“Japan would never produce Doom 3“
Those words came from an interview IdleThumbs staff made to Ron Gilbert. And it got me thinking if afterall there’s a real cultural identity behind games.
This industry has emerged (as it inevitably should) in the rise of the digital era. That means, the era of communications where Globalization has become [...]
Archive for August, 2005
Different Cultures, Different Games?
August 25, 2005
Defining Art Games
August 22, 2005
As its cultural impact increases, the gaming industry is starting to diversify: “Serious Games”, “Mobile Games”, “Casual Games” are some of the new categories that had emerged in the last years to use as a reference for gaming works that reflect particular ways of playing or specific uses of the game.
I would like to propose [...]
Sports from a Game Designer’s view
August 16, 2005
Western culture brought back to life during the XXth century something that seemed forgotten since the Greek times: Sports. It’s undeniable the huge cultural impact these had since the conception of the Modern Olympics by Baron Pierre du Cubertain on Athens 1896.
Sports are usually games that require the use of the body, but games after [...]
The decade’s Scapegoat
August 11, 2005
Jack Thompson’s cruzade against videogames in the USA claims that kids playing GTA have in their hands a “Murder simulator”.
In Argentina a law has been sanctioned proclaiming that “Overexposure to videogames is unhealthy”.
In South Korea, a boy dies after playing a videogame for 50 hours.
At a local newspaper, a kid appears claiming “I got blind [...]
Indie Games Festival
August 9, 2005
Attention Everyone! The Independent Games Festival has announced the Call for Sumissions for all competitors. In the 2006 edition, there will be a new category specially for Mod-Makers along with the Open Category and Web Games specific category.
For more information go right now to indiegames.com.
New articles for the Revolution
August 8, 2005
Two very interesting articles written by Drew Druncan have been added.
I seriously recommend the reading of these so we can keep discussing the
future of Artistic Games:
Games
as Grand Media - Finding our Future
Forming
a new underground game industry
You will now notice that the site is now one big solid community: Articles,
Art Games and Comments are now integrated [...]
A new site is Born!
August 4, 2005
“In the First Dimension, where the dot reigns, freedom is null.
On 2D the plane appears and some creation is now possible: drawings, maps, letters…
The Third dimension gifts us Volume and encourages the artist to build great statues, gigantic churches or beautiful skyscrapers.
Time leads the Fourth Dimension, where objects can now be animated and have life [...]
Updates
August 4, 2005
Well, the site is now working and a community must be built. It won’t be easy, but I believe that there is plenty of people out there who strongly believe Games Are Art, so I hope the site can grow as it should.A new article -Are Videogames Art?- from Chi Kong Lui has been added.Also [...]
Improvements under work
August 4, 2005
Welcome to all the new members that are supporting ourcause of Games Are Art! After reading some of the posts
from the forums, I’m preety much sure that a great community is getting
born.
A review on the brilliant Fa�ade
has been added to the Art Games. Make sure to play it!
I have received some complaints on the site [...]
