'I want to make games for people who read Gravity's Rainbow'

[Mark Thibodeau]

That's just mean.

J

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 1:29 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Off to Steam as soon as I read it - thanks!
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> Long ago, teaching at Dalton School in NYC, I put together an experimental
> course on "literature of childhood": books and stories for, about, and by
> children, Including of course Alice in Wonderland & TTLG.
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> The school encouraged multimodal projects, and three of the students did an
> "Alice" board game with very good, painstaking artwork. It was just like
> Monopoly, with locations from the books instead of Atlantic City streets,
> and "bread" (buttered tea-party style) instead of money. So far, so
> moderately imaginative. What made it Carrollian was that landing on two of
> the squares -- or using any of several "get out of jail free"-style chance
> cards -- swapped players: you (Twedledum) took over the Queen of Hearts'
> token and its position, her bread and properties, and she got yours. All
> game tactics, of course, went madly meta, and half the class played it
> obsessively for hours on end to determine if the game could be gamed to
> restore any notion of "winning."
>
> I told the creators that I was awarding an A, a C, and an F, and they could
> roll the dice for them.
>
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk> wrote:
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