Minecraft Wins Gaming Arts Award 87
An anonymous reader writes "The BBC reports that Minecraft has won a new arts award for games, beating the likes of Portal 2 and Ilomilo. The prize was announced at the finale of the GameCity videogame culture festival in Nottingham. From the article: 'Minecraft does involve traditional staples of gaming, including night-roaming monsters and the chance to fight multiplayer battles online. However, it was ultimately selected on the basis of its mood and ability to encourage gamers to become creative. "It's the broadest definition of art that you can have," said Mr. Hall.'"
Sandbox game is art? (Score:2, Insightful)
Are actual sandboxes also art? Shit, are we artistically doomed to walk in the shadow of beaches?
I could maybe (lot of maybes) accept player creations as art, but this is too far of a stretch.
Re:Legos on a screen? (Score:2, Insightful)
Windows only.
Instant disregard.
Re:Portal 2? (Score:5, Insightful)
I love Minecraft, but I'm beginning to feel Notch is jerking us around. He's introduced new features that are obviously incomplete, with serious bugs. It would make much more sense if he'd redesign Minecraft so that there was a tidy API and a simple way to add third party mods to the game. It's been obvious for some time now that the mod makers are producing more sophisticated and innovative content than Notch is.
Mojang has received tens of millions of dollars in revenue, and Notch is acting like Minecraft is a hobby project he tinkers with in his free time.