1. Discourse in a Game of Prediction, Strategy, and... Pokemon? Zachary Goodless

2. The “Pokemon” you might remember

3. Even if the game itself stays the same...

5. Formulating strategies for a more competitive metagame

6. Discussions and discourse with other players on what overcentralizes the game (examples of intercommunication!)

7. 493 (soon to be 649) different species, each with endless combinations of moves

8. But some Pokemon are simply better than others... The game could quickly become centered around using and countering a very small set of Pokemon. Doesn't that defeat the point of all the different species?

9. But the community has a solution!

10. Even a game like this can create discourse! Even if the goal of the game is to win, the goal of the community is to allow as much variety in the ways you can! This common goal shows how discourse communities can appear in the most unlikely of places!