Comments on: A late telegram

By: Matthijs

Matthijs — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:50:14 +0000

Yeah, empirical evidence is hard to get. I had a look at some of the videos over at the Spione website, but that's a different beast again - very much a Story Game, I guess.

By: frederik

frederik — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:50:30 +0000

Yes, Jeepform is really gathering momentum these days. With Tobias evangelising in the states and me moving to the center of europe, nothing can stop us .

The Nørwegian Style site just rocked my day. I’ll have a closer look at the games (a lot!!!) one of these days. Tell more people.

Getting back to the us-sc debate, the real problem is exactly that: Lack of empirical evidence. Only a few people that I know of have actually played with americans. But, based on my limited knowledge of US gaming culture, it seems as if there is a difference in play-style or play-preference. Why is Jason Morningstar surprised of our play-style (listen here)?

By: Matthijs

Matthijs — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:56:15 +0000

So I listened to the podcast. (First time I’ve ever listened to an entire podcast – took me four days I heard you describe how Jason explained his game – but I was expecting more references to real people in concrete situations. The discussion of U. S. gaming centered more around design philosophies and written texts, as far as I could hear. There’s little doubt that they design games differently than you do, for instance, but I’m not sure how that translates into real-life play situations.

It’s cool that Jeepform is getting a lot of international love these days, and the Italians seem to be very ready for international impulses.

In Norway there seems to be a movement towards, I don’t know what to call it, semi-immersionist collective storytelling? Games that assume that players are capable of storytelling and cooperation, that we know what a good story is. You should check out some of the games at Nørwegian Style, they’re pretty representative of an emerging trend.

By: Matthijs

Matthijs — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:28:09 +0000

“american roleplayers do not, I repeat, do not, play the same way as we do in scandinavia”

- tell me more about this!

By: Frederik

Frederik — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 06:58:27 +0000

Hi Matthijs, I am writing a longer essay about this, in the meantime try to give this podcast a listen. I am being interviewed by Per Fischer on exact this topic.