Backstory (was RE: [MUD-Dev] New poll)

[J C Lawrence]

On Fri, 09 Jun 2000 16:59:57 -0700 
J C Lawrence <claw at cp.net> wrote:

> Which is the real convinving factor.  If backstories are so
> thoroughly ignorable and ignored, and yet we are achieving some
> modicum of success in communicating the framing of our games (ie
> the backstory), then what is actually doing the work?  Is the
> backstory really a critical part that merely pretends to be
> irrelevant?  Or is the backstory truly irrelevant and there's
> something else which is accomplishing what we consider the purpose
> of a back story, and we just don't realise it?  Or, is a back
> story really only used by a very small percentage of the player
> base who then memetically infect the rest of the player base with
> the appropriate effects from the back story?

> My suspicion is that its the third form that actually happens.  I
> don't have anything to demonstrate it other than gut feel however.

It is at this point that I reveal tht I can't count.  My suspicion
is that its the last form (memetic osmosis) that actually happens.
I don't have anything to demonstrate it other than gut feel however.

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