Friday, October 11, 2002
Of Videogames and Community
The next generation of emergent games will allow game players to shift their priorities, rethink their strategies, and evolve their approaches to play as they play in a collaborative online community.
A Rogue's Perspective on Gaming
Let us hope so. Let us hope that gamers develop new strategies for a viable world order - alternatives based on collaboration and community - and bring them to us in a real world, desperately holding to dreams of peace.
Forgive the unfunnitude of this post. I was watching TV this morning, finding myself forced to acknowledge the inevitability of war with Iraq and the ascendance of the AntiFun. As I've said before, in times like these, public fun is a political act. We will need to take to the streets, with newer games, renewed celebrations of our capacity for joy. Again, the words of Mark Twain: "The human race has only one effective weapon --and that is laughter."
A Rogue's Perspective on Gaming
Let us hope so. Let us hope that gamers develop new strategies for a viable world order - alternatives based on collaboration and community - and bring them to us in a real world, desperately holding to dreams of peace.
Forgive the unfunnitude of this post. I was watching TV this morning, finding myself forced to acknowledge the inevitability of war with Iraq and the ascendance of the AntiFun. As I've said before, in times like these, public fun is a political act. We will need to take to the streets, with newer games, renewed celebrations of our capacity for joy. Again, the words of Mark Twain: "The human race has only one effective weapon --and that is laughter."
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