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From: HRose <hrose@tiscali.it>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 08:19:14 +0200
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
Raph koster wrote:
> First, define "downtime." I'd say it is "moments during gameplay
> when you are not actively participating in a game choice."
> - There's downtime when you are waiting for the optimal moment
> to perform an action you have already decided on.
> - There's downtime where you are prevented from performing an
> action.
> - There's downtime to rest up the player (physically or
> psychologically).
> - There's downtime to optimally prepare for a subsequent game
> choice (some of the preparation may involve choices in itself,
> but some may not, such as sitting to recover mana or HPs).
> - ...I'm sure there are more. Fundamentally, there's downtime
> that is resented and downtime that is not.
You mix here. There are downtimes happening as part of the game
(pacing, timing actions etc..) and there are downtimes that are a
break from the game. To incentivate and open a space for different
part (socialization).
With your list here you dodge the critic. Not answer it. You cannot
associate gameplay downtimes and out-of-gameplay downtimes. The
firsts are excused and indispensable, the seconds are broken design
to achieve artificially a different, external purpose from the game
itself.
And, by the way, "timing" IS a game choice.
-HRose / Abalieno
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