I run text MUDs - games without any graphics at all - so you’re definitely barking up the wrong tree by accusing me of being a graphics whore.

–matt

I half agree with you. Games are a core form of entertainment / interaction - like literature, theater, film… and we have a multitude of potential genres within games.

“Serious” games seem to sit in a couple of categories:

Non-fiction games, Educational games, Propaganda games, and Documenta-games?

In some sense, we are selling ourselves short as defining games so narrowly - no one does that with writing, film, or theater?

–matt

Reminds of Food Force, which was made by the United Nations World Food Program to teach kids about helping feed developing nations. Sure, it’s a great concept, and the media started going on about how more games should be like it, but no one seemed to mention that it looks and plays like a shareware game from the mid 90’s. The kind you’d buy on a floppy for 5 bucks from Radioshack.

I just hate when parents and media always assume that if a game is blatantly educational, it’s obviously so much more important than an “entertainment” video game.

ARP or APG? You used ARP in the post and APG in the comment.

Either that or I’m completely lost.

Just kidding. The great thing about APG and ARG is that you only have to remember 4 letters but you get 2 three letter acronyms out of them! Efficiency.

–matt