Blog - DJ Games part 2 (Bonus Content!)
Tuesday, January 19, 2010Since that previous entry was already getting too lengthy, I decided to add this little addition in a new post instead. I feel it is necessary, because it's amusing and geeky:
While trying to formulate the thoughts that went into writing that prior entry, I explained it to one of my game developer friends using the pirates vs. ninjas debate that forever rages on the internet.
Turntablism is the pirate, and DJing (as I define it) is the ninja.
Turntablism, much like a pirate, is flashy, cool, and cocky-- Pirates were the rock stars of their day, and true turntablists are simply stunning.
So, it's easy to see why DJ Hero and your average person are drawn in to the allure of turntablism...
...but true DJing is like a ninja -- you don't even notice it's there until it's already done it's terrible work on you. It is clever and subtle and cunning in the way the pirate/turntablism could never be...
And that's the problem. People vote for the pirate, because they can see the pirate.
But DJing is so good that people don't even know it's there...
It's like good game design in that way -- you notice bad game design like you notice a hangnail... but if a game designer has done her job right-- you're too immersed to even know just what she's done. But I have a lot more to say on that later... ;)
Labels: DJ games
posted by Brian Shurtleff @ 8:46 PM
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