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Cheers Troy, I am interested in games that could cause change from feelings, attitude, love, hate, jealous, power and more. My attitude for video game when I was young was ultimate epic games and these days I like the simplistic interaction or I don’t see the interaction or I don’t feel part the game. It is the same for me making art and the art work I like is more simplistic approach but the meaning is more. I have always wonder if life is game. Reward is how we feel and maybe the money represent how successful we are. When we both were designing Ripon Video game we tried create a certain feeling for the player. I think we failed and succeeded.

Long time go game designers question if the gamer could cry while playing the game and now video games have made us cry. I see the clique in that. However, I am still intrigue about that. Few years ago in Japan Pokemon casues seizures (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1683&dat=19971218&id=RacaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ES8EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6794,3840553) for 600 kids. From this I have always wonder if there is video game out there that can do Hypnotism. I just imagine if the game goes crazy and screws with our brains. You know me I have dark sense humor. But the Hypnotism game idea could be a good. I would use it before I go flying. LOL. Also, the Angry gamer video I am intrigue (http://rhizome.org/editorial/tag.php?tag=game
). I like the strong emotions that these kids present. However, I question it.

From the art part you talk about. I agree. I agree we stink at commercialism and we both get bored very fast. I think because we both artists and we started to critize the meaning of it. I have certainly done that when I work as commercial artist (photography, game designer, video and others) and I happy I can leave that world and comeback. Art idea for video games is said to be old topic in the interactive world. I see more mimicry and easy predictions what designers call art for video game. Is it the feeling the art in video game. Sure it could. In culinary world they talk about how the food looks like (the art form). But taste is not really describe as an art form. But sometimes it is. Maybe in future they create tasting video game. I guess I am interested in what interactivity will be in the future and what does it mean.

As we continue making new art/video game/animation for uh…game we both agree simplistic approach and something we have define. Is it visionary, interactivity, feeling or something else.