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19.2.01
After another glorious Bear in Berlin (for Danish Dogme Film "Italiensk for begyndere") yesterday, can it be a surprise that the Dogme movement has now made it to the Game world? Gamasutra in beginning of February featured the article Dogma 2001: A Challenge to Game Designers by some Ernest Adams. Even includes 10 Dogme rules for game making....this is one of them:
4. There shall be no knights, elves, dwarves or dragons. Nor shall there be any wizards, wenches, bards, bartenders, golems, giants, clerics, necromancers, thieves, gods, angels, demons, sorceresses, undead bodies or body parts (mummified or decaying), Nazis, Russians, spies, mercenaries, space marines, stormtroopers, star pilots, humanoid robots, evil geniuses, mad scientists, or carnivorous aliens. And no freakin' vampires. Justification: Self-evident. If you find that doing without all of the foregoing makes it impossible to build your game, you are not creative enough to call yourself a game designer. As proof, note that it does not exclude any of the following: queens, leprechauns, Masai warriors, ghosts, succubi, Huns, mandarins, wisewomen, grizzly bears, hamsters, sea monsters, vegetarian aliens, terrorists, firefighters, generals, gangsters, detectives, magicians, spirit mediums, shamans, whores, and lacrosse players. One of the games that made it to the finals of the first Independent Games Festival was about birds called blue-footed boobies, so forget you ever heard of George Lucas and J.R.R. Tolkien and get to work. Hmmh, I wonder if I should step down from my position as wizard in StoryMOO and instead go by the name of Armilla, the Masai Queen?
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