2011年1月27日星期四

That subtle sense of meter can be evoked by video games

That subtle sense of meter can be evoked by video games, he ventured. Atari video games would be ideal for it, he thought. “The whole idea of the Atari just feels like poetry to me,” he said, reveling in “its constrained technical architecture, the way you program it, even the form of the assembly code on the screen — these long thin replica Tissot T22.5.386.41 Ladie's watches codes of data.”He loves the simplicity of the Atari machine and its limitations that put him as a game creator in the mode of a finely crafted and indirectly expressive work in the manner of crafting a haiku or a sonnet.

“It's certainly a very loose analogy,” he admitted of the idea of an Atari 2600 as poetic parchment. “You wouldn't want to hear somebody read Atari assembly code in a poetry jam.”One creates a video game about space marines in war or a replica Tissot T22.1.111.11 Ladie's watches challenger to Wii Sports if one is expecting to make a hit game. One lowers expectations if their muse compels them to make something that is the equivalent not just of writing a video game poem but of doing it for this primitive Atari standard is like writing one's video game poem in Latin.

“You don't expect to be living large, driving your Bentley, from your poetry,” Bogost remarked.Against the winds of technological advance, Bogost looks to A Slow Year to suggest a different direction. “When we consume games, when we talk about ?games, when we make games, we're being sold this line — this line about swiss replica watches technological advancement, that things are always getting better,” he said. “We want more. Here's the new version of the old hardware. And here's the new intece for the old hardware. Here's the new game that's bigger and badasser than the last game, that's the next number in sequence after the franchise name in its title.

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