While this is somewhat of a tangent from my previous two articles, it still retains relevance to art in video games. We will be discussing the world that player freedom opens up to video games and, therefore, art. Video games contain many parallels to film with the ways that cinematography, artwork, dialogue, etc. are produced […]
In this article series we explore the inner workings as to why video games are not considered art by the general populace. Please visit my first article before jumping into this one. If we isolate the cinematics , music, story, dialogue, etc. in video games we are left with things we can more comfortably call […]
Why aren’t video games considered art? As Mr. A. pointed out to me, “I know they are art… As a folklorist, I understand everything a human creates and does— that is not involuntary— is art, but that can be hard for many people to accept.” While this is a wonderful insight it still doesn’t answer […]
