{"id":9207,"date":"2023-03-07T11:39:52","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T10:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/07\/finally-australia-sees-video-games-are-important-but-it-cant-be-only-because-they-make-money\/"},"modified":"2023-03-07T11:39:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T10:39:52","slug":"finally-australia-sees-video-games-are-important-but-it-cant-be-only-because-they-make-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/07\/finally-australia-sees-video-games-are-important-but-it-cant-be-only-because-they-make-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, Australia sees video games are important \u2013 but it can\u2019t be only because they make money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Albanese government promises to treat video games as art \u2013 but developers must also be treated like artists, and supported to experiment, fail and flourish<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/newsletters\/2019\/oct\/18\/saved-for-later-sign-up-for-guardian-australias-culture-and-lifestyle-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you head to the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (Acmi) in Melbourne right now, you can visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acmi.net.au\/whats-on\/out-of-bounds\/\">Out of Bounds<\/a>, an exhibition that \u201cexplores the limits of videogames\u201d. There you can watch The Grannies: a documentary about four game developers and friends in Melbourne who, while playing as a posse of elderly cowboys in the Playstation game Red Dead Redemption 2, went looking for adventure in the glitchy out-of-bounds areas beyond the game\u2019s map.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside The Grannies at Acmi, attendees can play <a href=\"https:\/\/ianmaclarty.itch.io\/red-desert-render\">Red Desert Render<\/a>, which was made by game developer Ian MacLarty, one of the four Grannies. Red Desert Render takes the experience of exploring weird, glitchy virtual spaces. It\u2019s not dissimilar to many of MacLarty\u2019s other games, which are often free, very Australian, and experimental, like <a href=\"https:\/\/ianmaclarty.itch.io\/southbank-portrait\">Southbank Portrait<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vertexmeadow.xyz\/player.html?l=4323e132ba064da8bd2d\">Ned Kelly<\/a>. But MacLarty is also a highly successful commercial game developer: his next game, <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1532200\/Mars_First_Logistics\/\">Mars First Logistics<\/a>, takes all these strange spatial experiments and turns them into a highly-polished commercial product.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/newsletters\/2019\/oct\/18\/saved-for-later-sign-up-for-guardian-australias-culture-and-lifestyle-email?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2023\/mar\/06\/finally-australia-sees-video-games-are-important-but-it-cant-be-only-because-they-make-money\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1fdafdfb3be9917c6b00f1b551fcc209ef9086b0\/555_342_1503_902\/master\/1503.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=5d62516a0cb85026827e7d3c7f0664ea\" title=\"Finally, Australia sees video games are important \u2013 but it can\u2019t be only because they make money\" \/>The Albanese government promises to treat video games as art \u2013 but developers must also be treated like artists, and supported to experiment, fail and flourish<br \/>\nGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email<br \/>\nIf you head to the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (Acmi) in Melbourne right now, you can visit Out of Bounds, an exhibition that \u201cexplores the limits of videogames\u201d. There you can watch The Grannies: a documentary about four game developers and friends in Melbourne who, while playing as a posse of elderly cowboys in the Playstation game Red Dead Redemption 2, went looking for adventure in the glitchy out-of-bounds areas beyond the game\u2019s map.<br \/>\nAlongside The Grannies at Acmi, attendees can play Red Desert Render, which was made by game developer Ian MacLarty, one of the four Grannies. Red Desert Render takes the experience of exploring weird, glitchy virtual spaces. It\u2019s not dissimilar to many of MacLarty\u2019s other games, which are often free, very Australian, and experimental, like Southbank Portrait and Ned Kelly. But MacLarty is also a highly successful commercial game developer: his next game, Mars First Logistics, takes all these strange spatial experiments and turns them into a highly-polished commercial product.<br \/>\nSign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Albanese government promises to treat video games as art \u2013 but developers must also be treated like artists, and supported to experiment, fail and flourish Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email If you head to the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (Acmi) in Melbourne right now, you can visit Out of Bounds, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/07\/finally-australia-sees-video-games-are-important-but-it-cant-be-only-because-they-make-money\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Finally, Australia sees video games are important \u2013 but it can\u2019t be only because they make money<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9207"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}