…and speaking of time, look what I stumbled across while catching up on several weeks of emails…
Basically, when the alarm goes off, you get an operator and a result. You need to twist the clock to make the equation make sense or it doesn’t shut up. Feeling tired?
If you’ve ever played Half-Life 2, this is probably a little bit frightening. Fucking manhacks.
And if I can’t get it for Christmas, I’d at least like to see this become an amusement park-style ride at future iterations of, say, PAX.
For what it’s worth, I think both parties are missing each others point.
Art is a tricky thing. Some people believe that art is any production of creation while others believe that “art” and “entertainment” should be separated because there’s something distinctly different between the two. While I’m firmly in the second camp, I get what both parties are saying so let’s try to bridge the gap. Ebert is speaking from ignorance — that’s pretty obvious — but he still has a point. If we separate the two concepts games cannot be art. However, separating the two makes no sense unless we separate “game” from “narrative.”
Design And Content © 2003-2010 Stillnoname under a Creative Commons License