Start is left unpressed, and the demo repeats...

I should say, it's been a long time coming.

First and foremost, I would like to begin with a preface. A brief moment to orient myself in a return to blogging. 'Cause you know and I know and now you know that I know, that nothing said here will be anything new. I'm just another voice in the static of the cultural nether, talkin' about some shit or somethin'. So, the first thing you must understand is that my aim is to avoid all things ostentatious in favor of honesty, and though I may or may not be wearing a powdered wig at the time of this entry, know that any accusation of pretension will be met with doe-eyed confusion. Ya feel me? Excellent, me neither.

So check this out, this blog is all about video games, or to you lay persons: "vidya games". But not just video games in general, but rather the art of video games... or the lack thereof.

Now now... before you get out your beatin' sticks, allow me to explain that this only appears to be a dead horse. For you see, I believe that for this medium to be as valid as it deserves to be, then video games must too succumb to the same scrutiny as great literature, film and music. As you can imagine, I, being a man of great opinions, have a lot to say about this topic; so for the most part, I plan to conform each entry to a particular idea. An element, if you will (and yes, you will), of various aspects that will relate to the overall theme of gaming and art and their little arty game babies. Throw in a few odd game reviews, things that generally relate to creativity, along with the natural evolution of projects like this, and that's pretty much what you can expect from this blog.

All that said, I don't know shit about programming, nor have I ever had any extensive, formal study of art critique. I'm just a chap who loves thinking, analysis, and the beauty that is human imagination. So, I'm really hoping that I can get some good discussions going on here, so feel free to share your opinions. Here's to hoping they will be as thoughtful as I imagine they will be, cheers!

I'm sure some of you are wondering where the title "8-bit Baroque" came from, and if you weren't, then you really should have been (you really, really should have been, ya turkey). So allow me to explain myself: aside from the fact that Baroque is just one of my favorite words and my favorite era of classical music (real rock stars play harpsichord), I couldn't help but enjoy the contradiction between all that is 8-bit and all that is Baroque. The beautiful simplicity of necessity juxtaposed with overt and superfluous extravagance...

...Aesthetics, can you dig it?