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Art+Games -
Projects
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Written by Antti
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Wednesday, 30 January 2008 |
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I have reserved this little corner of Alt+Games to my own little experiments. These won't show in the main blog's front page, but you are welcome to check them out in their own section.
The purpose of Art+Games is to make art in the form of indie games and game modifications.
This
is not meant as a comment to the on-going debate of whether or not
games are art. Nor it is an attack to games that already exist: I
consider many of them as art. Few, however, have undertaken the task of
artistic game development; that is, the development of games with
purely artistic motivation.
The dualistic divide between commercial games and artistic games
seems inevitable, if one takes into consideration the motivation to
create games. In commercial games, the motivation in the end is always
profit. This does not mean that commercial games cannot be seen as
works of art. However, the justification of this project is that in
order for the games realm to be a full one artistically, there have to
be a certain amount of people working in this area of culture with
other motivations. I am one of them. There are others too and this section
will provide information of other people and projects as well.
The
majority of the section, however, will be dedicated to my art game
projects and discussion about the ways games can be used to provide art experiences to the players and by-standers.
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