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Tag Archives: Theory

Reminiscences of the Future, Part 3: Gaming Against Disaster & Dystopia

Richard Duke’s philosophy of gaming against disaster & dystopia

Posted byLīber LūdōrumOctober 29, 2024October 29, 2024Posted inCriticism, TheoryTags:design, dystopia, Theory, ttrpg4 Comments on Reminiscences of the Future, Part 3: Gaming Against Disaster & Dystopia

Reminiscences of the Future, Part 2: A Theory of Gaming

Richard Duke’s philosophy of gaming against disaster & dystopia

Posted byLīber LūdōrumOctober 29, 2024October 29, 2024Posted inTheoryTags:design, dystopia, Theory, ttrpg3 Comments on Reminiscences of the Future, Part 2: A Theory of Gaming

Reminiscences of the Future, Part 1: Game Design by Accident

Richard Duke’s philosophy of gaming against disaster & dystopia

Posted byLīber LūdōrumOctober 29, 2024October 31, 2024Posted inTheoryTags:design, dystopia, Theory, ttrpg2 Comments on Reminiscences of the Future, Part 1: Game Design by Accident

Callers, Multilogue, and the GM as Ant Queen

Army ant bivouac by Geoff Gallice. Used under CC BY 2.0.

More musings on communication and structure in TTRPGs

Posted byLīber LūdōrumJanuary 2, 2023Posted inTheoryTags:communication, complexity, Theory, ttrpgLeave a comment on Callers, Multilogue, and the GM as Ant Queen

Revaluating RPGs, Abridged

A summary & discussion of my paper about RPGs and art

Posted byLīber LūdōrumApril 13, 2022October 21, 2022Posted inTheoryTags:Theory, ttrpg3 Comments on Revaluating RPGs, Abridged

Science & System

Johannes Kepler's platonic solid model of the Solar System, from Mysterium Cosmographicum, 1596. Public domain.

Philosophy of science as RPG theory

Posted byLīber LūdōrumOctober 4, 2021March 21, 2025Posted inTheoryTags:philosophy of science, Theory, ttrpg1 Comment on Science & System

Story & 💿🐴

How narratology can clarify (and confound) discussions of story in RPGs

Posted byLīber LūdōrumAugust 2, 2021January 12, 2022Posted inTheoryTags:discourse, narrative, narratology, story, Theory, ttrpgLeave a comment on Story & 💿🐴

Table Talk

TTRPGs as communication & communication in TTRPGs

Posted byLīber LūdōrumFebruary 15, 2021June 6, 2022Posted inTheoryTags:communication, rpg, Theory, ttrpg3 Comments on Table Talk

Machina ex Machina: Theoretical Perspectives on Adira & Fen Slattery’s The Machine

Matthew Tilly's floor plan of the air loom

At the intersection of schizophrenia, self-replicating automata, and lolcats

Posted byLīber LūdōrumNovember 9, 2020January 12, 2022Posted inCriticismTags:Adira Slattery, Fen Slattery, influencing machine, memes, self-replicating automata, The Machine, TheoryLeave a comment on Machina ex Machina: Theoretical Perspectives on Adira & Fen Slattery’s The Machine

The Typology and Sociology of Play

A reference sheet for Roger Caillois’s Man, Play and Games

Posted byLīber LūdōrumOctober 29, 2020January 12, 2022Posted inReference, TheoryTags:games, play, sociology, Theory, typology2 Comments on The Typology and Sociology of Play

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