Play’s Republic

While Juul has moved on to discuss the cross roads of real and not real rules versus play; I found interesting that both him and Gonzalo Frasca made such an attempt to bring together radical narrativists and ludologists.  Frasca - who is said to have coined the word ludology - argues that ludology was not meant as an answer in opposition to narrativisim and further more challenges that there never has been such a divide - since it is impossible to find a pure narrativist in the field.  I found this to answer lots of questions that came popping into my head during the semester.  By seeing the difference as a “how” the story unfolds versus whether a story unfolds or not; we can insert some level of analysis that goes beyond whether the simulation is real or not.