Debating politics is probably the most excting form of dialectical gaming. Gaming because it gives us tools we eventually use for our survival in the social world. And even when it’s with bright and smart individuals, it may go beyond the boundaries of reason onto the realms of passion. But the thing with politics is [...]
Archive for the 'politics' Category
Karma Banana
September 4, 2007
Communist Massive Games
August 29, 2007
I have a fetish for communist propaganda. It’s simply amazing how fucked up ideologies are. Juan José Sebreli once described his experience traveling to Mao’s China in the sixties as the witnessing of a collosal work of art. He was shown “the model factory”, “the model school”, and “the model hospital” [...]
World Intellectual Property Day
April 27, 2007
Probably you may not know that April 26th is the day we celebrate Intellectual Property. The date was chosen due to the foundation of the WIPO. And due to the lack of a “Game Developers Day” this was the first time that someone congratulated me on a profession’s date. Not only that: I’ve been kindly [...]
Autopirated?
April 19, 2007
I’ve been feeling a little bit nostalgic lately, and I did a very strange thing: I played my own game, Football Deluxe. It may sound strange, but I think that I haven’t played a full session of that game more than 5 or 6 times in spite of the fact that I coded the whole [...]
A Socialist Game?
December 21, 2006
Two years ago, I’ve made this teaser video for a game project that I had back then. The figure of Che Guevara fascinates me due to his firm beliefs and how he acted according to what he felt was right. He was probably the christ of communism, that atheist religion inspired by the words of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Games with Social Message
February 6, 2006
Political Games Against the Dictatorship of Entertainment
That’s the tag-line that can be found on the Italian website MolleIndustria.it. A collection of games that make a statement on the rampant consumerism of modern societies. I find it particulary interesting the McDonald’s game and celebrate the brave effort to use the company’s name (which obviously they do [...]
Fight for your Rights
November 23, 2005
“Are we just mad because they don’t see Shakespeare in our Transformers?”
Ron, as usual.
At his blog, Ron Gilbert answered back to David Jaffe (game designer of God of War) who wrote an editorial proclaiming that people who write about games aren’t true journalists and that we deserve better critique to our work.
I do believe most [...]
