Deconstruction

Deconstruction was one of three winners of the RPG section of the 200 Word RPG Challenge in 2016. The others were Stardust by Daniel Adams and Time Travel Thaw by Armand Kossayan:

https://200wordrpg.github.io/winners

The event was organised over several years by Jacqueline Bryk, Marshall Miller and David Schirduan. The broadest possible variety of gamers pitched in as readers, judges and givers of prizes and hundreds of people were able to take a crack at designing games over the short form.

The word ‘deconstruction’ has come to mean breaking an idea down in order to understand it. The intentions of philosopher and activist Jacques Derrida (who coined the term) were somewhat more technical: 

• That is what deconstruction is made of: not the mixture but the tension between memory, fidelity, the preservation of something that has been given to us, and, at the same time, heterogeneity, something absolutely new…

I struggled to understand Derrida when I read him in English and Deconstruction tries to simplify what I could not quite grasp. 

It’s also fun to make silly noises while playing with Scrabble tiles.