Why Games Will Sit At The Head Of The Table

@tiedtigerThursday, 3 January 13

My Power 100 WoeThursday, 3 January 13

Games People Are Missing at Almost All LevelsThursday, 3 January 13

Although Games Can Have Enormous ReachThursday, 3 January 13

...And Have A Vibrant Culture...Thursday, 3 January 13

...Medialand Doesn’t Really Understand ThemThursday, 3 January 13

To Them Gamers are Techies, Spods or AddictsThursday, 3 January 13

“Education” Is Often Considered Their Only WorthThursday, 3 January 13

One Day Maybe An “Interactive” Form Of TVThursday, 3 January 13

Mostly It’s About PlaceThursday, 3 January 13

Inspire > Distribute > ExploitThursday, 3 January 13

Video to Game is CommonThursday, 3 January 13

Game to Video is Usually Terrible.Thursday, 3 January 13

This Leads to Some Bad ConclusionsThursday, 3 January 13

"Games Are Immature, But One Day..."Thursday, 3 January 13

"Games And Storytelling Must Converge"Thursday, 3 January 13

“The Future of Games is Narrative-Plus” Thursday, 3 January 13

What is Narrative?Thursday, 3 January 13

An Edited Stream of InformationThursday, 3 January 13

Sometimes for Plot: StoriesThursday, 3 January 13

Sometimes for Compression: HistoriesThursday, 3 January 13

Sometimes Foundational: MythsThursday, 3 January 13

Sometimes Living: ParadigmsThursday, 3 January 13

All Narratives Are ConstructsThursday, 3 January 13

To Process and Idealise ExperienceThursday, 3 January 13

Like So

Event Sparks Emotion

Emotion Sparks Memory

Memorisation Sparks Editing

And Then The Story Is Passed On

Thursday, 3 January 13

Creating a Narrative is a Post-Event ProcessThursday, 3 January 13

But Games Are Played In The MomentThursday, 3 January 13

They Are Sources of EventsThursday, 3 January 13

Not Narratives At AllThursday, 3 January 13

The “Mature/Converge” Lens Is Wrong

The functionalist holds that there is some distinctive need met by art in our lives and that it is in terms of this need that art is to be defined. While art might meet many interests – for example it might be valued as a financial investment – such interests explain 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

A work of art in the classificatory sense is 1) an artefact 2) upon which some person or persons acting on behalf of a certain social institution (the artworld) has conferred the status of candidate for appreciation.

- Aesthetics: An Introduction

Functional Institutional

Thursday, 3 January 13

Games Belong HereThursday, 3 January 13

Like SoThursday, 3 January 13

Sports Generate EventsThursday, 3 January 13

Sports Breed EmotionThursday, 3 January 13

Emotion Becomes MemoryThursday, 3 January 13

So Sports Generate StoriesThursday, 3 January 13

Their Secret is the “Magic Circle”Thursday, 3 January 13

Sports Have a Sense of TheatreThursday, 3 January 13

This Happens With Other Kinds of GameThursday, 3 January 13

Streetfighter Amazing ComebackThursday, 3 January 13

Poker TV CoverageThursday, 3 January 13

E-SportsThursday, 3 January 13

ViralsThursday, 3 January 13

Review CultureThursday, 3 January 13

Spin-off CultureThursday, 3 January 13

But This Not Happening on TVThursday, 3 January 13

Video Has Become DemocraticThursday, 3 January 13

The Magic Circle Can Be VirtualThursday, 3 January 13

Games Are Seen More As “Functional” NowThursday, 3 January 13

No Longer The Red-Headed Step ChildThursday, 3 January 13

They Are "Generative Culture" - Dan CookThursday, 3 January 13

That’s Why Games Breed “Whales”Thursday, 3 January 13

While Medialand Can Only Sell “Files”Thursday, 3 January 13

So Who Really Needs Who Here?Thursday, 3 January 13

The Power 100 Might Become an ObituaryThursday, 3 January 13

How We’ll Win

Forget What Medialand Thinks

Focus on Generating Events

Love Function Over Institution

Keep Connecting

Thursday, 3 January 13