Re: Genre Study 2: Fantasy


27 Apr 1995 17:07:28 GMT

Thus spake MeiTien (meitien@aol.com):
] I have been reading all your posts and downloaded the authorship and read
] that also. It helped me a lot. But, I wonder why there is no mention of
] any asian favored fantasy or subjects? Has IF been focused strictly on
] western cultures due to its highly language dependent art?

Mei-Tien,
I would say that it is far more likely that most IF has been written by
people who have been educated in the west, which means, in general, that
we don't know diddly about the east. Basically our education system is
pretty biased - I cannot recall learning much of anything about eastern
culture and traditions in my education, although in college I did learn
a very little about eatern religions.

So I think I would find some eastern-themed IF games highly interesting
for two reasons, learning (hopefully), and entertainment. Of course,
I am assuming that siad game would be well written...

John
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