T w e n t y S i d e d
Max Payne continues his adventure. The conspirators are unveiled.
They’re not very interesting.
Marvel's Civil War
Team Cap or Team Iron Man? More importantly, what basis would you use for making that decision?
Quakecon Keynote 2013 Annotated
An interesting but technically dense talk about gaming technology. I translate it for the non-coders.
Spider-Man
A game I love. It has a solid main story and a couple of really obnoxious, cringy, incoherent side-plots in it. What happened here?
This Game is Too Videogame-y
What's wrong with a game being "too videogameish"?
Project Button Masher
I teach myself music composition by imitating the style of various videogame soundtracks. How did it turn out? Listen for yourself.
You know, that’s almost a haiku.
Max Payne continues.
The conspirators are shown.
They’re not intriguing.
Not that haikus have anything to do with noir, I just thought it was cool.
I never got haiku’s
I mean, what’s the big deal, huh?
Another five syllables.
That’s 6/7/7…
>.<
Edit: A better one:
SatansBestBuddy
Doesn’t get our silliness.
Maybe he counts wrong.
Just teasing, really! :P
Haikus are easy
But sometimes they don’t make sense
Refrigerator
Except non of those are actually Haiku.
The have nothing to do with the weather or a point in time.
They are the dreaded un-Haiku.
Nice job, sir. Throwing in a bit of suspense over who the last guy might be, to provide an additional hook for your strips. :)
Using those EA and Ubisoft as arguments against games being art is like using Sherwin Williams as an argument against painting being art. Art is always produced by independents.
Michaelangelo… Shakespeare…
Exactly. Art is produced by artists. Add Bach, Handel, Botticelli, Chaucer, and Tennyson to the list of sponsored or “corporate” artists. Whether one gets paid for producing it or not and the manner in which one is paid is not a condition deeming something “art.”
You want some ‘games as art’ games Shamus? Check this one out:
http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=514240
The post has been reported for advertising so in case it is not there when you have a look:
http://www.rain-blood.com/
http://www.soulframe-rpg.com/rainblood/?p=277
Chinese game translated into English (by fans apparently). Free for the first half hour, US$6.99 if you want to buy it. The art is hand drawn.
I was thinking, the difference between art and something that looks good is its purpose. A painting’s sole purpose is to be art, whereas a building may be artistic but it is a building first and foremost.
A computer game should be a game first and a piece of art second.
If you want to see how you come across making the argument that games are art then imagine someone making the same argument to you about boardgames. Imagine someone was showing you Monopoly and trying to convince you that it is art.