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This is a collection of the best posts on Game Design Advance<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n

Bernie DeKoven<\/b><\/a>
by Frank Lantz<\/strong>
“…we play games for a\u00a0purpose<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 for a particular kind of pleasure, beauty, and meaning \u2013 and looking at this purpose helps us understand what\u2019s going on in a game, in this dance between games and players, rules and play.”<\/p>\n

The Fruit of Knowledge<\/strong><\/a>
by Frank Lantz<\/strong>
“Every time I start a game of Serpentes<\/em> I have to deliberately flush out the registers of my short-term memory. This is a game in which forgetting is a key skill. Then during play, as I discover the new properties of the different fruits, I must actively re-wire the connections between image and meaning.”<\/p>\n

The Procession of the Line<\/strong><\/a>
by Charles J Pratt<\/strong>
“Ridiculous Fishing<\/em> is not a game.”<\/p>\n

In Praise of Spoilsports<\/strong><\/a>
by Charles J Pratt<\/strong>
“To the spoilsport a game is not a product that you pluck off a shelf and bring home to place in a machine. A game is rather a social confluence of motivations and practices.”<\/p>\n

Games are Not Media<\/a><\/strong>
by Frank Lantz<\/strong>
“We\u2019ve lived with games forever, but we are only now starting to aggressively explore them as meaningful culture.”<\/p>\n

Proceed with Caution: Process and Contingency in Games and Art<\/a><\/strong>
by Scott Hoffer<\/strong>
“Ultimately, these parallels offer a way of considering both the \u2018gameness of art\u2019 and the \u2018artness of games\u2019 more than they suggest that games are art, or vice versa.”<\/p>\n

Wandering Towards Interactive Narrative<\/a><\/strong>
by Charles J Pratt<\/strong>
“What Shiren proves beyond a shadow of the doubt is that at the end of the day the most interesting story in a game should be your own.”<\/p>\n

The Case Against ‘Art-Games’<\/a><\/strong>
by Charles J Pratt<\/strong>
“The prevailing wisdom may be that games have not achieved the vaunted status of \u2018art\u2019, but perhaps the problem isn\u2019t with games.”<\/p>\n

Turn Me on, Dead Man: Why Urban Legends Make the Best ARGs<\/a><\/strong>
by Bob Clark <\/strong>
“Truth can be stranger than fiction, and wrangling it can keep everything simple as long as you stick to the lessons you learned the fiftieth time you listened to Revolution #9.”<\/p>\n

Advice for Aspiring Game Critics<\/a><\/strong>
by Charles J Pratt<\/strong>
“Games are aesthetic experiences and critics should strive to understand and communicate the ramifications of a design choice and not dismiss it out of hand as if there is some Platonic ideal that all games should strive towards.”<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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