/lit/ - Literature

>>7048489
No. Games are games.

A game is logic. It's an algorithm. It's a collection of instructions and conditions.

You can play games with any tokens. You can play chess with torn pieces of paper. You could play an FPS if all you see are hitboxes.

The tokens are arbitrary. They can be aesthetically compelling, or just barebones.

Likewise gameplay can be accompanied by or fused with musical elements, but the essential game remains logic, not art.

So, the ornamentation and accompaniment of games can contain art, but games qua games are not art--they are games.