Devs say it's up to players to decide if internment camps are good or bad?! No. The question itself is political!https://twitter.com/cbcnews/status/761590699372449793 …
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If game designers want to include player choices with meaningful consequences they must be willing to significantly de-power the player.
If game designers are not willing to de-power players then their “moral choice” mechanics are reduced to basically meaningless "play style."
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Meaningful “player choice” is severely limited (or non-existent) if the primary way players engage with the game world is by killing stuff.
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Game developers seem to think that “to kill or not to kill” is some kind of deep and morally ambiguous choice for players. It’s really not.
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The point here is that the “player choice" itself is an artificial construct that carries political messages no matter what players choose.
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Games can and should tell political stories but if developers want to do that, they gotta have the guts to present a point of view.
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At the very least game developers need to stop pretending their political allegories and analogies don't carry a political point of view.
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This is one of the most asinine things I’ve read in a long time. Science fiction is BEST when commenting on society.pic.twitter.com/oRwAz8MxuR
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All of the greatest science fiction *has something to say* about humanity, tech and society. It has a political point of view to convey.
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Can you imagine if Kurt Vonnegut was like "After reading Slaughterhouse Five if you think war is awesome, that's perfect!"
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How ludicrous would it be if Margaret Atwood was like "After reading A Handmaid's Tale, if you think misogyny is cool, that's perfect!"
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A) All art has a point of view. B) The point of view is what makes it art. C) Pretending that it doesn't have one devalues the medium.
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The gaming industry often presents an “apolitical prospective” on political issues as the height of sophistication, when it’s anything but.
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This insistence on "moral relativism” or “moral nihilism” is a blight on public discourse. Game developers do us no favors by promoting it.
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I remember reading a great book about exactly this issue by
@miguelsicart; The Ethics of Computer Games. Definitely recommend.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Undo -
Good games have de-powering and empowering parts of any choice you make. I trust that Deus Ex will do a good job of that.
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