Ten Things a Game Should Have from the Blog “I’m Talking Games”.

Innovation in Games from Keen and Graev’s gaming blog.

Mapping Perfection: talking about user-created maps in games. Escapist Magazine discusses their place and their use.

So, basically, these three articles cover first, the basics a game should have, second, the innovation a game CAN have, and third, the user-created input that a game MIGHT have.

So when will games be ready for a “warranty of implied merchantability for a specific purpose”? Were people hanging around outside Henry Ford’s offices in in 1928 saying their car did not meet their ideas of what the “ideal transportation model” would be? How about 1938? Is this a silly question? Is it a silly question because the software industry feels it is the only industry that can still (after thirty-some years of making money from consumers) say “if it is opened, you can only exchange it for the same software”?

Do you believe there is not a basic standard of usability that a video game must live up to? How about online MMOs? If not now, when?

Comments welcome and expected.

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