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Pulsipher Game Design

This blog contains comments by Dr. Lewis Pulsipher about tabletop games he is designing or has designed in the past, as well as comments on game design (tabletop and video) in general. It repeats his blog at http://pulsiphergamedesign.blogspot.com/
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Six words about stories in games

Posted by Lewis Pulsipher
14 Jan 2012
Lewis Pulsipher
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According to a recent tweetdeck, one of the trending:worldwide topics on twitter was 6 word stories. In the past few months I've asked people to say 6 words about game design, programming, wargames, and casual games.

This time the charge is this: say six words about stories in games (or stories and games, if you prefer).
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Kevin B. Smith
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Games: Each play creates a story
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  • Posted Sat Jan 14, 2012 10:45 pm
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J C Lawrence
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This too shall come to pass.
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"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly." (GK Chesterton)
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"That's how the light gets in." (Leonard Cohen)
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Let no game tell a story.


Stories can emerge from a game.
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  • Posted Sun Jan 15, 2012 1:26 am
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Story: another overloaded ambiguous gaming term.

Explicit and themed? Emergent? Preferences vary.

Do abstracts have story? People disagree.
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Good games can create a story.
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marc lecours
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competive interactive strategies create emergent stories.
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marc lecours
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rules plus victory conditions equal stories
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Stories are what you talk about.
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No narrative? No fun for me.
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This overtext is brought to you by the abstract strategy game Battle of LITS and the number 20.
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Some love them, others hate them.
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Conflict begets stories. Games have conflict.
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Throw bad games off 17th story.
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Games help your players create stories.
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I only counted each's words here.
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Narratives are for those without imagination.
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"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly." (GK Chesterton)
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garygarison wrote:
Narratives are for those without imagination.

Narratives can guide a player's imagination.

or

A good imagination makes narratives unnecessary.

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Story:

Why you start playing the game.

What you remember after the game.

What keeps you playing the game.

It makes a game an experience.
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