September 2006

• Amusement park gaming (was: [REPOST] Value) Siege)
• Risk vs Reward [was: Value] Mike Rozak
• • Risk vs Reward [was: Value] Matt Chatterley
  • • Risk vs Reward [was: Value] cruise
    • • Risk vs Reward [was: Value] Sean Howard
        "cruise" <cruise@casual-tempest.net> wrote:
        > In "Rules of Play" Salen and Zimmerman use the term "meaningful choices"
        > - which is much more descriptive to my mind. It's a choice where the
        > effect of the outcomes is obvious to the player at the time they make
        > the choice, and they care about those effects.
        
        I prefer "interesting choices". Meaningful implies something that I just
        don't think is true for all games. I mean, if I select the flower
        wallpaper over the polkadot wallpaper, that's not even meaningful to
        myself. I don't really care, so I'll just select one until such time that
        I might care (ie I get tired of wallpaper A or it suddenly becomes an
        eyesore next to my neon green couch). However, the choice is interesting
        because the options are quite different. I'm not choosing between three
        barely different granite patterns. The options have been selected by the
        designer (or the player through mods) to be different enough that the
        decision is not dominated or confusing or insignificant.
        
        I wouldn't call it meaningful, though I guess you could say that if a
        choice were interesting, that would be meaningful. I just prefer a
        different implication other than it means something to the player, because
        that's not always true - I mean, if you can play through Mortal Kombat by
        just jump kicking in a corner, does that make all the other available
        options to you meaningful?
        
        --
        Sean Howard
      • • Risk vs Reward [was: Value] cruise
        • • Risk vs Reward [was: Value] Mike Rozak
          • • Risk vs Reward [was: Value] Sean Howard
            • • Risk vs Reward [was: Value] cruise
              • Risk vs Reward [was: Value] Mike Rozak
              • • Risk vs Reward [was: Value] Sean Howard
                • • Risk vs Reward [was: Value] Mike Rozak
      • Risk vs Reward [was: Value] Matt Chatterley
  • Risk vs Reward [was: Value] Michael Hartman
• [DESIGN] *Starting* Real Currency Based Worlds Nick Koranda
• • [DESIGN] *Starting* Real Currency Based Worlds ghovs@plex.nl
  • • [DESIGN] *Starting* Real Currency Based Worlds Lachek Butalek
  • [DESIGN] *Starting* Real Currency Based Worlds William Leader
  • • [DESIGN] *Starting* Real Currency Based Worlds Nick Koranda
    • • [DESIGN] *Starting* Real Currency Based Worlds Johnicholas Hines
      • [DESIGN] *Starting* Real Currency Based Worlds ghovs@plex.nl
      • • [DESIGN] *Starting* Real Currency Based Worlds William Leader
        • • [DESIGN] *Starting* Real Currency Based Worlds Michael Hartman
  • [DESIGN] *Starting* Real Currency Based Worlds Lachek Butalek
  • [DESIGN] *Starting* Real Currency Based Worlds Johnicholas Hines
  • [DESIGN] *Starting* Real Currency Based Worlds cruise
• [DESIGN] MMO's are for Newbies Nicholas Koranda
• • [DESIGN] MMO's are for Newbies Nicholas Koranda
  • [DESIGN] MMO's are for Newbies Richard A. Bartle
  • [DESIGN] MMO's are for Newbies John Buehler
  • • [DESIGN] MMO's are for Newbies Richard A. Bartle
    • • [DESIGN] MMO's are for Newbies John Buehler
      • • [DESIGN] MMO's are for Newbies Richard A. Bartle
        • • [DESIGN] MMO's are for Newbies Sean Howard
          • • [DESIGN] MMO's are for Newbies Richard A. Bartle
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