nick lowe on story/narrative/plot is worthwhile (from The Classical Plot and the Invention of Western Narrative)pic.twitter.com/B3HsUCbf2h
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counterpoint: critics & theorists _imposing_ narrative constructs on gaming have been a huge PITA and created little of value
yeah his thing is that the experience of stories is already game-like - games without story bullshit are small worlds of rules
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like in a story you can tell who's an NPC, he talks about a few clues that we just automatically interpretpic.twitter.com/gViWzVinKf
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if the world of rules is large enough, story emerges anyway.
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Dwarf Fortress is an excellent example.
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