This article explores what makes local multiplayer special. Furthermore it suggests an experimental setup to translate the virtual game play of SPiN WARS into real physical play.
The term "art" is used in a broad spectrum. I try to quickly summarize what video games are and what they aren't in that regard and what we want them to be. Feel free to comment with your own point of view.
I like this article as an attempt to bring everyone together and a lot of what is being said I agree to. I am not sure if it helps to call everything a game, but you are raising this question yourself in you article.
Your article reflects a lot of my own thoughts. However I can see there theoretically being good working DRM systems that are not intrusive to the customer. It 's just that most systems in place are not like that. For example a lot of the music streaming flatrate services are ...
Hey, I posted a kind-of-reply to your article here http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/ThomasBedenk/20130318/188713/Social aspects of local multiplayer Why SPiN WARS wouldnt work online.php
Radical Fishing, Vlambeer 's Flash game and first version of Ridiculous Fishing, was started on December 7, 2010. Afterwards a very similar game was successfully released on the App Store by someone else. r n r nThere is a link to the back story in the article.
