I’ve taken an interest in TTRPGs recently. I want to say that it was the impact of going to PAX Unplugged, but I am fairly certain it started before that — after all, I have spent the past couple years working on a book about Magic: The Gathering (which I am working on finishing now) and attending…
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The Ludic Plague
A few years ago, Eric Zimmerman wrote about the oncoming century as a ludic one, explaining that games fundamentally change the stakes of media. Altering each encounter, everyone becomes a designer. Consumers become participants. We’ll be able to learn about complex systems because we will be able to gamify them, and in being gamified they…