Linked again

[prog]

Art-game designer and blogger Auntie Pixelante, who linked to The Gameshelf a few months ago, has found Jmac's Arcade, and has challenged me in public to get my act together and produce some more. I hear a lot that they're entertaining or touching, which is great, but being told that they help provide an oral history of a nearly vanished subculture

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[jtroutman]

I agree. Honestly, I enjoyed them more than any other content you have created, from an entertainment level per minute value.

[radiotelescope]

I was just thinking that "entertainment value per minute" is a *terrible* metric. (This in regard to a friend who is trying to get people together to play Tomb, a Boston game thingie which costs more per minute than a movie. Jmac is on the "maybe" list. BECAUSE HE IS LAME.)

Now, "entertainment value per minute that it took Jmac to make" is a metric of considerable utility.

[jtroutman]

I think it is a great metric, because I don't want to waste my time on long things that are marginally fun. I demand to be entertained, dammit!

I will grant you the assertion that the creator's time involved in the production of the work is also of great import.