Tag: Objectivism

September 16, 2016 / / Essays

For whatever reason, I keep writing about circumstances surrounding Ken Levine. Or podcasting about it. Strange, but for me his public image (if not the man himself, since all I know comes from media outlets) drives me to write things. This interview via USGamer seems just the match to light my giant firecracker of rage! Controlled rage, mind you.

To proceed in a wholly rigorous and somewhat disorganized way, I will list my points via number just for your convenience. Mostly this has nothing to do with game design at all, so steer clear if you want any of that.

April 2, 2014 / / Essays

So I commended pleasure, for there is nothing good for a man under the sun except to eat and to drink and to be merry, and this will stand by him in his toils throughout the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

Do video games need to be “fun”? That the current directors of the Assassin’s Creed franchise ask this question, and then answer in the negative, says a great deal of how we think of “meaning”. Meaning must be serious, must come in a form that is slightly offensive, shocking, or otherwise. I don’t tend to believe that.