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Message: [QUOTE="Strategist, post: 30590, member: 767"] I think video games have always been art. It really gets nebulous when declaring something absolutely cannot be that. There isn't a simple all-encompassing definition that one can use for art. My art professor described art as communication of ideas. Well, from that point of view video games are absolutely art, even from the Space Invaders days. We clearly get what the Space Invaders game is trying to communicate. The interesting aspect of video games is that the gameplay aspect of the game is often disconnected from the "artistic" element of the game. Like Space Invaders could've had any other theme and it would've worked as a game. I don't think gameplay loops are necessarily "artistic" but there's an art to creating a good gameplay loop. But that also goes into psychology and understanding our simple monkey brain. Ultimately, I've settled on: some video games grade higher on the artistic spectrum while other games are just preying on our monkey brain desires to push a button in rhythm but all of them are art. [/QUOTE]

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