The Casual Revolution in RIFT

Over at Joystiq, Karen Bryan is using some of the concepts from A Casual Revolution to discuss what is happening in RIFT: Enter at Your Own Rift: The casual revolution in RIFT.

It’s spot on in terms of picking up what I was thinking when I wrote the book, but then she is using it to discuss MMOs (and the development in a particular MMO),  something that I had not really thought the book to be about.

But that’s what’s so interesting (and a little scary) about writing theory: someone picks up on what you were thinking and applies it to something you hadn’t thought about … and what I wrote no longer belongs to me, but acquires all the meanings that is being put into it by other people. As it should be.