any other medium.You've been experimenting

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not as visceral. And there's a lot that you can convey as a visceral experience through interaction that's hard to do in any other medium.You've been experimenting with Runeacape player narrative with your work at Little Text People and Linden Labs. Is it possible to have that sort of solitary, moving narrative experience while playing with other people?I don't see why not. If you're going to do a powerful Runeacape player narrative, then ideally you want to explore in a direction where everybody is having significant agency over what's going on, and it's not simply a matter of the characters each exerting a skill. Runescape GoldIt's not a raid, it's not people teaming up in an RTS or something. It's about your charter making decisions, my character making decisions, exploring why.Our project wasn't really headed in this kind of super artsy direction... which when I say it sounds pejorative, which I do not mean at all. It wasn't meant to be an art Runeacape game, I guess is what I'm saying. But I think there's a lot of potential in the idea of two-Runeacape player or larger Runeacape games to explore the different perspectives that people bring to situations, and the fact that people have different reasons for why they do things. I think that very interesting Runeacape games can be made exploring contact between strongly contrasting world views. Where maybe you come back and replay the Runeacape game from the other side, and that's where you understand the other perspective.Doing emotionally powerful, sophisticated, thematically meaningful material in single Runeacape player is already really hard! So you sort of want to do your beginning level homework first. But I think there is space there.Designers have always had that sort of puppet master problem, of trying to find the balance between leading a Runeacape player down their directed narrative path versus having them feel freedom. It's a problem I don't really think we've come close to solving even in single Runeacape player.I think that'sDeadman Gold