I just need to write, really.<\/p>\n
An exercise in creative outpouring. No reason other than expressing myself in words strung together to be reinterpreted by other folk at other junctions in their life and the world. Hopefully the people that see the words can comprehend them and they can see that there is further meaning behind the words. And by that I kind of\u00a0mean the concept that two words together mean more than just two words on their own, on a simple language comprehension and a philosophical level.<\/p>\n
e.g. Project Zomboid<\/p>\n
Project: An undertaking to achieve an overarching goal.<\/p>\n
Zomboid: A creature\u00a0with a zombie-like appearance, or characteristics.<\/p>\n
Project Zomboid: An undertaking to educate and enlighten a new generation of slackers to the beauty and complexity possible in computer gaming whilst attempting to incrementally improve society<\/p>\n
See? It’s so much more than just the two words together, and I don’t just mean purely by the word count of the definitions as given by The Dictionary of Paul.<\/p>\n
Beauty? Society? That’s a bit much, isn’t it?<\/p>\n
Probably, but they do say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I never really understood that phrase, I mean I thought death, confusion and sleeping rays were in the eye of the beholder, but then it’s been a while since I played any table top RPG, so who am I to judge.<\/p>\n
But beauty –\u00a0as in carefully crafted pieces of art that interlock together to form a coherent world. Suburbia rendered in 2.5 dimensions, with perfect palettes\u00a0taking us to\u00a0xcom-tacular isometric heaven. Pixel-jockeying of the highest calibre hitting the audience smack bang between the eyes and telling them to live and breathe in\u00a0a brave new\u00a0world. Because a computer game does not need to behave according to the rules of the real world in order to convince the brain that what it’s seeing is real – it just needs to behave coherently within the rules that the game sets itself. And with the experienced and talented artists at hand, it does just that.<\/p>\n
And society, because the developers do not do what they are doing because it is a guaranteed cash cow\u00a0promising them\u00a0Benjamin Franklin’s rich nourishing milk\u00a0– far from it. The developers do it because they\u00a0have an urge\u00a0to create this fictional dystopia, and they want to do it amongst friends.<\/p>\n
And they don’t want to mislead us, or\u00a0lie to us as ‘consumers’, even when they don’t like us – as any student of absolute morality will tell you – the customer is not always right. They are\u00a0baffled by those of us with financial exchange \/ entitlement\u00a0issues and\u00a0if\u00a0one carries out the most cursory of research before investing\u00a0in the Project (which is highly recommended for any such activity, by the way) it is clear that Indie Stone work for Indie Stone. That is the reason Indie Stone exists.<\/p>\n
So by swearing at us in the company of friends, and delivering a constant stream of hard work and honesty founded on experience and brilliance, they act as role models for us all.<\/p>\n
In fact, I’m sure I can see Society’s cheeks glow with a subtle arousal as she is patted ever so slightly back to the right course.<\/p>\n
But\u00a0can the behaviour of these 5 games developers from the UK and Canada single-handledly re-mould the ever so slightly sick western political system to one where honesty and personal values rule?<\/p>\n
Unlikely, but for those of us following the development closely\u00a0we’ll be\u00a0hoping upon hope – that lemmy101 will remember to keep swearing on his twitter feed.<\/p>\n
www.projectzomboid.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I just need to write, really. An exercise in creative outpouring. No reason other than expressing myself in words strung together to be reinterpreted by other folk at other junctions in their life and the world. Hopefully the people that … Continue reading