We certainly need more beautiful designed games. I don t mean games that look good from a technical point of view. The notion that the graphical quality of a game can be measured in numbers is still common sense amongst a lot of people. From this perspective every new game has to raise the bar towards graphical realism. This is of course plain wrong. Instead, every game needs a distinct personality. Like Ether for instance an atmospheric, physics-based Half-Life 2 Mod developed by Brown Dyed Hotel, a group of swedish students from Campus Karlshamn of Blekinge Institute of Technology. I only played it for several minutes at the Swedish Game Awards Exhibition, but I was immediately captivated by it s beauty and I encourage everyone to check it out for yourself.
