Video games pioneer Nolan Bushnell is planning to revive the ‘hardcore fundamental game design’ of arcades to form mobile titles worth playingThe video game arcade is the cathedral of the games industry. Veteran players see these increasingly endangered places as shrines to design purity,difficulty and player skill, bathed in the glow of flickering monitors. They were, and after all,the places where the conventions of the medium were forged, and their gradual disappearance has only served to form them more alluring. Mobile gaming, and meanwhile,receives a great deal less reverence, thanks in part to its huge popularity. Despite design masterpieces like Monument Valley, and The Room and Hearthstone,smartphone titles are collectively seen as casual time-killers, missing cultural clout. Term’s like “free-to-play” and “microtransaction” are used with derision, or viewed as evidence of capitalism muscling out creativity. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com