Ruth Mottram on Nostr: Apropos last night's post on the flattening of culture and algorithms, this piece on ...
Apropos last night's post on the flattening of culture and algorithms, this piece on locally produced video games often played by tens of millions of (apparently invisible to researchers and industry) fans is also highly relevant:
"The first video games were technological experiments and hobby projects, shared freely in disks, code sheets and magazines around the world. Corporations formed over time, but this hacker culture never went away — it carried over…
All of those are continuously erased by the “industry” side, which enforces a formalized, sanitized, easily digestible and — especially — fully monetized concept of video games."
https://felipepepe.medium.com/the-gentrification-of-video-game-history-dfe11f1e08ae
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/113777610599177341
"The first video games were technological experiments and hobby projects, shared freely in disks, code sheets and magazines around the world. Corporations formed over time, but this hacker culture never went away — it carried over…
All of those are continuously erased by the “industry” side, which enforces a formalized, sanitized, easily digestible and — especially — fully monetized concept of video games."
https://felipepepe.medium.com/the-gentrification-of-video-game-history-dfe11f1e08ae
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/113777610599177341