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Tag: Facilitation

Player Canon

June 18, 2021June 18, 2021 Paul Beakley1 Comment

Quick list of ideas to pull players into the setting-making business.

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Posted in Indie Game Reading Club, TechniqueTagged Facilitation, Playing, Technique

Radical Transparency

August 20, 2018February 16, 2021 Paul Beakley31 Comments

Today's thing is "Which game mechanic inspires your game the most?" Weird question once you get out of the trad/conventional play bubble, but it did get me thinking. Mostly I got hung up on "what even is a mechanic?"

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Reading the Signs

March 30, 2016October 22, 2020 Paul BeakleyLeave a comment

One of my favorite things about really mastering a system is discovering the signals that a well-designed game sends.

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Sandplot!

March 8, 2016October 22, 2020 Paul BeakleyLeave a comment

Sandplot!

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Radical Transparency and Noobs

July 27, 2015October 22, 2020 Paul BeakleyLeave a comment

Talking through this stuff with brand-new players, I wonder if my entire radical-transparency approach only works once you've gotten immersive actor-stance play "out of your system?"

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