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By: State of the Blog '09 | The Game Critique

State of the Blog '09 | The Game Critique — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:59:04 +0000

[...] know anything I could say about the nature of my being a critic I already covered earlier this year. So I wont go into any manifesto talk, but rather talk about some of my better writing [...]

By: State of the Blog ‘09 | The Game Critique

State of the Blog ‘09 | The Game Critique — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:49:13 +0000

[...] know anything I could say about the nature of my being a critic I already covered earlier this year. So I wont go into any manifesto talk, but rather talk about some of my better writing [...]

By: Jordan Magnuson

Jordan Magnuson — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:52:15 +0000

“This is a great thinking-out-loud post, Eric.”

I agree. I think it’s easy for people to read a blog like this (or any of the other fine examples on your blog roll) and see the writer as arrogant and pretentious, when that is not the intent at all. I’ve only recently discovered your blog, and I really appreciate your thoughts, and the “journey” you are on. Who ever arrives anywhere, anyway?

Best wishes,

Jordan

By: Joe Osborn

Joe Osborn — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 18:08:52 +0000

Sure — it was something I put together to illustrate the basic concept that there were several means of writing about games. Of course individual critics move around over time and the image itself is a snapshot of my impression of a particular state of affairs mapped onto an abstraction I had just begun testing. (: But I’m glad it was sympathetic to your divisions of art. The presentation I linked to above gives some context to the picture and explains the terms, and hopefully justifies why I placed certain authors where I did at the time.

By: Eric Swain

Eric Swain — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:50:40 +0000

@Joe Osborn I’m glad some one took credit for that graph. I have no idea where it came from and has been sitting on my desktop for so long I have no idea when I save it. I don’t know if where the critics fall are all exactly right ,but the graph is a neat corolary to the four divisions of art I talked about.

By: Joe Osborn

Joe Osborn — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:37:23 +0000

Just wanted to mention that the graph of where a couple of game critics fall on a particular axis was something I drew up for this talk last year (alongside this one on the semiosis of games). Glad to see it's propagated some, but I can't claim that it's totally canonical, current, or correct. I just hope it's a useful pair of axes and a starting point for conversation!

By: Simon Ferrari

Simon Ferrari — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 05:19:07 +0000

Eric,

I’m glad QWERTY’s dead, your writing is ridiculously better than it was roughly a year ago, and I’m fairly certain the person who made the “final” comment you speak of is an ass-hat with a profoundly myopic view of how to talk about games based on reading one book by a ludologist who himself admits that he’s doing it all wrong. That is all.

By: Ben Abraham

Ben Abraham — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:23:57 +0000

This is a great thinking-out-loud post, Eric. There are a lot of theorists who have suggested that we are always “becoming” and never really arrive, Delleuze and Guattari in particular. I hope your can soon start to feel the journey is fruitful, even if it you do never “arrive”!