Raph Koster

ICYMI this morning or tried to look at it while the link was broken: here's the slides for my GDCNext talk. http://www.raphkoster.com/2013/11/06/gdcnext13-slides-for-playing-with-game/ …

@raphkoster Wish I could have seen it. Would argue with the premise that an empty//"free" space exists. Assumes culture doesn't inform play.

@ibull don't see why it makes that assumption? Culture is also a network of signs in this sense, and also has play to it?

@raphkoster materiality informs play but that is obscured in theoretical discussion of sign. In terms of "better" games, better for whom?

@ibull my version of better in the talk was "works towards the creator's intent better", eg a craft perspective

@raphkoster I struggle with thinking linearly about craft. To some extent artists channel a level of understanding patterns outside language

@ibull artists have always used craft terminology to aid them in that process

@raphkoster to some extent that's true, but it's also bullshit 99% of the time. Like coaches who try to explain how to throw a ball.