Since the first time I wrote about the Floyd/Portnow collaboration that is "Video Games and...," it would seem that they've been sponsored by Gamasutra. Which hopefully means that we can look forward to more webi's of this clever and introspective look into video game design and development.
Listen up boys and girls, this esss is effn important!
Courtesy of Bleeding Edge, never heard of them, but really grateful for the video. This vid is going to take some time to cache, so play a game of Carc, or Street Fighter and come back in say ....6 mins?!
While I hate G4 for destroyingTechTV; AOTS is one of the few things I still love about the television company. This is mainly because of Kevin Pereira, one good television personality among the many. His zany wit, poignant insight, and impulsive on screen antics during AOTS make the show a must watch for me.
I don't always get to see the show and the filter at work blocks streaming and embedded video, but moments like these are the biggest payoff for being such a fan. Behold! I give you the McKakke.
Daniel Floyd or , kirithem, is a 24 year old grad student at Savannah College of Art and Design who creates the YouTube videos centering on Video Games and related topics. The three video posted online so far refer to Storytelling, Tangetial Learning, and Sex. The witty and valid arguments found within these videos have been based upon the writings of James Portnow, Brenda Brathwaite, and Leigh Alexander.
Floyd has strucutured these videos in the same sense of the Zero Punctuation shorts created by and featuring Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw. Personally I have found "Video Games and..." a more meaningful addition than Zero Punctuation, or any of it's knockoffs, to the video game culture because it validates it's arguments with historial examples and well structured logic.
Lets hope Floyd finds more time in his busy schedule to create additional work for us to ponder on.
