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minus-squarewhotookkarl@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 days agoSome games are Skinner box slot machine dopamine pumps and stores with games attached, some are art, and everything else is somewhere in between.
minus-squaredudinax@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 days agoThere’s plenty of games that are art, but you don’t typically need to spend 100s of hours to appreciate them as works of art. After playing too many games for years, my belief is that even the best games falsely and too easily satisfy our need to succeed at something.
Some games are Skinner box slot machine dopamine pumps and stores with games attached, some are art, and everything else is somewhere in between.
There’s plenty of games that are art, but you don’t typically need to spend 100s of hours to appreciate them as works of art.
After playing too many games for years, my belief is that even the best games falsely and too easily satisfy our need to succeed at something.