I've found Chris Crawford's definition of games to be the most practical foundation of game design: a goal-oriented activity, containing active agents to interact with and play against. Takahashi's ideal game, by this definition, would be more a play-thing than a video game. Though his thoughts do raise an important ...
Actually the reason I enjoy referring to games as art is BECAUSE the definition is so broad. Do you think when Michelangelo first sculpted David he first decided which method he would continue to do all of his art in The beauty of art is how shapeless it is. I ...
I felt Braid somewhat lacked the merging of story and game. Namely due to the text between levels. I have not yet purchased the game though am more than willing to if it does come out for PC but my friend has bought and played through the game, and does ...
Philosophy and video games...it's like they were made for each other. Probably not coincidentally either. The problem with this idea is that, much like in reality, it is much easier to achieve disjunctive cooperation than it is to achieve conjunctive play. The lack of communication alone is enough to create ...
