Crawford Lambasts Overly Technical Approach To Games

Posted by simoniker on Monday May 17, 2004 @05:31PM from the you-tell-em dept.

Thanks to the IGDA for its Chris Crawford-authored 'Ivory Tower' column discussing the gap between science and the arts in videogame creation. Crawford, ever belligerent, argues: "Let's face it, the world of game design is dominated by science/engineering people; people from the arts and humanities play a secondary role... the result: a vast wasteland of cold, heartless games, technological works of genius deficient in redeeming social value." He goes on to suggest: "We need educational programs that expose students to equal amounts of technology and art. They should learn to program even as they study Michelangelo, rhetoric and recursion, algorithms and architecture." Do you think this would lead to better, more innovative, socially aware videogames?

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And the answer is... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-17 17:33 · Score: 1, Troll

Do you think this would lead to better, more innovative, socially aware videogames?
No.
Socially aware? Please. Look, it's important to be a renaissance man/woman and experience life broadly. But games are games.
1. Re:And the answer is... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-17 23:54 · Score: 0, Troll
  
  nowadays, Being a renaissance man/woman should not only be Recommended, it should damn near be Required
  
  is the Random use of Capitalisation A Requirement for renaissance Man?