SHIFT: Video games are not art |
| Published: August 23, 2007, 8:25 pm |
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Last year, my colleague Adam Frucci took the position in his weekly column that video games are art. And in the last several months the debate has heated up with differing points of view. Film critic Roger Ebert weighed in recently to say video games are not art, while various gaming insiders — notably Newsweek's N'Gai Croal rallied to the cause that they are. As a longtime video-game reviewer, I'll be the first to say that I don't know art, but I know what I like, and I believe games are most certainly not art. And I'll tell you why. Artistic Qualities Doesn't Mean Art There is no denying that video games have artistic qualities and, more importantly, artistic elements. Games after all are the result of hard work by a number of creative and artistic people. Every game has a team that works on the "art," meaning the graphics. There are also creative people that write the story and work out the plot. This is an artistic endeavor. Additionally, while we think of games as a [ Full article ] |
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