I Googled story games and all I got was Porn adds

videopete · June 10, 2019, 02:52:48 AM

I keep seeing references to these things called story gamrs but I dont know what they are
As the title infers, I tried googling it and well, yeah.

S'mon · June 10, 2019, 03:26:21 AM

Quote from: videopete;1091433I keep seeing references to these things called story gamrs but I dont know what they are
As the title infers, I tried googling it and well, yeah.

Funny, I just googled and got no porn & this on 1st page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storytelling_game

Shawn Driscoll · June 10, 2019, 04:33:45 AM

Quote from: videopete;1091433I keep seeing references to these things called story gamrs but I dont know what they are
As the title infers, I tried googling it and well, yeah.

That's what porn is called outside of the US.

videopete · June 10, 2019, 07:04:07 AM

Huh, well I originally thought it was some post modernist self insert fanfiction wankery bastardized form of role playing games.

Itachi · June 10, 2019, 07:23:33 AM

"Story-games" could mean 2 distinct things:

1) Games where participants alternate improvising and telling stories mediated by rules in some way. Ie: Munchausen, Universalis, Kingdom.

2) RPGs that came out of the Forge community from the early 00s, where the rules focus on exploring narratives more than physical challenges, but that are still predominately RPGs (you control an alter-ego and interact with the world through him/her). Ie: Dogs in the Vineyard, Burning Wheel, Primetime Adventures.

The definition that's been used these days is number 1), as the second group has been recognised as RPGs more and more, even having their characteristics bleeding into more traditional games (see the new Kult: Divinity Lost, for eg).

Godfather Punk · June 10, 2019, 12:11:05 PM

For Science, I Googled 'Porn Adds', but this thread didn't come up.

Anselyn · June 10, 2019, 01:22:49 PM

Quote from: videopete;1091433I keep seeing references to these things called story gamrs but I dont know what they are
As the title infers, I tried googling it and well, yeah.

Possibly depends on your own search history?

moonsweeper · June 10, 2019, 01:31:40 PM

Quote from: Godfather Punk;1091476For Science, I Googled 'Porn Adds', but this thread didn't come up.

Since it was For Science...Did you conduct a thorough and detailed investigation?

Razor 007 · June 10, 2019, 06:05:13 PM

Well, was it good porn?

ponta1010 · June 10, 2019, 10:05:56 PM

Aren't 'ads' an abbreviation of advertisements, but adds is either additional or an abbreviation of attention deficit disorder syndrome.
Doesn't interpretation (I) imply that google understands that story games needs something extra and suggests that adding porn to the mix may help your game, or interpretation (ii) imply that story games are equivalent to porn attention deficit (presumably meaning that players find porn uninteresting?

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Godfather Punk · June 11, 2019, 07:00:30 AM

Quote from: moonsweeper;1091486Since it was For Science...Did you conduct a thorough and detailed investigation?

I used a hands-on approach to the Scientific Method. Repeated tests on different devices and with different search engines gave similar results.
I also tried 'ads' and checked for 'gamrs' but the variance in the test results was minimal.

Quote from: Razor 007;1091511Well, was it good porn?

Sorry, that was out of scope for this experiment, which was about advertisements and gaming.
I'll keep this in mind for my post graduate though.

RPGPundit · June 13, 2019, 12:20:59 AM

I love the title of this thread.

videopete · June 18, 2019, 03:48:47 AM

Thank you for the explanation, and some times I will fat finger my phone keypad or just completely derp out on the spelling. Even the less serious responses were fun to read.

Delete_me · June 20, 2019, 01:05:13 PM

Quote from: Anselyn;1091485Possibly depends on your own search history?

(Awkward most likely explanation...)