Each game mechanic is its own concept-artifact with its own power. Rules, goals, challenge, rewards, ambition, status, metaphor, visualization — this is the alphabet of reality. Once you've learned the alphabet, you start reading the world. The magic isn't in any single mechanic — it's in their synergy.
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