I have spent most of this past week at the Game Developer’s Conference, and have realized that the main cultural topic of conversation here is “Dammit, we are not movies, we are games. We are, in our own right, a legitimate part of the means of cultural production!” All this accompanied by much indignity and metaphorical foot stamping.<\/p>\n
Which is all fine, I guess. But it leave me wondering why such defensiveness is necessary. After all, people in the movie biz don’t spend a lot of time arguing that movies are not computer games.<\/p>\n
The only thing I can conclude, if I can make an analogy, is that computer games are to movies more or less what Canada is to the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have spent most of this past week at the Game Developer’s Conference, and have realized that the main cultural topic of conversation here is “Dammit, we are not movies, we are games. We are, in our own right, a legitimate part of the means of cultural production!” All this accompanied by much indignity and … Continue reading “We are not movies”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7962"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7963,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7962\/revisions\/7963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}