[...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RaphsWebsite/~3/172129820/http://www.raphkoster.com/2007/10/19/gamasutra-defining-games-raph-kosters-game-grammar/Back at AGDC, I did a huge interview with Gamasutra. After much transcribing (and fact-checking) pain, they have posted it up, and I find that it is heavy on game grammar stuff, industry shift stuff, and even a digression on whether or not the patent system is evil. [...]

Piercing the Veil, Achieving Orbit in the Gaming Industry…

Having read Raph’s interview on Gamasutra it pushed a train of thought that’s not entirely related, but there were points in the interview that spawned the below series of thoughts and comments.
 
Now I’m not going to give all sorts …