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Re:He Created the Oregon Trail by kubb on Sunday November 21, 2021 @08:42AM (#29296160)
I can't think of a single mobile game that has any artistic value to me, but there are quite a few for the PC and consoles. A front-end for farming money and high quality entertainment should be considered different kinds of computer programs, and not lumped together as "games".
Re:He Created the Oregon Trail by codetrotter on Sunday November 21, 2021 @09:12AM (#29296310)
> I can't think of a single mobile game that has any artistic value to me

Monument Valley

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_Valley_(video_game)

Re:He Created the Oregon Trail by AutumnCurtain on Sunday November 21, 2021 @09:44AM (#29296487)
I guess I don't ascribe particularly high value to the category of games, I think even very simple games designed to take money from the player count. But I do agree on the mobile vs PC divide broadly in terms of what's on the market. I would actually cite Civ as a series that's still trying hard to do engaging things, in the form of constant but varied puzzles with intellectual complexity which reward planning and forethought.