Friday, March 09, 2007

Monthly Review February 2007

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This month has seen numerous investigations of different tools and approaches to play. Early on, Bradley "Brand" Robins described...
Monday, March 05, 2007

Weekly Review Feb. 25th to Mar. 3rd

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This week has seen several investigations on what people get into as they play, from shared imagined spaces to intimacy. Shared Imagined Spa...
Saturday, March 03, 2007

Lesson: Typhoid Mary

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'Typhoid Mary' is a term used to describe a particularly infamous disease vector , anyone who spreads a disease or contamination by ...
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Monday, February 26, 2007

Weekly Review - Feb. 19 to Feb. 25

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A quiet week was further complicated by the (hopefully temporary) collapse of the Story-Games forums; as of this column's deadline, it ...
Friday, February 23, 2007

Editorial: Depict, Describe, Discuss, Apply

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RPG theories can be understood in many terms. Some theories find themselves to be depicted, encoded as a picture, diagram, or other graphica...
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Monday, February 19, 2007

Weekly Review - Feb. 11 to Feb. 18

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Hi, Matthew George here, filling in for Mendel. Several bloggers, including John Kim and Matt Wilson , recently discussed an old livejourna...
Thursday, February 15, 2007

Lesson: Railroading

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Railroading is a term used to describe the imposition of a predefined set of resolutions onto the choices and conflicts that occur in play b...
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Sunday, February 11, 2007

Weekly Review Feb. 4th to Feb. 10th

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This week has seen several investigations into structure used in and around play. Persons of Play Fang Langford discusses the use of novel ...
Friday, February 09, 2007

Monthly Review January 2007

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January has seen a return to one of the popular areas of investigation from 2006, namely mediums and RPGs. However, this has focused much mo...
Monday, February 05, 2007

Weekly Review Jan. 28th to Feb. 3rd

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The theory developments this week have focused on the blurring of what have typically been taken as sharp lines, whether for characters or f...
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Thursday, February 01, 2007

Editorial: Your Own Theory

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Everyone who has ever played a RPG, and most who have even seen one has their own theories of RPGs. This collection of ideas, associations, ...
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Monday, January 29, 2007

Weekly Review Jan. 21st to Jan. 27th

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This past week has seen new discussions on game design and publishing, as well a few RPG theory developments. Loosely Defined Fang Langord ...