http://ludic.colophon.org/ludus/215/ "There is no greater threat to the state than the play of children." (Plato) Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:57:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://ludic.colophon.org/ludus/215/comment-page-1/#comment-60 Gabriel Sat, 12 May 2007 23:51:36 +0000 http://ludic.colophon.org/ludus/215/#comment-60 Mmm, Juul talks about progressive vs. emergent play a bunch. He has a sort of litmus test to determine whether a given game is progressive or emergent--if a walkthrough can be provided to complete the game. Given that simple litmus test, ilovebees is certainly progressive (just go onto the wikis and follow the story/steps/sites/voicemail boxes/etc.) but at the same time, it's very emergent. When those solutions were first discovered, people found their own paths to them and, along the way, they found a whole slew of other random things (ilovebeer was a site that pretended to be a part of the alternate reality, but wasn't actually!). It's a hybrid, fo' sho'. Mmm, Juul talks about progressive vs. emergent play a bunch. He has a sort of litmus test to determine whether a given game is progressive or emergent–if a walkthrough can be provided to complete the game. Given that simple litmus test, ilovebees is certainly progressive (just go onto the wikis and follow the story/steps/sites/voicemail boxes/etc.) but at the same time, it’s very emergent. When those solutions were first discovered, people found their own paths to them and, along the way, they found a whole slew of other random things (ilovebeer was a site that pretended to be a part of the alternate reality, but wasn’t actually!). It’s a hybrid, fo’ sho’.

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