Author: Tom Bissell

Quotes

Games tell stories best when they're elliptical and ambiguous and there's a sense of roaming and freedom.

Games tell stories best when they're elliptical and ambiguous and there's a sense of roaming and freedom.

- Tom Bissell

Often the art in a video game is like glorified Thomas Kinkade, but some of it is genuinely enchanting and compelling.

Often the art in a video game is like glorified Thomas Kinkade, but some of it is genuinely enchanting and compelling.

- Tom Bissell

All video games are games, obviously. They're designed. They're digital. They have rules; they give an audience some type of vicarious experience.

All video games are games, obviously. They're designed. They're digital. They have rules; they give an audience some type of vicarious experience.

- Tom Bissell

Here's what I just realized: A world in which sport at its best is not seen as some kind of art is a world that doesn't deserve any art.

Here's what I just realized: A world in which sport at its best is not seen as some kind of art is a world that doesn't deserve any art.

- Tom Bissell

I'm an Old Media guy. I don't have a website; I don't Twitter. I love magazines, yet I love video games. It's a strange disconnect.

I'm an Old Media guy. I don't have a website; I don't Twitter. I love magazines, yet I love video games. It's a strange disconnect.

- Tom Bissell

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