Unfortunately Anna could not make it to class, however watching that video interview of her with Frank Lantz was almost as good in my opinion. First off the fact that the interview goes for about 90 mins, to me is a testament of how in depth the interview was and how good it was. At the beginning of the interview Anna was asked to read a section of her book in which she lists a variety of things one could make a game about and the biggest idea I got from that was, well you can basically make a game about whatever the hell you want! I somewhat agree with this but, I believe it opens the doors for an epic flood of bad games. By bad games I mean those that are, as Anna put it "ostracized" for not being normal. I guess what I am trying to say is that if you make a game about whatever you want then you will inevitably end up with games floating around that are probably going to never be played because they are weird or not very good. However, I am all for more quality games being made and I think that designers should not be limited to certain game genres or game topics all I ask is that they don't make crappy games. I hate wasting time so if it is going to be a crappy game then why am I wasting my time playing it and why did you waste your time making it.
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