We need to start professing gaming's artistic merit through intelligent introspective and be critics for once.
The composer behind Journey, Austin Wintory, recently had a chance to revisit the classic game, just in time for its tenth anniversary.
My fav indie game ever, played this on ps4 and ps5. Too bad it does not have a plat trophy.
Jenova Chen told us about the development of the game.
Today, veteran game developers with experience on games like Journey, Skyrim, Spider-Man, Edith Finch, Ratchet & Clank and more, have come together to announce a brand new game studio, Gardens.
Concept artist has a very distinct style and if they can translate that into the game well this studio will be making some visually stunning games.
"I've never really defended video games as art to anyone that I know because I feel it's a silly argument. When you experience amazing works of interactive entertainment on a regular basis, the notion is obvious."
Great quote and good read.
A nice article.
I think the "Are games art?" debate is one of the most over-beaten dead horses in this whole industry.
i hate these arguments. Everyone will say any movie is an artists vision, books of any genre except reference material is considered art but video games still have the stigma of not being art.
So by that logic scary movie is art but heavy rain is not?
It makes me cringe to think that even certain types of porn are considered art but for some reason the metal gear universe is just a game.