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slop churned out by a computer can be fleetingly fun or funny, but like, there's no shortage of art being made by human beings that's worth ppl's attention! a lack of art and entertainment isn't a problem we need to solve with computers!

SO true. Good story or a great gameplay element is everything. You don't need a big map, tech, etc.

thinking they've made a game when in fact all they have is a "generic man running through a forest" no sense of place, no sense of journey, no character, no emotional or narrative drive Im not worried about my job anytime soon

It's the mf'ing flaws that make it real.

Approaching them from the standpoint of brute forcing it and just building everything for real is not only folly, its craftless. Anybody could actually build a real life colosseum with a trillion dollars. The point is to imagine it with less than that. To present it with less then it would take.

Most great art is, in one way or another, a conversation between you and the creator. I have no interest in talking about life or love or adventure with a machine.

1,000 times yes As someone who came to games from a decade-plus jaunt in non-games tech let me just tell you that it is actually true in both places, and when they only think about the tech — and not the people using it — things fail

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That’s why I love making games. It’s really alchemy of arts and science

This makes me so sad, both about this great misunderstanding but also the fact that so many studios are owned by tech corporations that absolutely don't understand what they own

I'm not sure that making play areas was the difficult part of making a game. Making *interesting* play areas, though, that's the challenge. Have we managed to reduce interest to an algorithm that we can simply code?* 'Cos I'd love to get my hands on that. * No. We haven't.

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They can barely figure out how to make the most boring straightforward enterprise software without sucking the soul out of everyone involved in the process, it’s sad really. Even regular tech could use more Art and Humanities…

When I was at Amazon games I regularly tried to get across to my manager that making video games is a fundamentally different thing than standard software development

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It's creating a body without creating a soul. That's what this feels like, downplaying the human element.