{"id":7896,"date":"2010-04-30T16:15:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T21:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=7896"},"modified":"2010-05-12T09:14:06","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T14:14:06","slug":"arty-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=7896","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: Arty Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this week&#8217;s column, I suggest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/columns\/experienced-points\/7498-Arty-Games\">five games that I think make the &#8220;Games as Art&#8221; case fairly well<\/a>. (Assuming, as Yahtzee points out, that both sides are even working with the same definition of &#8220;art&#8221;.) My list is actually, &#8220;Five arty games that could be approached by a newcomer.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>And this leads to the main reason that this debate is boring to me. An Ebert says games aren&#8217;t art. A gamer offers up some examples as I have.  Then the Ebert will dismiss them. The Gamer will protest.  Eventually they realize they are talking about two different things when they say &#8220;art&#8221;.  And then the rest of the debate is an attempt to define art, which is a fool&#8217;s errand. <\/p>\n<p>Art or not, it&#8217;s a pretty fun way to spend the time. <\/p>\n<p>I should play some more Max Payne this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week&#8217;s column, I suggest five games that I think make the &#8220;Games as Art&#8221; case fairly well. (Assuming, as Yahtzee points out, that both sides are even working with the same definition of &#8220;art&#8221;.) My list is actually, &#8220;Five arty games that could be approached by a newcomer.&#8221; And this leads to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}