The Coming Paradigm Shift in the Games Community
Tuesday, 3rd October 2006 Chris Crawford, Game designer and researcher Video stream (rm) Communities do not always change their beliefs in steady increments; sometimes the fundamental paradigms to which the community adheres are insufficient to address new information and must be swept away in a paradigm shift. This process is now well-understood and can be explained as a sequence of steps that members of the games community can easily recognize. The end result of this paradigm shift will be a change from "games about things" to "entertainment software about people". |