Bad Game Design

[benlehman]

(mostly for my own benefit.)

So when people come to the Forge and read the GNS essays and get all excited they often design a bad game. Also, when people play a story game and get all excited they often design a bad game, not understanding that you can't just throw design tools together.

Anyway, about four years ago, a guy named Roger drew a fantastic picture of just this sort of bad "narrativist" design and bad "gamist" design (respectively) on Vincent blog. Four years ago, and we're still fighting this stuff today.

Comments

[gillan.livejournal.com]

"I want to make a game about rebellion. So first, we'll give all the characters a Rebelliousness stat!"

[l-the-fangirl.livejournal.com]

Come to that, I think this is PRECISELY why Bishoujo Shinigami never worked; the arrows were a leeetle too close to pointing directly at the premise.

I need to revise that now.