I wrote a review of The Rule Book: The Building Blocks of Games by Jaakko Stenros and Markus Montola. It's a great book about making sense of rules, but leaves a lot questions unanswered. The book is also freely available, if you want read it.
https://jonne.arjoranta.fi/2024/rule-book/
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Heck yeah! I've been waiting for (or maybe hoping for) your take on this book!
I also struggled with the "extra categories" throughout the book but always thought they kind of fit into one of the core categories. It almost felt like the core categories worked as a lens through which one could perceive the extra categories, which is maybe kind of a cop-out interpretation but worked well enough for me.
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At times I wondered if it was a playful joke: announcing five categories and immediately adding like ten more. I'm pretty sure there's a Monty Python sketch like that somewhere.
Sometimes it also felt like several core categories could apply to an extra category. But I never figured out whether I'd missed something or if there really was such fluidity in the categories.
Which is to say your critique is spot on, even if I think the book works pretty well regardless!
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