Blog: "The player - The artist?"

[Bek]

Ahh I was a little confused watching that ExtraCredits video - they talk about all the other theories like literature theory and how we should have a game theory, and then went and talked about how the player is a part of the experience...

In lit. theory, there are many many different theories / opinions, some argue that readers are part of the experience and bring their own xp. into the text, others argue they do not, etc etc and it gets more complicated than that. If game theory was going to be anything special it would have to focus more on the interactivity. I think one comment on that video said it would be interesting if games could be designed as a sort of aptitude test, which was an interesting idea.

The concluding few paragraphs were very very interesting, I'm nearly going blind sifting through the comments though Keep up the intriguing posts, I'm going to go looking for more about videogame design philosophy / theory as I feel the medium still has a long way to go.