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Games That Are Art (Hint: all of them)
Goei \| 9:16 PM on 09.15.2007	8 comments

I am tired of hearing questions like "Could you give three examples of games that are art?" For, you see, all games are art. Every last one of them. Space Invaders is art, the creators were just limited by the hardware. People saying things like "Ico is art, so games are therefore art" are making the argument slide the wrong way. That is like saying "Mona Lisa is art, so therefore visual arts is art." There are three kinds of art: visual, performing, and interactive (I am not sure if literature is technically art...). Also, everything in a game is art: Programmers create logical art (realism); the animators make art (movies); and of course for 3D games the modelers make art (sculpture).

But are all games art, like "don't click this button"? If this is art:

Then those games count as art. Not all art has to be good, remember?

(Alright, so maybe splatter painting isn't that bad, but I just think that they require minimum color theory skill, like crappy Flash games require minimum programming skill)

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7 comments | showing # 1 to 7

Jim Sterling

Games are art because art is subjective and I say games are art. This cannot be debated as one cannot debate a subject based upon personal perception. The argument begins and ends with "I see this as art."

Goei

Some people see art as something that can be defined, even though it can't. This is who this post is more directed towards.

Eschatos

Yeah, but those douchetards aren't going to read this.

Jim Sterling

"Some people see art as something that can be defined, even though it can't. This is who this post is more directed towards."

And the second they admit that they feel art is not subjective, which they would have to do by default, then they have lost the argument and do not require further engagement.

Necros

Jim speaks the truth. This point deserves a forced double post.

Necros

Jim speaks the truth. This point deserves a forced double post.

madninja

There is a whole Retro Force Go! about this, and it was a good listen.

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