Gameplay Notation Wednesday, March 08, 2006

The Lost Garden is a blog by a professional game designer who has deep and interesting article about his idea to create a notation for expressing how a game plays, much like musical notation can express melodies.

On my first dive into the topic, I latched onto the use of musical notation to express complex melodies. After pounding on buttons in my last session of Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time, there was an eerie parallel with the rhythm of rewards in a typical game. The bloops and bleeps of the various attacks and power ups seemed remarkably close to a strange form of music. What would they look like if we were able to write them down like music?
—"Creating a system of game play notation", lostgarden.com

The post is here if you wanna check it out. Or you could just roll your eyes and wonder why I bother to post this stuff.