Gaming an art?

[PowerMad]

What do you htink on this matter. As abstract as it is, it's caused a lot of contraversy (spelling?).

People consider a lot as art, so why not gaming? I mean texture work, charecter desine, animations, exicution, all this stuff! I say if the guy considers movies, books, or drawings done in photoshop art, then gaming is art.

So is that CD-rom the canvas of gaming?

[Qecbum]

you make a really good point is gaming worse then porno is that not an art? but not gaming why I ask why!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!

[Azan]

Gaming as in making games? Or playing them?

Well I would have to say that a game is a grouping of several different types of art, you need artistic talent to make the characters, music etc. etc.

[Decieved by the Truth]

[glow=red,2,300]yeah, I would agree that making games can definetly be described as art, I mean, you cant just take some bloke off the street, teach him all you need to know to make a game, and expect something like Zelda or Shadow of the Colossus to just pop out...[/glow]

[Qecbum]

well you kind of can, I dont know shize about makeing games but I wright and a few days ago I came across a video game software thing I made a cool text baced game much like zork in the way you play but it revouls around my story I am wrighting I made a demo version and let my friend try it and he said it was really good now I would consider my self some guy right off the street.

[Lobstrosity]

I got into an argument with my dad and brother about this. They are both music fanatics and take a sort of 'music is life' stance. They said music was art, and I retorted by saying videogames could be considered art, which of course incurred their immediate disbelief that anyone could say cuch a thing. They said "videogames are just games, music is an art." To this day I do not understand their logic. As if they are saying something is not art if it is interactive. I guess they think art is anything that is perceived, but not altered. But then considering that music is altered when it is written, they must admit that the writing of music is interactive, therefore is either not art and more of a 'game' (unlikely), or that videogames can be considered art as well since they are perceived and altered by the player (logical).