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How Can You Define A Game?
Posted by R.P.G. on 2005/03/30 09:49:10
This is one of the semi-irrelevant questions I've asked myself a few times--how can you define a game? What is a game, and what is not a game? Why?

Related to this, what makes a word processor different from a game? Or, how is an operating system different from a game? Hypothetically, if an operating system becomes pleasurable to use, has it become a game?

And taking it even further: are boring, cookie-cutter games (like Enter the Matrix) actually still games? Are they still games because the developers and publishers have defined them as being games?--or are they just useless graphical applications with no entertainment value and therfore not a game?
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Huhmm 
#1 posted by BlackDog on 2005/03/30 11:16:44
An operating system is fundamentally different from a game or a word processor. No matter what you add to or take away from any of those programs to make them fun or bloated or whatever, there are things which make them an operating system (abstraction of underlying hardware), a word processor (it processes words, duh) or a game.

Just because "game" is a broad enough concept to include things which can also fall under OS or WP doesn't mean that in any way those concepts can be the same thing.

As for the definition of "game", suit yourself. 
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