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05/02/2005 Archived Entry: "The Rhetoric of Game Structure"

A great post on the Playtest blog on the rhetoric of game structure, in relation to Escape from Woomera:

"This may be a little spurious, but pehaps there is an allegory here between my experience of the game and the plight of asylum seekers in my country, in the sense that the machine logic of a computer game is not unlike the cold logic of bureaucracy, it doesn’t make much sense in a human way, but is perversly rational in another."