Greg Costikyan takes apart yesterday’s New York Times Magazine cover story on videogames:
| We then have some yada-yada from Bonnel about how games are similar to primitive dance, which is nonsense; the case he could, and should, be making is that play is as fundamental to humans as story, and games thus appeal to a fundamental part of what it is to be human, just as stories do. But this would, of course, sabotage the argument that games are form of storytelling–which I don’t think I need to debunk again… |
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