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First off, I don’t know anything about art. I consider myself to be having a very cultured day if I can distinguish opera from bluegrass; if someone were to hold a gun to my head demanding the names of 3 famous pointillists or dancers, I would be praying for a jam. Tyla knows me for the savage that I am, and drags me through museums occasionally just hoping that something will stick to me.

With that out of the way, I think that it’s quite possible for games to be art, in as much as art seems to be routinely defined as “appealing to aesthetic sensibilities without pandering to the empty-experiential-calorie crowd”. (more…)

We were too tired to stick around the whole day, and actually I’m now thinking that I mixed up the days for some of these events. Ah well.

Will Wright, Emergent Gameplay, and John Gaeta follow. (more…)

More blathering about the second day of the Game Developers Conference.

Topics include: Carmack’s keynote, a talk on spherical harmonics, and the Experimental Gameplay Workshop. (more…)