ferg-- Thanks! and thanks for that great responce. I do think we may have a slight failure of communication however.. I agree with what you said about not us not quite knowing how to "get emotional" about games, but to a certain extent. it's extremely rare that i see content that's not stereotyped. After playing games my…
interesting read, Im busy doing my dissertation on emotional design in video games and Ive learnt alot about why games are the way they are...well according to theorists anyway. It seems that we have so many games which involve performing actions and violence simply because computers are good at that stuff. Developers are…
I'd be inclined to disagree with your theory on World of Warcraft. While there are a lot of missions that equate to pointless busy work (finding farmer Furlbrow's pocket watch is a damn good example and one of the more irritating chains I came across in 63 levels of play), there are also story based missions that are…
Games are a maturing art form, and as such there are tons of people trying to get a piece of this crazy new techno-pie. Lots of crap flooding the medium. But, always, the true innovators will keep innovating. Katamari Damacy. Portal. Shadow of the Colossus. Netwars. Spore. The Sims. Perimeter. Eve Online. Not all of these…