{"id":1271,"date":"2011-02-07T10:44:28","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T16:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booklifenow.com\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2011-02-07T10:44:28","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T16:44:28","slug":"accessibility-depth-dominic-crapuchettes-on-gaming-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booklifenow.com\/2011\/02\/accessibility-depth-dominic-crapuchettes-on-gaming-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Accessibility & Depth: Dominic Crapuchettes on Gaming & Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to game designer Dominic Crapuchettes<\/a>, everyone should play games.\u00a0 Not just writers.\u00a0 Crapuchettes is the founding president of North Star Games<\/a>, which produces the games Cruzzle<\/em>, Wits & Wagers<\/em>, and Say Anything<\/em>.\u00a0 Crapuchettes contributed an essay on Apples to Apples<\/em> to Family Games: The 100 Best<\/em><\/a>, the anthology by James Lowder<\/a> that inspired this Booklifenow.com series on gaming and writing.
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Are designing games and writing similar?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Dominic Crapuchettes:<\/strong> My approach to writing, composition, and designing games are all very similar.\u00a0 I think about the first time someone experiences my work.\u00a0 My goal is to make my work as easily accessible as possible, and with as much depth as possible.\u00a0 Depth creates a long term relationship with the person and accessibility means the work is more likely to touch a lot of people.<\/p>\n

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Is there a game every writer should try? <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Dominic Crapuchettes:<\/strong> I wouldn\u2019t say that it is more important for a writer to try a game over any other person, but here are some games that I think everyone<\/em> should try: Celebrities, Wits & Wagers, and Apples to Apples.<\/p>\n

I suppose if there were a game that writers in specific should try, it would be Werewolf<\/em>.\u00a0 You will need to play the game about five times with roughly the same players in order to get a great experience.\u00a0 This game is in the genre of what I call \u201cpsychological thrillers\u201d.\u00a0 This means the players will experience an emotionally charged drama.\u00a0 It\u2019s cool to see how different people react in different circumstances.<\/p>\n

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In what ways does playing games enhance your creativity?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Dominic Crapuchettes:<\/strong> Games can enhance many different aspects of a person\u2019s humanity from their intellect, to their social skills, to their emotions, to their dexterity.\u00a0 Playing games can enhance a person\u2019s creativity as well.\u00a0 Say Anything<\/em> and Eat Poop You Cat<\/em> are probably two of the best games on the market for helping the creative juices flow.<\/p>\n

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Jeremy L. C. Jones <\/em><\/a>is a freelance writer, editor, and teacher.\u00a0\u00a0He is the staff Interviewer for <\/em>Clarkesworld Magazine<\/em><\/a> and a frequent contributor to <\/em>Kobold Quarterly<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 He teaches at <\/em>Wofford College<\/em><\/a> and <\/em>Montessori Academy<\/em><\/a> in Spartanburg, SC.\u00a0 He is also the director of <\/em>Shared Worlds<\/em><\/a>, a creative writing and world-building camp for teenagers that he and <\/em>Jeff VanderMeer <\/em><\/a>designed in 2006.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to game designer Dominic Crapuchettes, everyone should play games.\u00a0 Not just writers.\u00a0 Crapuchettes is the founding president of North Star Games, which produces the games Cruzzle, Wits & Wagers, and Say Anything.\u00a0 Crapuchettes contributed an essay on Apples to Apples to Family Games: The 100 Best, the anthology by James Lowder that inspired this Booklifenow.com series on gaming and writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booklifenow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booklifenow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booklifenow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booklifenow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booklifenow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/booklifenow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1273,"href":"https:\/\/booklifenow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions\/1273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booklifenow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booklifenow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booklifenow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}