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Game Innovators Pick Their Favorite Titles

Posted by simoniker on from the academia-now-interesting dept.

Thanks to Ludology.org for pointing to the Georgia Tech game morphology project, which, although still in development, has asked famous creators and academics for their favorite games of all time. Interesting picks include Warren Spector's kudos for Ultima IV ("Wait, you mean games can be about more than just killing things? Whoa! This game, with its ethical underpinnings, changed my life"), Henry Jenkins' choice of Myst ("not a great game from the perspective of game play... [but influential because] it brought some degree of middle class respectability to games"), and Will Wright's picking of Pinball Construction Set ("[a] heavy influence for me - construction is fun.")

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  1. Ultima IV by Xunker · · Score: 5, Funny

    I still play Ultima IV.

    No, I mean _I'm_still_playing_Ultima_IV_.

    I've been stuck in the Stygean(sp) Abyss for about 15 years now.

    This is not a game for playing, it is a game for turning off and avoiding.

    --
    Hilary Rosen's speech was about her love of money and her desire to roll around naked in a pile of money.