I founded the Indie Game Reading Club in 2010. I've written and developed RPGs since the mid-90s, now I mostly talk about playing them. View all posts by Paul Beakley
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“Until 1850, most of the games were made using engravings; a steel plate, which could produce up to 5,000 copies…”
I read something similar about maps from that period and earlier, which pointed out that due to degradation in the plates, maps from the same print run of an atlas could be quite different, and if care wasn’t taken between print runs, later editions could be significantly different. Such a weird thing to think about in these heady days of pocket GPS.
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The map is not only not the territory, it’s barely the map.
“Until 1850, most of the games were made using engravings; a steel plate, which could produce up to 5,000 copies…”
I read something similar about maps from that period and earlier, which pointed out that due to degradation in the plates, maps from the same print run of an atlas could be quite different, and if care wasn’t taken between print runs, later editions could be significantly different. Such a weird thing to think about in these heady days of pocket GPS.
The map is not only not the territory, it’s barely the map.