I made this for work on Monday. It’s not really what I should be doing, spending an hour of time tweaking wordpress themes when there are people to manage but new idea comedy blogs wait for no man. I’m half considering switching this blog over to that theme. It’s a nice one.
Joshua Brentano deserves credit for the idea and has been working for me to update it regularly. Lots of people sending in very awesome maps. BoingBoing just linked to us.
It is mad fun. As such.
Jessie Scanlon of Businessweek has a nice round-up of some of the interesting things happening on the fringes of the traditional gaming market which, strangely enough, might end up meaning that there’s more of a “mainstream” market there than in the Xboxes & PlayStations of the world.
Ultimately, I think it all depends on your definition of traditional gaming. If gaming is shooting aliens, big breasted heroines or even following down a near-linear path towards a larger goal, then you’re probably looking at a semi-limited market which will grow with those that grew up with gaming.
So yes, you’ll ultimately get the game that makes you cry and things like Halo will continue to mint millions as have traditional entertainments for thousands of years. This is just the natural evolution of our new entertainment tools.
However, if you broaden that definition of gaming to include the idea of “virtual play” or even further to the idea of “virtual life”, both of which are deeply rooted in the fundamentals of games, then the market for gaming is virtually limitless.
Potentially every social exchange we’ll have in the future will be influenced by the rules of games.
Also worth noting in this article: Raph Koster has a new company called Areae that I hadn’t heard about. And it sounds awesome.
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