(Many thanks to Ray N. for letting me use his art of Pragmata’s Diana for this piece. It was too cute and funny not to share to balance out how miserable the material this article deals with is) Pragmata is a very good, intelligent, emotional and meaningful game. Unfortunately, you…
Read MoreThe discourse around Pragmata reminds us, YET AGAIN, that too few actually treat games as an art form
(Many thanks to Ray N. for letting me use his art of Pragmata’s Diana for this piece. It was too cute and funny not to share to balance out how miserable the material this article deals with is) Pragmata is a very good, intelligent, emotional and meaningful game. Unfortunately, you can’t talk about it without the most rancid culture wars nonsense we’ve seen in the games industry (and that is saying a lot) completely overwhelming that discussion. And people still argue that video games are a legitimate art form. Half of what legitimises an art form as an art form…