{"id":10917,"date":"2023-07-26T12:38:08","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T10:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/26\/pushing-buttons-games-let-us-live-to-the-limits-of-our-mortality-and-beyond\/"},"modified":"2023-07-26T12:38:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T10:38:08","slug":"pushing-buttons-games-let-us-live-to-the-limits-of-our-mortality-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/26\/pushing-buttons-games-let-us-live-to-the-limits-of-our-mortality-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushing Buttons: Games let us live to the limits of our mortality \u2013 and beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this week\u2019s newsletter: It\u2019s an act of subversion to design a game that tries to get you to think about death, but titles that embrace it can be wonderfully freeing<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s a line in Gabrielle Zevin\u2019s brilliant novel Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, a multilayered love story about game designers<\/a>, that shows remarkable understanding of video games and what they do for us. \u201cWhat, after all, is a video game\u2019s subtextual preoccupation if not the erasure of mortality?\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a connection that Zevin draws several times in her fabulous book, the contrast between the endlessly replayable, replaceable lives of video games and our own real, distressingly fragile mortal lives.<\/p>\n

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\nIn this week\u2019s newsletter: It\u2019s an act of subversion to design a game that tries to get you to think about death, but titles that embrace it can be wonderfully freeing
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\nThere\u2019s a line in Gabrielle Zevin\u2019s brilliant novel Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, a multilayered love story about game designers, that shows remarkable understanding of video games and what they do for us. \u201cWhat, after all, is a video game\u2019s subtextual preoccupation if not the erasure of mortality?\u201d
\nIt\u2019s a connection that Zevin draws several times in her fabulous book, the contrast between the endlessly replayable, replaceable lives of video games and our own real, distressingly fragile mortal lives. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this week\u2019s newsletter: It\u2019s an act of subversion to design a game that tries to get you to think about death, but titles that embrace it can be wonderfully freeing \u2022 Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here There\u2019s a line in Gabrielle Zevin\u2019s brilliant novel Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and …<\/p>\n

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