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Monday, August 3, 2026

8 kinds of fun, the Angry Gm

 https://theangrygm.com/gaming-for-fun-part-1-eight-kinds-of-fun/

He eventually lists them. 

  • I have comments on “the challenge seeker”. For example, a puzzle that takes too long is terrible. 
  • Fellowship… can it extend to NPC joining, like the gnome in Sunless Citadel? Meepo? But why not the Titan in G3? Likes to be more powerful than npc, or just too much trouble or just too many characters?
  • Discovery - i disagree. Discovery is fun. Moral dilemmas suck.



The original  list https://users.cs.northwestern.edu/~hunicke/MDA.pdf

- - geez, they made a mistake right off the bat. Listed Quake, the vid game, and listed Competition under it, but that’s not one of their 8 thingies.  …. I guess maybe their point is that th list of 8 isn’t exhaustive. 

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