non fun messages in games
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Endgame: Syria
Forbudt i Apple App store fordi:We view apps different than books or songs, which we do not curate. If you want to criticize a religion, write a book. If you want to describe sex, write a book or a song, or create a medical app. It can get complicated, but we have decided to not allow certain kinds of content in the App Store http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/15/
apple-want-to-criticize-religion-write-a-book-dont-make-a-game/
Endgame: Syria
Hvorfor er det ok å ikke sensurere bøker og musikk, men spill?
Når er det for tidlig å ”leke” nyheter
Brenda Brathwaite
Train (or how I dumped electricity and learned to love design)
Every other medium captures and expresses difficult emotions
http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1012259/Train-%28or-How-I-Dumped
To play
”A free activity standing quite consciously outside ”ordinary” life as being ”not serious”, but at the same time absorbing the player intensely and utterly. It is an activity connected with no material interest, and no profit can be gained by it. It proceeds within its own proper boundatires of time and space according to fixed rules and in an orderly manner. It promotes the formation of social groupings, which tend to surround themselves with secrecy and to stress their difference from the common world by disguise or other means.”
- Johann Huizinga ”Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture” (1955)