Spotted this review on a spaceship colony sim game and I'm fascinated
Do systems in video games not justify their own existence? Are video games not, themselves, systems for the sake of systems?
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@coriander the latest errant signal takes a not insubstantial detour to talk about the idea of games as pure or at least purrimarily systemic exercises and how that has (apparently) gone very much out of fashion these days
@aescling Yeah that was a real good vid, even if the game it was about looked like something I would hate to play lmao