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The TriadCity Players' Guide

The Years of the Great Cycle

Thirteen years of exactly 364 days each constitute one Great Cycle. Here are their names, begining with the first year of the new cycle:

Year of Rebirth
Year of the Rat
Year of the Ox
Year of the Tiger
Year of the Hare
Year of the Dragon
Year of the Serpent
Year of the Horse
Year of the Ram
Year of the Monkey
Year of the Rooster
Year of the Dog
Year of the Boar

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We call this "pop music." We call it "mass market." And games are indeed reaching this mass market, and I suppose that to a degree I am fighting the tide in arguing that that is not the ultimate destiny for games any more than it is for any other art form. The art we remember is material that opened up new vistas: whether or not it was popular at the time is largely an accident of history. Shakespeare ws a popular playwright and then was neglected for a couple hundred years. Popularity is not a measure of long-term evolutionary success."
— Raph Koster, A Theory of Fun For Game Design (info)