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This is where role-playing games become role-playing economies.
Chris Rempel • Part 2: creating the new frontier – Chris Rempel's Blog
Play finite games, win finite prizes
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Games that fail to exercise the brain become boring.
Raph Koster • Theory of Fun for Game Design
The Rise of Virtual Communities: In Conversation with Virtual World Pioneers
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As we learn more patterns, more novelty is needed to make a game attractive.
Raph Koster • Theory of Fun for Game Design
The definition of a good game is therefore “one that teaches everything it has to offer before the player stops playing.”
Raph Koster • Theory of Fun for Game Design
the more rigidly constructed your game is, the more limited it will be.