“When Games Matter” Articles

“Leedmees requires patience, foresight, balance, and teamwork. Its a game of both body and mind.”

“Cultivating community takes many shapes–I never would have thought it would involve furiously chopping digital fruits.”

“. . . the more heavily a game relies on story, the more careful that game should be in raising the bar when it comes to skill.”

“… games like Battlefield play like just another shooter where war is fun. To me that is more tragic than what Battlefield is “shielding” the player from.”

“For a game predicated on choice to remind me that choice is a privilege seemed important, necessary even.”

Is there a time when a design choice in game nearly ruined the experience for you?

“I felt for her loss, I felt I understood her pain and wanted to help her.”

“. . . its almost as if the game itself is serving as sort of god-figure pronouncing judgement on your actions.”

“… but changing history cannot actually make the world a better place–to do that you must change the hearts and minds of the people who inhabit it.”

“I no longer possess the vivid imagination I had as a child, but games like ITSP help me keep from losing it altogether.”

“FC2 is a game of non-stop survival, it rarely gives you the time to stop and consider your actions and the results are appropriately tragic.”

” . . . agency free from responsibility only leads to disillusionment.”

“I haven’t submitted a turn in quite some time because of my own pride. I don’t want to finish out games that I am confident are going to end in utter failure.”

“Its worse than all those cheesy Jean Claude Van Damme or Steven Seagal movies you used to think were cool as a kid . . .”

” … I think I will be playing Words with Friends against my mom for a while now.”

“Most of the time Nathan and I play competitive Halo matches shooting people and blowing stuff up … It was a nice change of pace to take turns cultivating a better game world rather than destroying it.”