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Are video games a separate art form?
  • For me, art is a way to communicate in interesting ways via a medium. Video games are clearly able to do it. I'm thinking of Outer Wilds for example. Everything in the game from the music, the main menu picture, the gameplay, the way the worlds interacts with and without you... All thoses elements are combined to convey the same thing, the same feeling about life and the universe. Art is a value judgement. If you don't find it interesting or complexe enough you will disregard it.

    Also regarding the arguments you shared, I do not buy them (obviously ^^`)

    • Video games is just other arts combined. Yes, and movies is just acting, photography and music. So with this argument, cinema isn't art? Plus: it's wrong, because games are defined by their interactivity, that no other art form share with it.
    • Some games are not made to be art. The pornographic movie I watched yesterday was also not made to be art. So with this argument, cinema isn't art?
    • Some games are made just to make money. Like Marvel movies? So with this argument, cinema isn't art?
    • Games are way more interactive than any other art. Ok and? Why having something unique makes it not be art? In contrary, it should be considered as art because he can express things like nothing else.
  • Quick! Name ONE favorite in each category!
    • lightweight: Love Letter This game is so simple and so full of drama! It worked with every groups I played with.
    • medium: Unmatched I love how gameplay is used to give every characters their own personality. I was a big fan of BattleCon and still am) but Unmatched is so easier to bring in the table.
    • heavyweight: Twilight Imperium I played this game 3 times right now. I never find an opportunity 😭 but I think about it so often!
    • Most played: Noir: killer vs inspector At least this is what bga told me. Very short, strategic enough, nice asymetry.
    • Favorite: if I was serious, my top 3 are the first three games on this list, Indon't know in which order. But just to give place to another game: 7th Continent I still haven't explored everything!
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