Ideas for Game Clones to Code (2012)
I love that none of these involve shooting people.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.Part of me thinks we should drop the pretext of a "Gaming Industry" and just start calling it the "Murder Simulation Industry".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 have to 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.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.