Posted: Apr 18, 2012 8:19 pm
CdesignProponentsist wrote:You have to draw circles around things and give them a label. That's just how language works. Giving everything with subtle nuanced differences different names just becomes too tedious.
You really don't need to in every case though, and you certainly don't need to gainsay someone calling a not-very-interactive piece of entertainment software a "game", to get across the point that it's not-very-interactive, for example.
CdesignProponentsist wrote:Video games are art in very much the same way a motion picture or a graphic novel is art.
You're entitled to your opinion of course, I certainly don't see any point in arguing it one way or the other as it conveys no information.
CdesignProponentsist wrote:Both football and eye-spy are done for entertainment, have a rule set and at least one or more subjective or objective goals. Pissing in a bowl without sploshing your feet would not really fit this criteria (with the exception of the last).
That conveys some information, yet doesn't contain the labels. The labels and quibbling over the fine points of what falls in what category really adds nothing to the discussion, is what I am saying.
Pretty much anything interactive has rules and limitations though, that's a product of it being interactive and has little to do with its classification as a game or art (think, doing the account books on an excel spreadsheet for example).