GeekNights Lectures
Every Game is the Same Game (Rym Edition)
Zenkaikon 2025
How often do you describe a new game as "X game crossed with Y game?" This is Dominion crossed with Chess. This is Quake crossed with Dance Dance Revolution. This is a Civilization-style game but with puzzle elements. If games are collections of mechanics, and genres are also essentially collections of mechanics, then we can dig deep into how games are described to find the deepest and most core patterns of game. In the end it's all just entertainment software!
Rym was at Zenkaikon alone, so this is a solo version of the talk that swaps all the food metaphors for physics metaphors ;)
Content tagged with rym
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Radio Free Equestria p001 - The Economy
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PAX East 2011 Triple Threat: The Game Makes the Community (part 1/2)
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PAX East 2011 Triple Threat: The Game Makes the Community (part 2/2)
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PAX East 2011 Triple Threat: The Ballad of Dudebro
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PAX East 2011 Triple Threat: MMOs are Anything But
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Rym and Scott of GeekNights presented three mini-panels at PAX East 2011 within "The Triple …
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PAX East 2011 Triple Threat: Short Subjects in Gaming - Intro
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