"Its a game, Prudence. Just a game.
"The idea is to allow players to begin on the levelest of playing fields with equal amounts of 'currency'. The object of the game is to improve ones currency position by a mix of leading to the emergence of general good (and rewarded appropriately) and competing in a free market (with mostly laissez faire rules). The winner is the one with the the largest contribution to the wealth of the players as a whole."
He wasn't addressing anyone in particular but the whole subject was often dismissed as trivial or misleading. "The subject should be left to the 'experts'", they would often say.
Which experts? Game designers? Degreed authorities? Accepted publications? Popular pundits, perhaps?
"In the case of game design should we try to start from a generic game framework?"
NOTE: Some of the foregoing in this BuzzTheHill post is not fictional. Consider its appearance here as a public disclosure and as such, to the degree something novel and not obvious to those skilled in the art has been discussed, the specific intent was/is to put it in the PUBLIC DOMAIN.
Which experts? Game designers? Degreed authorities? Accepted publications? Popular pundits, perhaps?
"In the case of game design should we try to start from a generic game framework?"
NOTE: Some of the foregoing in this BuzzTheHill post is not fictional. Consider its appearance here as a public disclosure and as such, to the degree something novel and not obvious to those skilled in the art has been discussed, the specific intent was/is to put it in the PUBLIC DOMAIN.
© 2012 Buzz Hill
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