Are video games an art form? I would have to say yes. For as much work that goes into a game it is most defiantly an art. Video games, to me, are like a interactive art, where it is a continually progressing media. Graphics alone do not make a video game an art form; story lines, character development, and even music combine together to produce the “master piece” which is the game. So video games can fall into many different categories to be “art”. If we think music is an art form, that is present in a game. If we think that a book, or movie, is an art form, again that is present in a game. I do not really understand why there is a question on are video games are art or not. Not everyone likes a particular form of art, same with games, some like one over the others. I game does not have to be so complicated that only a certain group of people would be interested in it. It is like comparing Bioshock to Mario Cart, like comparing a Picasso to a Thomas Kincaid. They are completely different but each in their own right valuable to the art world. It is easy to see why Bioshock would be consider an art piece to the video game world, but why is it such a stretch for anything as sill as Mario? It might not be cutting edge like Bioshock, but games like Mario anything is what people first started playing as kids, recruiting new minds to video games, and in turn maybe even producing future game developers when they grow up.
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You'r right in the thinking that videogames fall into different categories of art. I like the comparsion of Bioshock to Mario Kart because it's so true. Too many times people forget that it's what we as individuals think of as art and not what the general public considers art. It's going to be different for everyone.
ReplyDeleteIts true there are way to many forms of art, and to say videogames aren't one is bonk. Just like the saying "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" the same is true for art. I'm sure though there are plenty of people that would argue with you though, mostly non-gamers though.
ReplyDeleteVideo games as interactive art eh'? I like that. It's like 3D or those magic eye images that astounded us all in the 90's. I also hold to the belief that what you consider to be art is the qualifier and not some rulebook that is established by arbitrary critics.
ReplyDeleteYes, I totally agree that each piece of art is considered art in some relative form. I wouldn’t consider someone slinging paint on a canvas art, but I would consider Starry Night art....it is all in technique and up to an individual to say what is art and what isn’t. I would as well agree that all things combined to create the master piece called a videogame are what make them a video game.
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