Games do not need to "grow up" or become like movies. That is a perception issue, but games actually generate culture rather than exploit it, and should be considered the primary medium of the next century.

1. Why Games Will Sit At The
Head Of The Table
@tiedtiger
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2. My Power 100 Woe
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3. Games People Are Missing at Almost All Levels
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4. Although Games Can Have Enormous Reach
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5. ...And Have A Vibrant Culture...
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6. ...Medialand Doesn’t Really Understand Them
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7. To Them Gamers are Techies, Spods or Addicts
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8. “Education” Is Often Considered Their Only Worth
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9. One Day Maybe An “Interactive” Form Of TV
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10. Mostly It’s About Place
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11. Inspire > Distribute > Exploit
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12. Video to Game is Common
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13. Game to Video is Usually Terrible.
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14. This Leads to Some Bad Conclusions
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15. "Games Are Immature, But One Day..."
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16. "Games And Storytelling Must Converge"
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17. “The Future of Games is Narrative-Plus”
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18. What is Narrative?
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19. An Edited Stream of Information
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20. Sometimes for Plot: Stories
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21. Sometimes for Compression: Histories
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22. Sometimes Foundational: Myths
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23. Sometimes Living: Paradigms
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24. All Narratives Are Constructs
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25. To Process and Idealise Experience
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26. Event Sparks Emotion
Emotion Sparks Memory
Memorisation Sparks Editing
And Then The Story Is Passed On
Like So
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27. Creating a Narrative is a Post-Event Process
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28. But Games Are Played In The Moment
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29. They Are Sources of Events
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30. Not Narratives At All
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31. Functional Institutional
A work of art in the classificatory sense is 1)
The functionalist holds that there is some
an artefact 2) upon which some person or
distinctive need met by art in our lives and
persons acting on behalf of a certain social
that it is in terms of this need that art is to be
institution (the artworld) has conferred the
defined. While art might meet many interests
status of candidate for appreciation.
– for example it might be valued as a
financial investment – such interests explain - Aesthetics: An Introduction
why artworks might be referred to and
appreciated as investments and the like, but
they do not explain why we have the concept
of art and appreciate artworks qua art. The
primary value of art is hedonic, rather than
moral or pragmatic.
- Functional and Procedural Definitions of Art,
Journal of Aesthetic Education 1990
The “Mature/Converge” Lens Is Wrong
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32. Games Belong Here
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33. Like So
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34. Sports Generate Events
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35. Sports Breed Emotion
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36. Emotion Becomes Memory
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37. So Sports Generate Stories
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38. Their Secret is the “Magic Circle”
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39. Sports Have a Sense of Theatre
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40. This Happens With Other Kinds of Game
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41. Streetfighter Amazing Comeback
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42. Poker TV Coverage
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43. E-Sports
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44. Virals
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45. Review Culture
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46. Spin-off Culture
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47. But This Not Happening on TV
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48. Video Has Become Democratic
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49. The Magic Circle Can Be Virtual
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50. Games Are Seen More As “Functional” Now
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51. No Longer The Red-Headed Step Child
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52. They Are "Generative Culture" - Dan Cook
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53. That’s Why Games Breed “Whales”
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54. While Medialand Can Only Sell “Files”
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55. So Who Really Needs Who Here?
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56. The Power 100 Might Become an Obituary
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57. Forget What Medialand Thinks
Focus on Generating Events
Love Function Over Institution
Keep Connecting
How We’ll Win
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