/lit/ - Literature

Reminder that if you're interested in this topic, you need to read pic related. Even if you don't agree with it, it is essential reading on the topic.

>>12629497
You don't seem to be a genuine art connoisseur, otherwise you wouldn't push such a vapid generalization of an entire art form like that. I understand that 99.9% of people on the internet who vouch for video games as art are either children or man-children, and this can curb your enthusiasm for investigating further altogether, but this is ultimately at your expense, because you are passing up studying the art of the culture of today's intelligentsia (i.e. techno-capitalists).

Alex Kierkegaard, aka icycalm, who is the only serious art connoisseur with a proper education involved in video games I have come across so far, has been building a list of "art games" for years now, and is still working on this list. So far, the games featured include:

Nekketsu Kouha Kunio-kun (1986, Technōs Japan)
OutRun (1986, SEGA)
Kick Off (1989, Dino Dini)
SimCity (1989, Maxis)
Wing Commander (1990, Origin Systems)
Sonic the Hedgehog (1991, SEGA)
Merchant Prince (1993, HDI)
Phantasmagoria (1995, Sierra)
Baldur's Gate (1998, BioWare)
Power Stone (1999, Capcom)
Gunvalkyrie (2002, Smilebit)
Mushihime-sama (2004, CAVE)
Rust (2013, Facepunch Studios)
Planetary Annihilation (2014, Uber Entertainment)
Life is Feudal: MMO (2017, Bitbox Ltd.)

He has written articles on all of them, expressing in full detail his reasons for labeling these games as art. These are also not the only artistic video games out there; these are just the pinnacle examples. He has written a wealth of essays covering video game design, the culture surrounding video games, virtual reality, art in general, and much more. I'm not here to tell you that you HAVE to get into video games, or that you HAVE to stop enjoying what you enjoy; I'm just sharing information that seems to go relatively unmentioned on the internet.

Video games are quick to be discarded as nothing more than an electronic toy for children, and in many cases that's all they are, but it should be obvious to anyone who is an art connoisseur at any level that there is more to them than that, and that there is craftsmanship, design, and consequently an aesthetic experience to be traced and measured in them.

>>12592471
>western art declining
It isn't though.

Why is he still the only serious writer on modern / contemporary art out there?

>>11834991
culture.vg

You will find many essays on various game-related topics there.