Comments on: Football, IQ, and the World of Mathcraft http://gamedesignadvance.com/?p=1831 Home of New York's Intellivisiongentsia Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:31:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Frank Lantz http://gamedesignadvance.com/?p=1831&cpage=1#comment-29882 Frank Lantz Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:32:15 +0000 http://gamedesignadvance.com/?p=1831#comment-29882 It's fun to consider what it would look like for there to be a video game that operated on the same scale and occupied the same social space as Football. I guess looking at how Starcraft works in Korea gives us a glimpse. But I think there are other versions of that possible future that have less space marines and more poetry. It’s fun to consider what it would look like for there to be a video game that operated on the same scale and occupied the same social space as Football. I guess looking at how Starcraft works in Korea gives us a glimpse. But I think there are other versions of that possible future that have less space marines and more poetry.

]]> By: Iroquois Pliskin http://gamedesignadvance.com/?p=1831&cpage=1#comment-29881 Iroquois Pliskin Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:11:10 +0000 http://gamedesignadvance.com/?p=1831#comment-29881 I like this piece, especially because I am continually fascinated by the way that sport becomes a mirror in which we reflect on our identity as individuals and as a society. (What is america without Jack Johnson, Jackie Robinson, and Muhammad Ali? Just read Neverland or CLR James' Beyond a Boundary if you want a marvelous analysis of the relationship of colonialism and cricket.) I would be very surprised and heartened if any video game came to play an analogous role in our culture. The scientific analysis of sport (the kind that is at issue between Pinker and Gladwell) is so resonant with video games because they are both about the susceptibility of the world and its actors to law, no? The beauty of both is the relationship between freedom and constraint that transpires when we draw the magic circle. I like this piece, especially because I am continually fascinated by the way that sport becomes a mirror in which we reflect on our identity as individuals and as a society. (What is america without Jack Johnson, Jackie Robinson, and Muhammad Ali? Just read Neverland or CLR James’ Beyond a Boundary if you want a marvelous analysis of the relationship of colonialism and cricket.) I would be very surprised and heartened if any video game came to play an analogous role in our culture.

The scientific analysis of sport (the kind that is at issue between Pinker and Gladwell) is so resonant with video games because they are both about the susceptibility of the world and its actors to law, no? The beauty of both is the relationship between freedom and constraint that transpires when we draw the magic circle.

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