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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@jaranta The Searlean critique is bang on, too! I think of the book as a sequel to Jaakko and Markus's dissertations (which they refer to in the book as well) so I was happy with the brief intro to constructionist ludology. But again, as with the extra categories, it felt like constructionist ludology was something you could use to understand the things you find in the book rather than an actual theory to pick up or a methodology explaining how the book was put together in the first place.
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@personamatters @jaranta Re Jonne's footnote 3, indeed they've been actively trying to reframe (reclaim?) ludology for the last decade I think
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@MKarhulahti @personamatters I can see some value in doing that, but I'm not sure we need that. 🤷
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