[url=][/url]For those of you who do not know Chris Crawford was a major game designer of the 70's 80's and early 90's. He gave a lecture at the GDC (Game Developers Conference) in 1992 about computer gaming as art and the gaming industry. It is very interesting (though it might be a little academic for some people's tastes). Also to put things into context since the video does not have the intro, but the "dragon" is his metaphor for using gaming to create art. Also keep in mind that this speech was how he announced he was leaving the gaming industry.

You can see it on You Tube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_04PLBdhqZ4

it is in 5 parts and all are on You Tube.

If you have time for an interesting speech about gaming, take a look at it and let me know what you think. (be warned he is a little eccentric in the speech)

(I loved the part about hardcore gamers complaining, it made me laugh. Oh and I think you can see Sid Meier the crowd at the end)

Thanks for sharing that, will watch when I have more time. Sound quality is bad though.

You might like this too, from GDC 2009: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA_0_dSD3-Q

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Thanks for the link. That was very interesting. Sometimes I think it was a little overly harsh on the game industry at times but I think there is an overall point to it. But I think they are right that it is a mistake to think that every that can be done with games has already been done. If that is not giving into stagnation I don't know what is :)