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Taxonomy of Powered by the Apocalypse Games, some flawed-but-still-cool research
https://caput-caprae.blogspot.com/2020/12/taxonomy-of-powered-by-apocalypse-games.html
I turned this in as a final for art-history-of-games-ish class this semester, so I thought I'd put it up here for shits and giggles as well....
This is a somewhat-exhaustive taxonomy of PbtA games, tracking ten different systemic mechanical elements in each, and a loose kind of succession between them.
Well, three years later is not "exhaustive" anymore but still a nice overview.