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Site Navigation Main    News    Forums Games    Games Database    Top 100    Release List    Support Files Features    Reviews    Previews    Interviews    Editorials    Diaries    Misc Download    Gallery    Music    Screenshots    Videos Miscellaneous    Staff Members    Privacy Statement   Jeff Vogel Interview at GameDeveloper Posted by Rendelius @ Sunday - December 16, 2001 - 17:33 - Top GameDeveloper has conducted an interview with Jeff Vogel from Spiderweb Softwarer, makers of great RPG's like Avernum and Exile. Here's something: What do you think about the 'Games as Art' concept ? Some people claim that games are a form of art and could/should carry a message or have a meaning, or generally be more than just a pasttime.What do you think? Games are art. Period. Sometimes, they're terrible art. However, they tell a story. There's visuals. There's writing. There's dialogue. There is a depiction of some aspect of the world or the human experience, which aims to make an emotional impression on the individual. How could they not be art? The idea that games aren't art is based on some sort of twisted idea that, to be true art, something can't be fun, or must involve some sort of suffering on the part of the parcipiant. Bollocks. I consider The Sims and Planescape: Torment to be art. I really do. Computer games now are like movies in the first few years of that medium. Movies were very crude until they really took off. Source: RPGVault

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