That you are reading this news indicates not only that you are a fan of video games, but also that you have assimilated and manage digital tools in your everyday life, even are dependent on them. The subscriber lives on it, so I can imagine how digital prevails over analog in our lives.
But at the same time that you and I, dear reader, live a good part of our time on the Internet and consume leisure products like video games, there are many people that you surely know (family, friends, colleagues) who remain unaware of this form of culture. The most important of our time, in fact, exceeding in economic impact the sum of all those traditionally known as music, cinema or reading.
To understand the world we live in, you have to understand video games, and that means connecting and building bridges between those who experience them on a daily basis with those who, either because of age or cultural mismatch , know nothing of this world except because of worn-out stereotypes or brief notes in the mainstream media. And to establish this dialogue between the generations, comes The century of video gamesof Borja Vaz there Jorge Morla.
In this 200+ page essay, we’ll find some thoughts on the insights I’ve extracted before, and they point to ways forward to reconnect society through culture, and more specifically to video games. Because if we understand the culture we live in, we can understand the world and thus shape the future.
The Century of Video Games will be published by Arpa and published on May 3.