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"Tell the creator what you thought. It would mean a lot more to them than it does to Nintendo." is a good prompt to say I had a real Pushamo phase in 2021 and it was one of my stress relief outlets in peak pandemic isolation, so thanks for that!

I really like this and am fully on board with resisting a firm interaction/un-interaction split! It’s all one thing!

 Interestingly, and seemingly contrarily, I read this just after reading this piece on Gamesline, which I also liked even though it fully embraces the language of ludonarrative dissonance. To attempt to translate that article’s concerns into your framework, I think the problems people describe as “ludonarrative dissonance” could also be described as cases where a game’s internal contradictions fail to add interesting texture.  Sometimes the contrast between semi-playable setpiece and regular play is awesome, and sometimes it just makes me wish a 30-hour trudge was 27 hours shorter and focused on the riskier textures. 

Hey, thanks for reading it all the same! It doesn't surprise me too much that it's confusing... I wasn't quite aiming for philosophy, but whatever it is is certainly more raw than cooked. I was just getting feelings stirred up by reading others' manifestos, and realized I had some time to try putting those feelings out there in a form of my own before my office job started for the day. That was satisfying to do, though yeah, whether it produces any feeling for others remains to be seen.

Part of me is tempted to go back and polish, but I may just leave it as is as an encouragement for others to make even meandering things.

Speaking as someone with minimal RPG-playing experience (they're just so long and I've been burned by some bad ones), I'm really loving these sketches. They're highlighting some of the textural possibilities of the genre's language that aren't immediately evident to me. 

The ancients were cooking with this one

Beautiful in a lo-fi brutalist kind of way.