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Video Games Killed the Video-Game Star: Tom Bissell on Dead Island – Grantland

2011-09-14 ~ Mark

On the dangers of over-gamifying games. (via)

There is, anyway, only one story worth telling in a zombie game, and here it is: See those zombies over there? You should probably get away from them.

Video Games Killed the Video-Game Star: Tom Bissell on Dead Island – Grantland

2011-08-10 ~ Mark

Gamification is marketing bullshit, invented by consultants as a means to capture the wild, coveted beast that is videogames and to domesticate it for use in the grey, hopeless wasteland of big business, where bullshit already reigns anyway.

Ian Bogost (via austinkleon and douglas wolk). I like when I get to use my bullshit tag. See also Bogost’s Gamasutra feature on exploitationware. Naming is a powerful weapon.

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