Comments on: Get Your Will Wright Fix: Gaming is a Form of Time Travel

By: Patrick Dugan

Patrick Dugan — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 03:22:11 +0000

The Sims isn’t really what I’d call a “very human-centered, emotional game”. Its actually a very mechanical, behaviorist take on human beings, which is somewhat satirical in its suburban commercialized context.

Socially oriented games (and non-games, don’t forget those) are largely virgin territory, and I do think it’ll take people with more of a balance between emotional intelligence and systems intelligence.

By: Jesper

Jesper — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:39:56 +0000

It’s a bit of a cliche, but isn’t there a slight tendency that people who are very much into systems are not that much into emotions and vice versa?

(I say this as a programmer.)

By: Aubrey

Aubrey — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 16:56:40 +0000

Yep! And why not? Consciousness, emotion, etc. are all forms of systemic emergence, after all.