How Technology Impacts Game Design
Channel: The Game Overanalyser
Date: 2023-08-11

Technological determinism is the idea that technology drives civilization in specific directions, influencing society and culture, setting us on a trajectory. This idea is implicit in a lot of how the gaming industry thinks of itself, cycles of innovation, new platforms, next generations, all falling out of this rhetoric. This video explores how hardware, software and production technologies have impacted the evolution of game design, and what role the human being has in influencing the arc of the medium. 

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