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8334: [MUD-Dev] Re: Laws of Online World Design

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From: J C Lawrence <claw@under.engr.sgi.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 14:26:56 -0700
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Tue, 13 Oct 1998 14:14:04 -0500 
Koster, Raph<rkoster@origin.ea.com> wrote:

>> * It isn't a game if you cannot die. - Bartle?

> Richard, do you stand by this? Seems rather broad :)

The earlier and more common (?) version is,:

  It isn't a game if you can't lose.

This harks back to the basic mechanics of a game being a system
composed of goals, barriers, and freedoms.  Losing is both a
relfection of goals and a barrier.  Death is merely a form of
losing.

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