Please be careful with general statements about art when talking about this specific case. The Path is a horror game. As such, the pleasure it offers is naturally a bit upside down . I don't believe art needs to be upside down . In fact, as a genre-thing, the horror ...
I agree. We are in fact particularly interested in stories that have been part of culture s for a long time, and how their meaning, presentation and interpretation shifts over time. Fascinating stuff.
I believe this is a temporary problem of a medium that hasn't developed its proper language yet. Obviously Lantz's types of games will continue to exist as they always have, long before computers. They are the traditional play experiences and many videogame designers would do well to move back closer ...
I have explored this issue almost two years ago: http://tale-of-tales.com/blog/2007/06/25/ten-reasons-why-computer-games-are-not-games And it seems like the resistance was a lot worse back then than the discussion above. I haven't changed my mind in the mean time. I totally agree with Mr Sylvester that videogames are not the same as other games. ...
Adam, a lot of people agree with you that an artist should try to express what they think. We just don't. Instead, we follow Duchamp's view on the artistic experience when he calls it a kind of electricity that happens between the work and the viewer. This is how we ...
