Submissive Tyrants Welcome

Paul Cunningham · 2000-06-28T23:19:45

- The Game Designer is a Submissive Tyrant - We decide what games will be made whilst obeying the desires of the Human. We work out what''s good for a game and what''s not only to realise that it all fits into the frame of "if it was wanted". If you''re not submissive to the Human want''s it''s all a matter of time until you''re shoved aside like an old book. Blunt but true! Our real problem is knowing what our masters want. How the hell are we meant to know. They tell us they want originality and we go "ok". They then tell us not to lose the qualities of good games that are around today and we say "sure thing". But they want it done better and they want it now! We use our creativity as our primary tool and polish it with logical thinking. We apply our practical knowhow to work out if "they" will comprehend and enjoy our little master pieces. But what are our master''s really telling us? What is their strongest wants from games? Can they be satisified in general terms? Is there something we''re missing or worse forgotten? Is it right under our noses but we just can''t see it? It irritate''s me when i can''t answer these question''s not because of there seemingly simplicity but we/i ignore it hoping some bright spark will come along and tell me one day. They want to be entertained people and there''s a lot of ways to do it. But computer games are more than entertainment, they are here to give the player the ability to be someone else. To live a different life for a measly few hours a day or week. This is more than entertainment, this is a new existance of mind. How fare should we take them on our beautiful and nightmarish journeys. Are there limits (which we should know of)? Are we risking certain embarresment if we don''t watch out how far we take people on our journeys? We are a fully commercialised research and development industry. What are the perils that face us? Do we want to end up like the genetic engineering industries that have such a bad reputation?

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Started by Paul Cunningham June 24, 2000 10:26 AM

35 comments, last by Paul Cunningham 23 years, 9 months ago

Niphty

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June 28, 2000 03:57 AM

whee, let''s quote!

J

Niphty

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June 28, 2000 04:00 AM

quote:Original post by Paul Cunningham

Original post by Niphty

Paul, how the heck do you do those quotes? lol.. i asked somewhere and never got an answer.. hehe

Yeah, i think a library of game design terms and ideas would be neat, but impossible. LOL
And yeah, we all hafta assume the player in the equation. it''s difficult to do. isn''t that the point of this thread?

J

I don''t think this thread exists Niphty. It''s sort of stuck between real world and virtual world like a rift in time/space. I know.. virtual cul de sac. I''ll have to redo it so it attracts a broader audience.

Warning: Thread Closed Ahead

WE are their,
"Sons of the Free"

Ahh.. i see now. hehe you literally surround the word quote with [ ] with no spaces. and use /quote at the end. WHEE!
And the reply to message button auto-quotes the person''s message. damn, how''d i miss that icon? Thanks Paul and Naz!

Ok, now.. let''s get a good thread going for this.. hehe.

J