![]() ![]() The pleasure people derive from games is not dependent on their ability to tell stories. The pleasure people derive from music is not dependent on its ability to tell stories: Tell me the story of The Brandenberg Concertoes. Certainly some types of music - opera, ballet, the musical - are "story-telling musical forms," but music itself is not a story-telling medium. Yes, you can tell a story with music ballads do that. It's not true of music music is pleasing sound, that's all. ![]() I have this argument all the time, and I think Goldberg's statement is balderdash. "That's true of books and theater and radio drama and movies. "Every medium has been used to tell stories," says Eric Goldberg, one of my oldest friends and president of Unplugged Games. Where Stories End and Games Begin by Greg Costikyan ![]()
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