Comments on: The Game Industry’s Fiery Resistance To Its Own Theory

By: How to Get Six Pack Fast

How to Get Six Pack Fast — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:53:18 +0000

The style of writing is quite familiar . Have you written guest posts for other bloggers?

By: Thomas Grové

Thomas Grové — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:12:55 +0000

Nice. This reminds me of when people complain that Obama is an elitist. What’s wrong with being elite? What’s wrong with being an armchair philosopher? Often times people of lesser ability perceive someone of greater ability as being pretentious, when all they’re really being is themselves or honest or natural.

By: James

James — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:49:30 +0000

It all sort of implies that people are forgetting that there are people playing the games, and that people themselves are more complex than any software engineering or business problem. Take the people out of the equation, then why do the games exist?

In the end, the touchy-feely aspect of game design is about human interaction and behavior, what makes people feel a certain way, think a certain way. There are certainly philosophical and psychological aspects to it, and like those, I don’t know that it’s possible to make a grander unified theory of game design, any more than it’s possible to do the same of humanity…

But people certainly shouldn’t be shunned for trying.

…Or for babbling (like me).