“The only difference between programming and games is that games have win conditions.”

  • @voodooattack
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    51 year ago

    What about MMORPGs? Where do they fit in this classification? I’m genuinely curious.

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      There’s predefined goals and rules.

      It has win and lose conditions, for example failing a raid.

      It can technically be completed even if that takes an insane amount of time and effort. You can therefore fail to complete it.

      So you could argue it is a game quite easily. You could also argue it’s a set of distinct games within a framework.

      But things get a lot more messy with digital games compared to classic games.