I got a barrage of text messages and emails and Facebook messages this afternoon, all telling me their senders were listening to me on NPR’s All Things Considered. The segment isn’t about me but rather about the broader topic of videogames and depth. The correspondent is Heather Chaplin, co-author of Smart Bomb: The Quest for Art, Entertainment, and Big Bucks in the Videogame Revolution.
You can listen to it on NPR’s website. The transcript should go up there shortly as well.
Comments
Julian Bleecker
Nice piece there. Brief and summative, which is perfect. Like good food, done quickly. The distinction between entertainment/leisure and art/world-changing is apropos. The industry has grown up, and grown conservative, as things that grow up tend to do. Fringes notwithstanding, it’s mass production IMHO. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, it’s just not bound to changing what it does, how it does it, and who it does it with.