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]]> http://playpit.ch/2009/08/essay-everyday-hacks-why-cheating-matters/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Infovore » Links for August 17th Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:59:54 +0000 http://playpit.ch/?p=102#comment-11 [...] Playpitch » Essay: Everyday Hacks: Why Cheating Matters "Cheating is hacking for the masses. It is one of many opportunities to ‘soft programme’ our technologies and culture without heavy reliance on advanced knowledge. Cheating creates an opportunity to play with design, think about it, and tinker around. By effectively unbalancing a game, we can move behind the screen to consider games through their limits. If you put too many assets on screen with the Sonic debug mode, the system would freeze and crash. In this it taught young players an important truth about games; that they aren’t infinite systems, but rather careful gestures reliant on an economy of elements. Cheats of the kind seen in Sonic fostered a generation of gamers to be both critical and respectful of what games are. Knowing that the level is one configuration among many comes from a point of view only afforded through cheating." David Surman is writing more about games, and it is a good thing. (tags: games cheating hacking mastery sonic systems manipulation rules ) [...] [...] Playpitch » Essay: Everyday Hacks: Why Cheating Matters “Cheating is hacking for the masses. It is one of many opportunities to ‘soft programme’ our technologies and culture without heavy reliance on advanced knowledge. Cheating creates an opportunity to play with design, think about it, and tinker around. By effectively unbalancing a game, we can move behind the screen to consider games through their limits. If you put too many assets on screen with the Sonic debug mode, the system would freeze and crash. In this it taught young players an important truth about games; that they aren’t infinite systems, but rather careful gestures reliant on an economy of elements. Cheats of the kind seen in Sonic fostered a generation of gamers to be both critical and respectful of what games are. Knowing that the level is one configuration among many comes from a point of view only afforded through cheating.” David Surman is writing more about games, and it is a good thing. (tags: games cheating hacking mastery sonic systems manipulation rules ) [...]

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