[...] skill based makes it that much harder for the player who started late, or is less skilled.  Read: Raph Koster’s “The game without treadmills”.  So, how to solve this problem?  For one, hats are seen as some sort of status symbol in TF2 [...]

[...] skill based makes it that much harder for the player who started late, or is less skilled.  Read: Raph Koster’s “The game without treadmills”.  So, how to solve this problem?  For one, hats are seen as some sort of status symbol in TF2 [...]

[...] than concrete concepts. There’s Van Hemlock’s splendid post inspired by Raph’s equally splendid post itself inspired by a rather neat Slashdot comment. If only I’d posted that /. comment for a [...]

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[...] a good article on the topic here: http://www.raphkoster.com/2007/04/23/the-game-without-treadmills/ This particular bit for you programmers out [...]

[...] They’re not mutually exclusive. You need both. [...]

[...] apart what games are. Can there be, for example, a role playing game without the “treadmill” as Raph Koster puts it on his blog (who also sniffs it in the air), a board game without the board or an online game without the [...]

[...] linked to a post from Raph about how some games are akin to a ‘treadmill’. Rather than post a World of [...]

[...] labels on a spectrum than concrete concepts. There’s Van Hemlock’s splendid post inspired by Raph’s equally splendid post itself inspired by a rather neat Slashdot comment. If only I’d posted that /. comment for a truly [...]

[...] was reading this article on Raph’s website (link to full article) where he was talking about the question ‘why haven’t more people looked into making games without [...]