http://www.artfulgamer.com/2009/09/04/games-we-can-dwell-within/ in search of the poetic and lyrical in video games Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:11:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.artfulgamer.com/2009/09/04/games-we-can-dwell-within/comment-page-1/#comment-47796 chris Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:02:32 +0000 http://www.artfulgamer.com/?p=513#comment-47796 Hi David. Thanks for reading the article.. I'm a bit rusty with writing as I've been off the saddle for some time. I think that's a succinct way of putting it, although the whole "objective" and "subjective" language is something I've explicitly tried to avoid here as it introduces a whole host of other problems (hence my non-theoretical language in the article). The only thing I would add is that it is not subjective "due to the medium" - game play and game experience is not determinable or objectively experienced because simply because we are human beings. When we play games, read books, watch TV, among other things - we experience them as living breathing people first, and only secondarily as a bunch of formal objective relationships. Games as a style of expressive art serve to create a potential space for experience, but they don't make us experience something specifically. In other words, we have infinite means of expression within a finite expressive space. If that makes any sense. :D And if it doesn't, well, I appreciate your response! Hi David. Thanks for reading the article.. I’m a bit rusty with writing as I’ve been off the saddle for some time. I think that’s a succinct way of putting it, although the whole “objective” and “subjective” language is something I’ve explicitly tried to avoid here as it introduces a whole host of other problems (hence my non-theoretical language in the article). The only thing I would add is that it is not subjective “due to the medium” – game play and game experience is not determinable or objectively experienced because simply because we are human beings. When we play games, read books, watch TV, among other things – we experience them as living breathing people first, and only secondarily as a bunch of formal objective relationships. Games as a style of expressive art serve to create a potential space for experience, but they don’t make us experience something specifically. In other words, we have infinite means of expression within a finite expressive space. If that makes any sense.
And if it doesn’t, well, I appreciate your response!

]]> http://www.artfulgamer.com/2009/09/04/games-we-can-dwell-within/comment-page-1/#comment-47795 David Sahlin Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:41:22 +0000 http://www.artfulgamer.com/?p=513#comment-47795 So, essentially, space in video games appears to be objective in its relationships, but is always subjective due to the medium. So, essentially, space in video games appears to be objective in its relationships, but is always subjective due to the medium.

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