Suda51 talks games relating to culture and art, says he feels a ‘duty’ to create games that ‘push the status quo’

Posted on July 26, 2013 by Austin(@NE_Austin) in General Gaming, News

“So I think video games are becoming an important, and a dominant form of entertainment worldwide. And in that landscape, I truly feel that our shooters, racers, and our mainstream games have been covered, checked off and done well. To really push games into the realm of culture and art, I feel that only doing realistic mainstream games won’t be enough; we need to pursue new frontiers and new horizons with what we do, and the process of creation shouldn’t be contained.”

“Therefore, I feel at Grasshopper one of our obligations– our duties– to the video game world is to create revolutionary titles that really push the status quo.”

– Game designer Suda51

One of the few folk truly approaching game design from an artistic standpoint, Suda certainly lives up to what he says with every game he’s made that I’ve played. I’m not sure we need every single developer to go down the road he’s on, but I do agree that more people should approach game design in fundamentally the same way.

Via Gamespot