A videogame that will make William happy

[Dave Land]

On Jun 6, 2008, at 9:04 AM, Mauro Diotallevi wrote:

> On 6/6/08, William T Goodall <wtg at wtgab.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> The best television is an art form. I don't need to justify art do I?
>>
>> Culture Maru

TV is a video game that doesn't demand anything of you. Let someone else
do all the thinking. Just sit there and suck away at that electronic
teat. And don't even bother to say "more, please", because there is
more and more and more and ...

It's no surprise that they call it television "programming": it's
a virus that runs in your head.

>> The best computer games are art as well.  I've even heard people talk
> about the artistic beauty of a perfectly executed pick and roll in
> basketball.  *Anything* can be done as an art form.

Oddworld Inhabitants, the company behind the delightful Oddworld series,
make such richly textured, beautiful worlds that their next project, set
in the same universe as the games, is a motion picture.

One And The Same Maru