Comments on: Cloisters of Gamers http://headgames.wordpress.com/2006/11/20/cloisters-of-gamers/ Welcome to the Night of the Black Cows Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:50:14 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Yudhishthira’s Dice » Mental Modes, Genre, and Designing What Doesn’t Matter http://headgames.wordpress.com/2006/11/20/cloisters-of-gamers/#comment-107 Yudhishthira’s Dice » Mental Modes, Genre, and Designing What Doesn’t Matter Sun, 11 Feb 2007 19:22:33 +0000 http://headgames.wordpress.com/2006/11/20/cloisters-of-gamers/#comment-107 [...] So, what we need are ways to communicate our genres, not so they can be slavishly copied whole cloth (is my game Nar enough for Vincent?), but so that they can be used as basis for both further exploration, and also for mutual understanding of different genres and for ways for groups to learn to play together and with new people. For a good article on that, I’d recommend Cloisters of Gamers. [...] [...] So, what we need are ways to communicate our genres, not so they can be slavishly copied whole cloth (is my game Nar enough for Vincent?), but so that they can be used as basis for both further exploration, and also for mutual understanding of different genres and for ways for groups to learn to play together and with new people. For a good article on that, I’d recommend Cloisters of Gamers. [...]

]]> By: Brand Robins http://headgames.wordpress.com/2006/11/20/cloisters-of-gamers/#comment-37 Brand Robins Tue, 28 Nov 2006 21:53:30 +0000 http://headgames.wordpress.com/2006/11/20/cloisters-of-gamers/#comment-37 "When they go out from their cloister or seek entrance into a new cloister, they should understand that there will be no common language with which to begin. They will have to approach the new cloister with a mixture of reverence and commitment. Reverence for what the group has achieved, reverence for the fact that it will take time to pick up on that group’s peculiarities. Commitment to furthering that group, not just accepting what they have done and accommodating to it, but bringing to bear their own personality, their own virtues which can contribute to the cloister’s development." Word. “When they go out from their cloister or seek entrance into a new cloister, they should understand that there will be no common language with which to begin. They will have to approach the new cloister with a mixture of reverence and commitment. Reverence for what the group has achieved, reverence for the fact that it will take time to pick up on that group’s peculiarities. Commitment to furthering that group, not just accepting what they have done and accommodating to it, but bringing to bear their own personality, their own virtues which can contribute to the cloister’s development.”

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