Comments on: German Ministry of Foreign Affairs + Computer Games = ? http://www.intelligent-artifice.com/2008/06/german-ministry-of-foreign-affairs-computer-games.html Games & interactive entertainment: design, production, industry and related topics Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:51:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Germany: Games as Culture? « Pixel-love http://www.intelligent-artifice.com/2008/06/german-ministry-of-foreign-affairs-computer-games.html/comment-page-1#comment-3033 Germany: Games as Culture? « Pixel-love Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:19:52 +0000 http://www.intelligent-artifice.com/2008/06/german-ministry-of-foreign-affairs-computer-games.html#comment-3033 [...] Horneman, over at Intelligent Artifice, put up a post a few days ago about Germany considering tax breaks. It seems the discussion there has stalled on the EU “cultural exception”, that allows [...] [...] Horneman, over at Intelligent Artifice, put up a post a few days ago about Germany considering tax breaks. It seems the discussion there has stalled on the EU “cultural exception”, that allows [...]

]]> By: Gareth R White http://www.intelligent-artifice.com/2008/06/german-ministry-of-foreign-affairs-computer-games.html/comment-page-1#comment-3025 Gareth R White Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:38:34 +0000 http://www.intelligent-artifice.com/2008/06/german-ministry-of-foreign-affairs-computer-games.html#comment-3025 Slightly off-topic (but kind of games and politics): There was an interesting panel discussion on the BBC recently about children and play. I initially thought they had a pretty negative opinion about computer games because they explicitly excluded them from their study. However, almost all of the speakers agreed that video game play is a totally legitimate form of play despite it being so modern. As for them being cultural (and particularly for adults) - I couldn't agree more. The BBC show is available to watch on their website, but only if your IP address appears to be from the UK. There are open proxy servers you could use to watch it, and there are scripts available online to download iPlayer programmes too. Google can help with both of these tools. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b00byhz2.shtml?src=ip_potpw Slightly off-topic (but kind of games and politics):

There was an interesting panel discussion on the BBC recently about children and play. I initially thought they had a pretty negative opinion about computer games because they explicitly excluded them from their study. However, almost all of the speakers agreed that video game play is a totally legitimate form of play despite it being so modern.

As for them being cultural (and particularly for adults) - I couldn’t agree more.

The BBC show is available to watch on their website, but only if your IP address appears to be from the UK. There are open proxy servers you could use to watch it, and there are scripts available online to download iPlayer programmes too. Google can help with both of these tools.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b00byhz2.shtml?src=ip_potpw

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