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    1. …in reply to @David_Rudnick
      @David_Rudnick oh, for sure - i care a lot about games. but also for me games are (from Bernie DeKoven) about a community of play, a voluntary & shared space where the rules can be constantly renegotiated. even when those are fixed eg Chess, it's about a shared willingness to abide by rules.
  1. …in reply to @v21
    @David_Rudnick whereas a singleplayer videogame is a predefined system that you manipulate, seeking a particular outcome. interesting wrinkles in how that system operates, discovery, and usually a fictional world to immerse yourself in... but it's not socially constructed in the same way
    1. …in reply to @v21
      @David_Rudnick and for me a toy is similar, but without any goals set for you - it's about manipulating a system for the pure joy of it