🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sat, Nov 28, 2009 12:01 AM UTC:
Rich Hutnik wrote:
I know designers wish
they could create stand-alone games that would get the same degree of
reverence FIDE Chess has. But I believe, unless a community feels the game
is their game, it isn't going to happen.
Who cares if it is ever going to happen? I don't. I have never created a Chess variant with the hope or expectation of gaining anything like the popularity or reverence for my game that FIDE Chess enjoys. You just don't get it, Rich. I create games for myself. If other people enjoy my games, that's fine, and I appreciate the opportunity this give me to play them against other people. But I do not create games for the sake of pleasing or impressing people. The satisfaction I get from creating games is in the intrinsic enjoyment of the creative process and in the sense of self-satisfaction I get from contemplating what I have done and regarding it as good. The appreciation others have expressed for my games is a small bonus, but it has never been why I create games.
Rich Hutnik wrote:
Who cares if it is ever going to happen? I don't. I have never created a Chess variant with the hope or expectation of gaining anything like the popularity or reverence for my game that FIDE Chess enjoys. You just don't get it, Rich. I create games for myself. If other people enjoy my games, that's fine, and I appreciate the opportunity this give me to play them against other people. But I do not create games for the sake of pleasing or impressing people. The satisfaction I get from creating games is in the intrinsic enjoyment of the creative process and in the sense of self-satisfaction I get from contemplating what I have done and regarding it as good. The appreciation others have expressed for my games is a small bonus, but it has never been why I create games.