Hey! I love playing video games. Mostly PC games.
I'm not sure if video games count as an art form or not...
Oh I think they do. They require a lot of creative thought and execution.
For some reason the entertainment industry can't make up their mind on the subject.
Why's that? It seems a bit ironic, since art is a driving force for entertainment.
I guess they can't decide if it's simply a form of entertainment since it just hold an audience's attention.
But then that just disregards the whole development stage of games. All of the design work, writing, acting, etc. Besides, anything entertaining is basically there to hold attention.
I agree. Plus even art itself can be entertaining and hold people's attention.
Precisely! Do you know when and why this debate on whether video games are an art form or not began?
Heinz Felfe
Heinz Paul Johann Felfe (March 18, 1918 – May 8, 2008) was a German spy.
At various times he worked for the intelligence services of Nazi Germany, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and West Germany. It is still not clear when he started working for Soviet intelligence, but it is known that between 1951 and 1961 he was a highly effective double agent, supplying important intelligence received in the course of his work for West German Intelligence to the Soviet Union.
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, I believe they are only using religion to create stimulating plot points in their story lines".
Games as focus of religious studies.
For many years video games were seen as mere entertainment, a form of "low culture". Playing video games was seen as a form of escapism and the medium was not regarded as a valid object of scientific research. To "play" games as a scholarly pursuit was thought of as "ludicrous". It has only been in recent years that video games have become