[MUD-Dev] New Topic: Butthead features

[clawrenc at cup.hp.com]

In <3.0.2.32.19970819222205.008a1670 at mail.tenetwork.com>, on 08/19/97 
   at 10:43 PM, Jeff Kesselman <jeffk at tenetwork.com> said:

>At 09:59 PM 8/19/97 PST8PDT, 
>JCL wrote:

>>On my end I'm a lot more interested in building what I think might be
>>an interesting system, and then seeing what people will do with it,

>Okay,
>So your building a test-tube and Im building a recreational device.

>Its a fair and pretty major difference.

Not exactly.  Both are intended as recreational devices.  One attempts
to achieve that end is a pre-planned manner such that "fun" occurs in
largely pre-known ways by defining a known and well defined game
method and purpose.  The other builds a set of thought-to-be
interesting mechanics, and then gives players free-reign with them to
see if they create amusing games within the mechanical interactions. 
The key is that one pre-defines the game and the game mechanics, and
the other pre-defines only the game mechanics and leaves the
definition of the game to the players.

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