{"id":2100,"date":"2008-04-14T19:12:49","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T23:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/?p=2100"},"modified":"2017-08-18T18:02:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T18:02:35","slug":"video-game-makers-favor-diversion-over-depth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/2008\/04\/14\/video-game-makers-favor-diversion-over-depth\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Game Makers Favor Diversion over Depth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/julianbleecker\/2253084613\/\" title=\"20080208_112417 by JulianBleeckr, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2225\/2253084613_198e76e85c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"20080208_112417\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bogost.com\/\">Ian Bogost<\/a> is featured in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=89631345\">this NPR story on video games<\/a> \u2014\u00a0entertaining diversions or substantial implication-rich forms of creativity? There&#8217;s no one answer, only conversations around this topic. With the video game industry proclaiming that it is all grown up (110%+ growth in the last year, etc), the &#8220;industry&#8221; will decide for itself what video games become, what their role will be as cultural artifacts, and what the larger public considers them to be.<\/p>\n<p>Cobbling together a few choice bites from Bogost, I get this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nArtists have a long tradition of pushing the status quo, but not game designers, despite being important culture makers of the 21st century&#8230;I&#8217;m not sure the game industry wants to see games as an art form. I think they want to see games as a primary form of entertainment..Art is about changing the world. Entertainment is about leisure.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>About sums it up. Reflecting on this, it helps me understand my confusion over teaching in an MFA program for video games. The fine print clarifies things \u2014\u00a0it&#8217;s actually an interactive entertainment program that happens to give out an Master of Fine Arts. I think the entertainment meme wins out, swaying the &#8220;changing the world&#8221; aspect of art and swapping in the creation of fine leisure products.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Bogost is featured in this NPR story on video games \u2014\u00a0entertaining diversions or substantial implication-rich forms of creativity? There&#8217;s no one answer, only conversations around this topic. 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