# Longest Solo Map-Making Game of a Lifetime tags: #thoughts Possibly the world's most complicated and longest running solo RPG, even though the player takes no particular role except as creator, and the rules are largely arbitrary and inspiration based.  Yet it's clearly, "a game," to him. It is a process of play, of exploration, of feeling for what is appropriate at any given moment within the limitations and constraints of some predetermined guidelines. It has no win state. It has no end state. The only positive gratification comes from the actual process of play and observing the artifacts created along the way. It satisfies the most basic of requirements for a game as defined by Syd Mead: a series of interesting decisions. Frankly, I'm a little jealous.