And Brad, I like your take on the game industry… but, then, I always appreciate your writing. It’s always nice to check back into your web world after being away from it for a few months.

I find myself thinking the same way. What’s interesting is that for the longest time beforehand, I didn’t care so much - there were (some) adventure games, and action games, and that was that; it’s only recently that I started thinking about games in terms of their art, or how much art they could offer to the world.

I think that there’s hope as long as we still have the people who were around at the beginning of video games, and who had influences such as tabletop board games or RPGs affecting how they thought about video games. It’s that influence that has kept back video games from becoming purely like movies, and invented its own devices such as elegant charts of information, the text marquee beneath a talking head, and so on.

I also think the problem with resources will be solved in about five or ten years. While large teams with money will almost always provide more production values in a game than a single person, the tools for making games have been improving over time while the end visuals have been reaching the point of diminishing returns; eventually, there will be a tool that does for 3D games what Flash did for 2D games, and who knows what’ll happen then.