), messaging that blends with that of other properties to leverage and reinforce a mutual ecosystem of what kids like and believe, etc. All that stuff is really technical too, and its (mostly) necessary to create the simplistic joy derived from My Little Pony.</blockquote>