Re: Only a game? Merely symbols? (was: Amoral behvaiour in IF)


Tue, 20 Jun 1995 14:50:27 -0400

I've held back on posting this idea in the hope that someone else would
offer it (and spare me the risk of a poor memory), but here goes:

Return to Zork did try to address the amorality issue of the earlier Zork
games. The game has an explicit set of moral rules, which are pretty
close to real-world morality (no stealing, for example)--and if you break
the rules, you are punished.

Most of the discussion on this newsgroup about Return to Zork as a game
has been negative.

Is there a relationship between these two paragraphs?

Greg Koster This is what the Lord asks of you, only this:
gek@maclaw.law.cuny.edu to act justly
to love tenderly,
and to walk humbly with your God.
(Micah 6:8)