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Are Videogames Art

art: "the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance." http://dictionary.reference.com... using the word production in the definition of art, means for it to be productive to the soul and those who view the form of art. Thus i will be basing this off productivity. GAMEMAKERS "but also they are allowed boundless opportunities to use their creativity and imagination, which sounds like art to me." video games in themselves are not where the creativity and imagination spark from. the creators of the game being the ones who put forth all the creativity are the ones using imagination and creativity. Such as paintings and soul music can be considered a form of art because of this creativity and imagination that they themselves put into the particular frame of art. but those who view the art, cannot be said to have used the creativity and imagination, simply by viewing the said artwork. so the point here is that the game itself does not spark creativity and imagination, however, but the makers of the game Such as paintings and soul music can be considered a form of art because of this creativity and imagination that they themselves put into the particular frame of art. but those who view the art, cannot be said to have used the creativity and imagination, simply by viewing the said artwork. so the point here is that the game itself does not spark creativity and imagination, however, but the makers of the game art the ones who have used creativity and imagination. UNPRODUCTIVITY While the people who made them game used a form of art in making the game by being creative and imaginitive, the game in itself does not provide a form of productivity or, seemingly, a specific influential point. For example, everything that is considered art has a certain meaning or phase to the the benefit of learning.meaning Every piece of art must have an influential meaning that can be used as pertaining to human life. Although games like halo and final fantasy did have alot of imagination and creativity used in them and are very fun, they pose no specific point or influential benefits. when and if a game pertained the the inspiration of mankind other than the destruction of it, it could be used as an example of 'a piece of art'. however this is not the case with games such as in all the games you have listed. Dont get me wrong, i enjoy playing video games, and i do think they are fun, but i do not beleieve they would fall uner the category of art. thankyou -philosophical