Persuasive Games: Why We Need More Boring Games

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<div class="IPBDescription">gamasutra article</div>Another <a href="http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/1417/persuasive_games_why_we.php" target="_blank">Gamasutra</a> reading I found which brings an interesting point.

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<blockquote><i>I want to keep growing in the video-gaming space. I believe it’s the Wild West of media culture. There’s something magical and abstract about gaming. Games aren’t yet demystified — versus movies, for example; there are TV shows about the making of movies.</i></blockquote>

Ecko’s point is both insightful and ironic. It contains a rather complex observation about the current state of video games as a medium: television is so familiar, it’s not even startling to think about television programming produced solely to discuss other media forms.

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SloppyKisses

wut

KainTSA

Hmmm...definetely an interesting read. I'm not sure if I agree with the points made. If you are doing an airplane safety "game" then its not really a game, more like an interactive movie. Games are by definition something you PLAY (which suggests fun). Movies, on the are hand are something you watch. Their name doesn't suggest whether or not they are fun.