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Death of the Auteur?

Posted by Zonk on from the who-makes-the-games-we-play? dept.

Thanks to TerraNova, and specifically Timothy Burke, for the article entitled Death of the Auteur. In it, Burke examines the modern reality that games are no longer made by a single person and ponders the meaning of game authorship. "Who is the author of a game? How should we speak of authorship?" What kind of weight does a personal and public apology have when a games authorship is up in the air?

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  1. correct URL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2004/10/deat h_of_the_au.html

  2. Re:VERY Confusing by the+darn · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's essentially a synonym for "Artist," often used in cinematic circles.

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  3. Re:VERY Confusing by 8tim8 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Auteur is French for author. Back in the 60's, French film critics got into the idea that a film could be seen as a product of a single person, not a group of people, and that person was usually the director. Today, we talk about a Quentin Tarentino film or an Alfred Hitchcock film, but back then it was unusual to think of a single person influencing a film with a particular style. So the author of the linked article is using auteur to mean a single person who influences a game with their style, like Peter Molyneux.