What is a game prototype?

This little post is a collection of some early morning Saturday thoughts induced by an interesting tweet by Rami Ismail:

Where do the misunderstandings come from? From the very term “prototype” that is ambiguous. Let’s try an indirect minimal definition: a prototype is not just a mechanic idea, a sketch, like this:

but is instead something where we get at least the core game mechanics to run, like this:

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