Thanks, this is very helpful feedback. Request for more such notes from readers.
A lot of the motivation for writing it was, in fact, to figure out what my own opinions actually were.
I do think a lot of this has implications outside game design, and I was sad that I couldn’t efficiently write this in a way that didn’t bog it down in a lot of game-design-specific detail, which means it will be hard for those not into the detail to extract the implications unless I come back to them in another form.
I can see definite advantages to writing these posts and then using them as references for another post generalizing beyond game design. They will just be object-level context references instead of meta-level context references.
In fact of the two arrangements, I think the object-level references would be more useful to me.
Thanks, this is very helpful feedback. Request for more such notes from readers.
A lot of the motivation for writing it was, in fact, to figure out what my own opinions actually were.
I do think a lot of this has implications outside game design, and I was sad that I couldn’t efficiently write this in a way that didn’t bog it down in a lot of game-design-specific detail, which means it will be hard for those not into the detail to extract the implications unless I come back to them in another form.
I can see definite advantages to writing these posts and then using them as references for another post generalizing beyond game design. They will just be object-level context references instead of meta-level context references.
In fact of the two arrangements, I think the object-level references would be more useful to me.