Ideas for Game Clones to Code (2012)
I love that none of these involve shooting people.<p>I love video games, but I honestly cannot comprehend how anyone enjoys being a gamer these days... I watch a lot of game trailers, reviews, and gameplay, and very close to 100% of the games being made seem to be about murdering other creatures. I am often like "wow, that looks like a cool world!" but then I never buy the game because the gameplay is just shooting people in the face.<p>Part of me thinks we should drop the pretext of a "Gaming Industry" and just start calling it the "Murder Simulation Industry".<p>Of course of the same people who enjoy murder games, many like to eat food from murder, and live on land that was taken via murder. I start to feel like we <i>have to</i> make murder a super normal, everyday thing like this otherwise we'd have to face how violent we actually are, through our government and corporate intermediaries.<p>Instead, we just crush virtual skulls and eat anonymous packaged food in our safe little boxes and pretend we're kind, gentle people. Feels good if you can keep the illusion up.