Thread: Are video games art?
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Old 02-25-2011, 10:24 AM   #60
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I don't know which thread to put this in...might post it in both. Anyhow one thing I think of is like RTS games and turn based strategie games (TBS games looked wierd) are always commented on that they play like a spreadsheet. Speaking as an accountant that likes the Civ series and is working on a spreadsheet currently, those are tools, not art. And if a game plays like a tool, it is hard to say it is art. Which is why I keep saying the media as a whole is not art. But a game might be.
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