Archive for August, 2006

Towards Collective Culture
August 12, 2006

I’m posting something that’s not directly related to games, but in my beliefs needs to get spread all over the world so we can understand how our culture is changing and we’re becoming witnesses of a silent revolution.
This is a conference from Lawrence Lessig (Creative Commons evangelist) on how we’re rediscovering culture as a collective [...]

The Beauty of Play
August 4, 2006

We have one game (Dance Dance Revolution) and two kinds of players. The one that believes in the beauty of play, and the other one who believes in the beauty of winning.

It’s fascinating to discover how a simple game can express the classical dicotomy between culture and [...]

About Cultural Monopolies…
August 1, 2006

Just like in the beginnings of any major art form related to the advances of technology, monopolistic companies are pulling the strings of the game industry. And these monopolies often go for the money rather than the artistic expression, you know, it’s a natural thing for big fishes.
 

Lets go back in history when Guttenberg’s invention [...]