okay upcoming posts

[stepnix]

With my homebrew out i want to get back to adding more to my site's theory section. Goblin post was good, so maybe next I can expand some of my past thoughts on social mechanics... or I can write something up about "scenario," that what-are-we-doing-here part of a game. I don't know where exactly I'd go with that one, other than my typical distribution-of-effort thing, but it's something I keep coming back to lately. idk what's the hot new design discourse

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[tresfoyle]

I dunno if this is strictly hot-and-new but a thing I've been picking up on lately is a growing contingent of OSR and post-OSR developers (e.g. Zedeck Siew and the team behind Sundang) putting forward some actually pretty compelling arguments for largely discarding the conceit of "genre emulation"—it's an oversimplification to call it a "simulationist revival," I think, but it feels like we're approaching conditions where we might expect to see an explosion of dev work that, by wedding post-Disco Elysium sensibilities to post-OSR ones, ends up basically reinventing the design priorities of Traveller. Dunno if that's something you'd have feelings about but it's sure been on my mind.

[stepnix]

Is this the same scene associated with new simulationisn here or a slightly different one?

EDIT: nvm looked into Sundang and I think i was on the wrong track here. iiiiinteresting

[tresfoyle]

honestly looking at this and looking at some of the frontended principles & procedures established in Sundang you can definitely tell that even if those authors haven't *read* New Simulationism, they know a lot of the same theory underpinning it and have drawn some similar conclusions, to the point of some overlap in language when it comes to the idea of the world-fiction reigning supreme.