Can Electronic Arts make you cry?
Right now, no one knows. This is partly because many would consider the very idea frivolous. But it's also because whoever successfully answers this question must first have answered several others.
Why do we cry? Why do we laugh, or love, or smile? What are the touchstones of our emotions?
Until now, the people who asked such questions tended not to be the same people who ran software companies. Instead, they were writers, filmmakers, painters, musicians. They were, in the traditional sense, artists.
We're about to change that tradition. The name of our company is Electronic Arts. SOFTWARE WORTHY OF THE MINDS THAT USE IT. We are a new association of electronic artists united by a common goal -- to fulfill the enormous potential of the personal computer, transcending its present use as a facilitator of unimaginative tasks and a medium for blasting aliens. These are wondrous machines we have created, and in them can be seen a bit of their makers.
TOWARD A LANGUAGE OF DREAMS. We are finding that the computer can be more than just a processor of data. It is a communications medium: an interactive tool that can bring people's thoughts and feelings closer together, perhaps closer than ever before.
Something along the lines of a universal language of ideas and emotions. Something like a smile.
Join us. We see farther.
ELECTRONIC ARTS presents
EA: NerfWars: This Ain't a Game
SOFTWARE ARTISTS?
"I'm not so sure there are any software artists yet," says Bill Budge. "We've got to earn that title." Pictured here are a few people who have come as close to earning it as anyone we know.
The first publications of Electronic Arts are now available. We suspect you'll be hearing a lot about them. WATCH US.
We're providing a special environment for talented, independent software artists, in which big ideas are given room to grow.
We learn that the traditional distinctions -- the ones that are made between art and entertainment and education -- don't always apply.
We think our current work reflects this very special commitment. And though we are few in number today and apart from the mainstream of the mass software marketplace, we are confident that both time and vision are on our side.
EA GAMES: Challenge everything
If it's in the game, it's in the game
Right now, no one knows. This is partly because many would consider the very idea frivolous. But it's also because whoever successfully answers this question must first have answered several others.
Why do we cry? Why do we laugh, or love, or smile? What are the touchstones of our emotions?
Until now, the people who asked such questions tended not to be the same people who ran software companies. Instead, they were writers, filmmakers, painters, musicians. They were, in the traditional sense, artists.
We're about to change that tradition. The name of our company is Electronic Arts. SOFTWARE WORTHY OF THE MINDS THAT USE IT. We are a new association of electronic artists united by a common goal -- to fulfill the enormous potential of the personal computer, transcending its present use as a facilitator of unimaginative tasks and a medium for blasting aliens. These are wondrous machines we have created, and in them can be seen a bit of their makers.
TOWARD A LANGUAGE OF DREAMS. We are finding that the computer can be more than just a processor of data. It is a communications medium: an interactive tool that can bring people's thoughts and feelings closer together, perhaps closer than ever before.
Something along the lines of a universal language of ideas and emotions. Something like a smile.
Join us. We see farther.
ELECTRONIC ARTS presents
EA: NerfWars: This Ain't a Game
SOFTWARE ARTISTS?
"I'm not so sure there are any software artists yet," says Bill Budge. "We've got to earn that title." Pictured here are a few people who have come as close to earning it as anyone we know.
The first publications of Electronic Arts are now available. We suspect you'll be hearing a lot about them. WATCH US.
We're providing a special environment for talented, independent software artists, in which big ideas are given room to grow.
We learn that the traditional distinctions -- the ones that are made between art and entertainment and education -- don't always apply.
We think our current work reflects this very special commitment. And though we are few in number today and apart from the mainstream of the mass software marketplace, we are confident that both time and vision are on our side.
Allen Varney said:
Ultima VI said:
EA GAMES: Challenge everything
If it's in the game, it's in the game
