http://blog.wrigstad.com If there is a God, there is God in the fact that you don't hear what other people say when you are not around. Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:02:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Pretentious post titles aside, the question "what is the definition of a game" is perhaps mildly interesting even to us non-RPG scholars. Sadly, most discussions I've seen (and they are mostly coming out of the "your jeepform games aren't games") are just utterly fucking stupid. They either boil down to talking about enjoyment (a game ... http://blog.wrigstad.com/?p=162 Getting caught in commuter traffic the other day, my thoughts wandered off and I came back to the apparent thin-skinnedness of most other playing cultures' I've seen outside of Scandinavia (now counting Finland, in case you were wondering). It is relatively clear to me now, that there's a long tradition of playing "serious games" up ... http://blog.wrigstad.com/?p=161 Tomorrow, there is going to be a parliamentary debate about whether larp and board games are culture or not. Obviously they are. Nevertheless it is going to be interesting to listen in (I will attend it), and also to take part of the democratic system, albeit passively. I suspect that ... http://blog.wrigstad.com/?p=160 Oh, by the way. If you are interested in the slides from the lecture on how to write freeform and jeepform games (loaded with tons of examples), you can simply go here for the English version and here for the Swedish version. Any comments and suggestions are most welcome! This is not some final state of ... http://blog.wrigstad.com/?p=158 A couple of days ago, I did a search for Swedish freeform role-playing games to see what's new and hot and interesting and worth a read to get some inspiration and hopefully learn something new from. I found quite a few (maybe 10 games I hadn't seen before), and some of them were actually ... http://blog.wrigstad.com/?p=157 Alright. I should update this blog more frequently. In the last year, I've moved countries, and changed jobs twice. I have bought myself an expensive apartment, and I have found out just how dangerous it is to live too close to one's favourite bar. But actually, the reason I haven't really posted about ... http://blog.wrigstad.com/?p=156 I've made a mistake. I was recently in a panel debate at InterNosCon 2010, in Italy, with Ron Edwards as my fellow panelist. When I was explaining jeepform origins, Ron butted in right around when I talked about, co-designing form and story, to say "system does matter." I hadn't read that article at the ... http://blog.wrigstad.com/?p=155 I knew it would happen at some point. Almost surprised it hasn't happened before. A few days back, some guy called Davis Grey leaked GR online and started a thread at some role-playing site about how fucked up the game is (which it is). If you (like me) enjoy following ... http://blog.wrigstad.com/?p=154 Starting today, the genders of two partners is not important for marriage in Sweden and the first same-gender marriage subsequently happened this morning [1]. The next step is to kill the arbitrary idea that marriage is binary, but this is, I think, only a temporary solution and mostly an effort ... http://blog.wrigstad.com/?p=152 Here they are, finally. Love to all who where there. http://blog.wrigstad.com/?p=151