During 10 days, GamesAreArt.com was completely offline. The hosting company Notwork Solutions suddenly decided that this site’s content did not match their “Acceptable Use Policy”. I had read such policy, and still couldn’t understand why the site went offline. When asking for an official reason, they just told me my site was under Permanent Termination [...]
Archive for December, 2005
Censorship
December 28, 2005
More about Art Games
December 14, 2005
Last week, an interesting article written by Kristine Ploug presented an introduction to art games. I would like to thank her for including our site in the list of links. The article presents very interesting examples on how games could be considered artistic; and also, an interesting list of art games was posted.
I’m personally glad [...]
The Worst Videogame Covers
December 7, 2005
A brazilian site has made a gallery with the worst videogame covers. They’re definitely worth seeing. Cover-art can really transmit what a game is about.. and these ones are just terrific.
Say no more.
Now I wonder: What will happen with videogame covers once the digital distribution channels become the main way to get a game?
It’s the Hardware, Stupid!
December 6, 2005
Considering the new gaming paradigm that Nintendo wants to impose with the Revolution console, and the increasing need of eroding the boundaries between man and machine in videogames: I’ve began thinking about the importance of hardware in games. In the past consoles gave developers a standard on which to model their games, but the new [...]
Books, Books, Books!
December 2, 2005
“…To play a video game is therefore to interact with real rules while imagining a fictional world and a video game is a set of rules as well a fictional world.”
From the new book of Jesper Juul: Half-Real
In our emerging medium, where we are still discovering how it works and the keys of our own [...]
