Ideas for Game Clones to Code (2012)

Simon is the easiest, in my opinion. Simple logic and graphics.

I love video games, but I honestly cannot comprehend how anyone enjoys being a gamer these days... I watch a lot of game trailers, reviews, and gameplay, and very close to 100% of the games being made seem to be about murdering other creatures. I am often like "wow, that looks like a cool world!" but then I never buy the game because the gameplay is just shooting people in the face.

Part of me thinks we should drop the pretext of a "Gaming Industry" and just start calling it the "Murder Simulation Industry".

Of course of the same people who enjoy murder games, many like to eat food from murder, and live on land that was taken via murder. I start to feel like we have to make murder a super normal, everyday thing like this otherwise we'd have to face how violent we actually are, through our government and corporate intermediaries.

Instead, we just crush virtual skulls and eat anonymous packaged food in our safe little boxes and pretend we're kind, gentle people. Feels good if you can keep the illusion up.

You might as well call the film industry the "Murder Voyeur Industry". Any complaint you have about the games industry can largely be applied towards the film industry, and the same arguments you can use in defense of the film industry apply as well.

The market for people with free time to spend utilizing these forms of popular entertainment is heavily skewed to the younger end of the spectrum. Video games have the additional problem that they were traditionally marketed towards males, but that's changing, as well as the overall demographic numbers, as gamers age and the industry finds the additional consumers that are under served.

In both cases, the independent studios are where you go to find the interesting, less derivative content. I would even go out on a limb and say that the video game industry has a more lively and robust independent segment, as the cost to both build and distribute video games can often be less than for film (or, at least the cheap development of video games serves more niches, very cheap filming is fairly limited by reality in many cases).

> Of course of the same people who enjoy murder games, many like to eat food from murder, and live on land that was taken via murder. I start to feel like we have to make murder a super normal, everyday thing like this otherwise we'd have to face how violent we actually are, through our government and corporate intermediaries.

Well, murder is a super normal, every day thing, and always has been. Almost every animal is either on the lookout for things to murder to eat, or to guard against things trying to murder it to eat, or both. That we find ourselves fascinated with our violent history and our own suppressed and refocused urges and emotions should come as no surprise.

I like to play a top-down 2D space RPG, which has lasers, missiles, and all of that. I want to find a way to justify that playing that game does not make a bad person. Is this possible?

Also, how would one make sense of enjoying movies like Star Wars?