{"id":77,"date":"2007-08-04T18:49:40","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T23:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoi.wordherders.net\/?p=77"},"modified":"2007-08-04T18:54:50","modified_gmt":"2007-08-04T23:54:50","slug":"grognards-invade-terra-nova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoi.wordherders.net\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Grognards Invade Terra Nova"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nice thread on board wargames<\/a> unspooling on Terra Nova<\/a>, a group blog that serves as a hub for the virtual worlds brain trust. They give a shout out to the first piece of online writing I ever did about wargames, “I Was a Teenage Grognard<\/a>,” which originated as a blog entry over on my MGK<\/a> site and which seems to have found a good audience. That same piece garnered an extended reference over at Scratchpad<\/a> a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n

I’m glad to see the interest in board wargames in the mainstream ludology community, and that more and more folks are picking up on what’s seemed obvious to me for a while now, that these games remain relevant and have things to teach designers, players, and game scholars.<\/p>\n

That’s basically the thesis of a longish piece I have forthcoming in Third Person<\/em>, the follow up to the First Person<\/em><\/a> and Second Person<\/em><\/a> volumes already published by the MIT Press, and, like its predecessors, expertly edited by Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin. My chapter, called “War Stories: Board Wargames and Vast (Procedural) Narratives,” argues that it is procedural granularity <\/em>that stimulates what Marie-Laure Ryan has termed narrativity, i.e. a game’s potential to serve as a narrative agent. The volume should be out in late 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"