Forum Overview :: Five Nights at Freddy's

You can get pissy about definitions by Vested Id 07/31/2015, 5:24pm PDT but the whole history of debate about the art/not art nature of videogames is a bunch of failed definitions. Any "thing" like the kinds you named there can be a medium of expression, but only second to some other function. The right approach is to ask what leads you to think games are or are not works of art, and with games it's simple (for me) - you have games and then you have games that are fully authored creations. Tiny example: you can't play computer chess with a set of bottlecaps you have lying around. You can certainly reskin an existing game to be played with bottlecaps, but then it makes more sense to say you've created your own variation of that game, whereas bottlecap chess is just chess for poors who know how the game works.

Someday I am going to play all of these back to back. by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/24/2015, 11:58am PDT     Resident Evil took 15 years to run things into the ground, how long has he taken NT by 18 months? 07/24/2015, 3:27pm PDT         You're wrong about this. NT by Mysterio 07/24/2015, 5:29pm PDT         This is a bad opinion. by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/24/2015, 6:25pm PDT             Run into the ground suggests some kind of downward trend. by Worm 07/24/2015, 7:07pm PDT                 Lame! Incredible. by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/24/2015, 7:51pm PDT                     You goddamn pussies by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/26/2015, 11:43am PDT                         Yes, please! by Frozen Yogurt Gerald 07/26/2015, 12:00pm PDT             Five nights at Freddy's 1 was a good indie game by WITTGENSTEIN 07/30/2015, 11:28am PDT                 1 was the same kind of busy work by fabio 07/30/2015, 3:12pm PDT     The first one was great. Haven't played the sequels by blackwater 07/31/2015, 12:39am PDT         Re: The first one was great. Haven't played the sequels by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/31/2015, 7:51am PDT         How about games as "fun, innovative, not the same thing over and over"? NT by WITTGENSTEIN 07/31/2015, 10:47am PDT         We don't want games to be purely commercial or purely artistic. by Worm 07/31/2015, 11:42am PDT         I think the reason got beat up was by Vested Id 07/31/2015, 12:18pm PDT         Games are art the way churches, violins, sports cars and supercomputers are not. NT by Ted Michelangelo, Lead Art Designer 07/31/2015, 1:04pm PDT             You can get pissy about definitions by Vested Id 07/31/2015, 5:24pm PDT         The hell of it is, he made better games for free. by Mischief Maker 07/31/2015, 2:57pm PDT