January 2008

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• The Illusion of World Size (Was: Player Choice - How Much is Too Much?) Christopher Lloyd
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• [Design] Non-cliche content creation Mike Rozak
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      • • [Design] Non-cliche content creation Damion Schubert
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                          Sean Howard wrote:
                          > "cruise" <cruise@casual-tempest.net> wrote:
                          >
                          >> It's not success if everyone has it all.
                          >
                          > I had a teacher who believed the same thing, such that test scores were
                          > given relative to other students. If five students got a perfect score and
                          > one student missed one question of hundreds, he would automatically get a
                          > B by virtue of not being in the top 10% scorers. There were students who
                          > literally failed his class with work that would've been consider B-quality
                          > work. How well you did in the class was entirely dependent on who else was
                          > in your class. Needless to say, he wasn't a particularly favored teacher.
                          > He caused people to drop out of computer science. He caused people to drop
                          > out of COLLEGE.
                          >
                          > Competition for something so universally required as success is not just
                          > detrimental, it's cruel.
                          >
                          
                          You realize your example has absolutely nothing to do what everyone else
                          is saying, right? Nobody has said a game should grant success on a bell
                          curve. But failure should be a possibility, or else the game is pretty
                          empty, meaningless, and pointless.
                          
                          Please, resist the temptation to make completely ridiculous analogies.
                          Successfully obtaining an education is of far greater importance than
                          being successful in a game. Games have winners and losers because that
                          is part of the whole point of playing. The point of getting an education
                          is to learn.
                          
                          
                          --
                          Michael Hartman, J.D. (http://www.frogdice.com)
                          President & CEO, Frogdice, Inc.
                          University of Georgia School of Law, 1995-1998
                          Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, 1990-1994
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