When we meet someone in real life, we are essentially playing a game.
Stage 1 is the Greeting Stage. You see someone that you know in the distance, and then you have a choice to acknowledge them or not. If you do acknowledge them, then you have your choice from a variety of greetings: “Hey!” “What’s [...]
…gaming is a superset of all these other forms of entertainment. If people look inside of a game, you’ve got writing, you’ve got music, you’ve got animation, you’ve got actors, stories, almost anything you’ll find in any other form of media, it’s contained somewhere in games.
Will Wright, creator of Spore and The Sims
Are games just [...]
Games have at their disposal the tools of every other media: artwork, music, movement, narrative, and character development. Thus, games should be more than capable of the same feats as their competing media. If a film can make you cry, so too should games be able to make you cry. If a story can cause [...]