Thanks to Boing Boing making the site melt down with popularity, creating a new #1 post of all time, I see that A Theory of Fun also climbed up the charts, hitting #1 in the abstruse category of
Books > Subjects > Computers & Internet > Games & Strategy Guides > Programming. Woo hoo!
This does make it the #5 best selling game book, though, behind the strategy guides and atlases for Sims 2, EQ2, and WoW.
Johnny Wilson has gotten around to posting extensive notes on the Living Game Worlds symposium I attended a few weeks ago, including some notes on what I said.
Gamasutra is posting the letters they got in response to Dave Sirlin’s Soapbox on WoW.
The discussions on the lessons make me curious.
What is it you want? Not in terms of exhaustive mechanics, specific and highly detailed setting information, and so on, but the spirit of it.
(Not that I think you’re necessarily a representative bunch…!)
Just noting this to remind me to look at it at some point: John Kirk’s Design Patterns of Successful Roleplaying Games… it’s a free PDF download.
