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Archive for November 21st, 2006

Are Games Art Chat Log Available at Manifesto Games

Posted by GBGames on November 21st, 2006

Sometime back Gamasutra posted a news item regardinga discussion about games as art held at Manifesto Games.
Are games art? If not, why not? And if so, why? Is thinking of games as art useful or actually a hindrance for game developers? If games are art, what should our aspirations for the form be?
MIT’s […]

German School Shooting Blamed on Video Games

Posted by GBGames on November 21st, 2006

ZDNet featured a news story titled Violent games blamed for German school attack. A man stormed his school, wounded 27 people, and then committed suicide. Due to this fascination with war simulation and video games, government officials are now calling for a ban on “killer games”. GamePolitics.com has also covered this news […]

Want to be an Indie Game Developer?

Posted by GBGames on November 21st, 2006

Yesterday at 4PM GMT, a number of people were asked to write on the topic of the independent game industry. If you read many game development blogs, you would have noticed that a number of them had the same title: “So you want to be an Indie Developer?”
Among the writers were Dan Marshall of […]