Comments on: meaning, for a moment https://letterclub.games/2023/04/05/meaning-for-a-moment/ Letters about game design Wed, 05 Apr 2023 21:58:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 By: Droqen https://letterclub.games/2023/04/05/meaning-for-a-moment/#comment-255 Wed, 05 Apr 2023 21:58:22 +0000 https://letterclub.games/?p=514#comment-255 P.S. as i wrote the first draft of what would become this letter (at the time it was entitled “wielding weapons”) i heard this lyric from the song Cruel World [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmb1dDB2tak]:

“I used to see beauty in people
But now I see muscle and bones”

my feeling… is that… i want to make sure we remember to see beauty in games, not its muscle and bones. can we ever step back from the edge and do that without ceasing to be artists?

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