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December 5, 2022: On game design: Eric Zimmerman, author, "The Rules We Break"
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Today: On game design – Eric Zimmerman, author, “The Rules We Break”
• The Rules We Break: Lessons in Play, Thinking, and Design, by Eric Zimmerman, published by Princeton Architectural Press. A wide range of entertaining, thought-provoking games, exercises, and short essays. . . . [the] real-world exercises are designed to be played on tabletops, as playground-style physical games, and via social interactions with others in person or online.”
• theruleswebreak.com, book site: “The Rules We Break is a design book that asks you to play. It is not a book of information to learn or facts to absorb. It is a handbook for doing.”
• ericzimmerman.com, Eric’s site: “I design videogames, tabletop games, and large-scale game installations. I also teach at the NYU game center, write about game design, and work with amazing people like Local No. 12 and the Institute of Play.”
• Eric's games include The Metagame (featured on Oct 9, 2017, the fifth TT episode), Diner Dash, Blix, Sissyfight 2000, and Waiting Rooms (with Nathalie Pozzi).
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herb.nyc:
"the rules we break" - i saw a DISRUPT THINGS ad on subway, for DEEL. for what the hell is a deel?
Ken From Hyde Park:
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Folsom, I can see Twixt from where I'm sitting.
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Handy Haversack:
But a break from the carrots to say that after 40 years of trying to be good at running (designing) D&D-like games, it was the embrace of friction and letting it lead to discovery and ludic joy that really began to make it all work for me -- which I find to be the ethos of the DIY TTRPG sphere and totally anathema to currently in-print corporate D&D.
Friction. Therein lies the rub!
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[ divining / defining failure of a social media site]
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At certain stores, there are no shopping baskets because people forgot to return them because people used the baskets as their shopping bag/container. So you have to use a shopping cart at certain stores instead; at other stores you use a box at the store or your own shopping bag or nothing. I have never felt obliged to fill up my shopping cart because of the "empty space".
I would comment on seating at various public transportation locales, but that would be a novella.
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[I'm nostalgic for the times my friend Bennett and I have gotten to work together]
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Thanks for the info. Will WMFU now display its Mastodon posts on the WFMU home page?
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