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Different Games is cool & this theme is cool, but there is a part of me that chafes at this bit of the open call 2018.differentgames.org/arcade/Permalink Look on archive.org
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if our weird & broken & not-fitting-into-the-same-monolithic-conception-of-what's-good games are worthwhile, it is not because the company that controls a good chunk of the market deems them soPermalink Look on archive.org
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ugh, i queued up another tweet or two about this, but it got lost. twitter. anyway: as the open call says "We have the power to redefine what games can be and the power to expand our understanding of what “good games” are."Permalink Look on archive.org
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found it: if we need Valve to tell us we're cool to be cool, we're not cool. we're only cool if we think us telling ourselves we're cool is enough (yes, we might need Valve or similar to make a living doing this stuff. but that's very different from making something worthwhile)Permalink Look on archive.org
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but also: this is not to put this open call in particular on blast. it's an attitude that seems pretty endemic, and not one i'm entirely free from. but let's focus on building the places we want to live, not on impressing or persuading or defeating the monoliths.Permalink Look on archive.org
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and... also, yeah, this open call seems pretty good? i've heard decent stuff about Different Games. seems like they're happy to run games from people who can't be there in person, too?Look on archive.org