Music To My Thumbs: Transcribing Braid  By RPS on June 20th,
2012 at 12:00 pm.    Now, we may not need a short form, we’ve
managed to get by without a gaming equivalent so far, but that
is not to say it couldn’t be useful. Notation has advantages for
both musicians and composers that aren’t available to us: the
complexity and the pace of a piece can be judged in a glance;
(it has lots of symbols; then it’s fast and complex). It’s easy
to share ideas, tweak sounds, and write down ideas in brief:,
you don’t need to detail the entire concept of the piece to
communicate what one musician needs to do, a single instrument’s
part can be written in isolation. It’s also possible for someone
to lay out an entire score; (instructions for many musicians
playing different instruments) and see how all the mechanisms
lock together.  Also, as I’ll show later, in developing a short
form, we open up possibilities for our games which are difficult
to accomplish currently.  The same can be done for games.  The
seeds of the idea