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Understanding Videogames (Gaming)

by narcogen ⌂ @, Andover, Massachusetts, Monday, December 17, 2018, 14:12 (1956 days ago) @ Cody Miller

But it’s even worse than journey. Journey lets you explore in three dimensions. This is only two.

To fully understand a video game, we must first be fluent with its art, music, and elements of gameplay, then ask two questions: 1) How artfully has the objective of the game been rendered and 2) How many dimensions is that objective rendered in? Question 1 rates the game's perfection; question 2 rates its importance. And once these questions have been answered, determining the game's greatness becomes a relatively simple matter. If the game's score for perfection is plotted on the horizontal of a graph and its importance is plotted on the vertical, then calculating the total area of the game yields the measure of its greatness.


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