Comments on: The narrow definition of experimental http://www.gamedrinkcode.com/blog/2010/02/22/the-narrow-definition-of-experimental/ One man's ramblings about games, development, and booze Mon, 09 Jan 2012 06:45:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: vazor http://www.gamedrinkcode.com/blog/2010/02/22/the-narrow-definition-of-experimental/comment-page-1/#comment-406 vazor Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:20:02 +0000 http://www.gamedrinkcode.com/blog/?p=408#comment-406 Indeed, the comment from two years ago "took the easy way out and made it a puzzle game" has stayed with me as I delve deeper into the experimental scene. Even on experimentalgameplay.com itself almost half are not really experimental. The winner of "art game" was no more experimental than tying your shoelaces (it was of course a great art game, though). I think there are those of us who have noticed and are trying to produce truly experimental games- and those of us who succeed need to be recognized. Indeed, the comment from two years ago “took the easy way out and made it a puzzle game” has stayed with me as I delve deeper into the experimental scene. Even on experimentalgameplay.com itself almost half are not really experimental. The winner of “art game” was no more experimental than tying your shoelaces (it was of course a great art game, though).

I think there are those of us who have noticed and are trying to produce truly experimental games- and those of us who succeed need to be recognized.

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