Fuck you, you neoliberal ghoul. I lost my fucking job, and probably my career in the industry at this point, in no small parts because you squandered the potential of the French games industry.
Videogames are just PR for him. I think he knows most french gamers have the political education of a mussel and plays around that. He’s been flip flopping between “videogames bad” to please old people (who are by far the ones with the biggest turnout at every election) and some low effort praises when something good happens.
I wish the Clair obscur people refused the stupid award he gave them a while back. That really tainted my image of them.
He’s full of shit, please do not trust any word coming out of his mouth. Last week he wanted to create a dragon ball z theme park with saudians, but didn’t have the copyright stakeholders approval.
Meanwhile, he cut by 80% the already tiny envelope for school renovations and push for far right financial backing by French banks, lied about firefighters allocations… And so on and so on.
PS: we have Paris Games Week already btw
It blows my mind how most countries have the giant douche (Macron) vs turd sandwich (le pen) formula in play simultaneously across the globe. Its almost like we all use the same economic system or something.
And the moment Le Pen wins, it’ll be all undone, money will be redirected to some foreign AI company, and culture will be destroyed.
Hungarian here, our culture was pretty much eliminated by Orbán and his cohorts, for not making nationalist enough stuff glorifying at least the expies of the Orbán cabinet. But I knew many people at that time, who thought increased nationalism from Fidesz will push people to consume more national products, except they started to immediately gatekeep what national products were though telling people what is a “Hungarikum” - which itself was astroturfed by booze manufacturer Zwack Zrt. (it literally came from their product, Unicum’s name - yes, it’s called that), to make Hungarians drink their overpriced products more, all while Hungary struggles with an alcohol problem.
videogames are part of our culture
I don’t get what that means. Was there a threshold of french video games that needed to be met before it could be considered “part of our culture”?
I think he means that the other way around, he’s trying to remind everyone that France does have video game companies (Ubisoft for one), not that this is a new thing.
Yes actually, most people working in and around the French ministry of culture are extremely snobbish about any art form more recent than film.
Video games are more than part of our culture, they extend into areas far beyond just entertainment.
Games are a way of understanding dynamic, hopelessly interdependent systems whether in an attempt to predict how dynamic situations with multiple actors with differing objectives will turn out or better understand history as a living dynamic thing that happened to occur one way (see Cole Werhle’s board game Pax Pamir 2e or John Company as perfect examples of this).
The evolution of good game design and the general progress of most games getting better UI systems over time as designers figure out how to best represent complex situations and choices to players is also FAR more important than just a nice consequence of iterative design, it is the groundwork for good architecture in the software realm in terms of how software is experienced by humans.
longer thought
This is why I find the dismissiveness of virtual interactive experiences as somehow lesser to “real” experiences so insulting, video games make us more human by making us able to express ourselves more truthfully, intuitively and vividly in digital spaces… providing entirely new ways of people finding theirselves, which is the most human thing to do! The rest of systems in modern society DESPERATELY need to learn from good video game design and UI principles, and this lame attempt to “gamify” things is such a superficial phoned in movement that I can’t even use the word “gamify” without putting quotes on it… it doesn’t count.
Learning from the wisdom of game design is NOT just making everything into a points system that constantly prods you with rewards and goals like a casino, that is an insult to actual good video game design… but I digress…
The biggest mistake people will continue to make in the early 21st century is to treat the medium of video games as purely an expression of artistic pursuit, it is that and so much more. I mean… look at Ukraine… who do you think has been training to fly FPV drones for hours and hours in abstracted contexts that nonetheless drill the same core competencies you need to be able to fly FPV drones aggressively?
What pushed the development of graphics cards for years and years before anyone thought to apply them to machine learning?
It wasn’t war, it wasn’t business, it was video gaming
I got a book recommendation for you, I really liked this one: Games: Agency as Art
Games, then, are a unique social technology. They are a method for inscribing forms of agency into artifactual vessels: for recording them, preserving them, and passing them around. And we possess a special ability: we can be fluid with our agency; we can submerge ourselves in alternate agencies designed by another. In other words, we can use games to communicate forms of agency. Games turn out to be part of the human practices of inscription.
Hell yeah thank you!
“(…) “cinema and the moving image.” I assume that last bit is a just-missed translation of “motion picture,” because that’s clearly what the conference is about (…)“
I rarely read something this stupid
Videogames always has been culture, anything produced by human beings is culture, not necessary consider art, althrough i consider.
Hopefully the advertising showcase called the “video game awards” will fade into obscurity by a credible festival.
That’s what I’m talking 'bout.
