Shouldn the Threefold Model cover results and/or goals?
Well, no. That certainly isn’t meant to dismiss those. I think analyzing those would be a profitable point of view of role-playing. On the other hand, I think that this won’t look much like the Threefold Model. If you accepting for a moment that decision-making is the basis of the Threefold Model, it is clear that there are other ways of analyzing games. You can look at objective results rather than subjective intent — like the transcript of events, impact on the players, and so forth. This is difficult because most games aren’t recorded and the participants’ accounts often differ. Still, it’s useful to look for. You can also look at larger goals: i.e. what are the processes trying to accomplish? I started on a look at larger goals in an old Forge thread, “Classifying by Social Function”. However, it was pretty incomplete.
