In the past 40 years, since the birth of video gaming, games have exploded tremendously, but only having a large cultural influence for the past 30 years. With its new and innovative colors, graphics and storyline video games have truly become an art form for this digital age. Even though there's still a lot more to examine with video games, the culture of gaming is rising in a similar way that film rose in its early years. However unlike film, video games are obviously more interactive, and some leave room for multiple endings where its up to the player to discover different paths. On the contrary to film, where filmmakers create the story, and you simply sit back and watch. Since gaming brings new ways of entertainment, not only visually but interactively, in addition to giving leeway to the players to discover new boundaries and endings, video gaming has then become a new addtion to the art medium, and a part of our daily lives.
Friday, December 4, 2009
Video Game as a Medium
In the past 40 years, since the birth of video gaming, games have exploded tremendously, but only having a large cultural influence for the past 30 years. With its new and innovative colors, graphics and storyline video games have truly become an art form for this digital age. Even though there's still a lot more to examine with video games, the culture of gaming is rising in a similar way that film rose in its early years. However unlike film, video games are obviously more interactive, and some leave room for multiple endings where its up to the player to discover different paths. On the contrary to film, where filmmakers create the story, and you simply sit back and watch. Since gaming brings new ways of entertainment, not only visually but interactively, in addition to giving leeway to the players to discover new boundaries and endings, video gaming has then become a new addtion to the art medium, and a part of our daily lives.
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In this article I elaborate on Video Games as a medium with its own unique characteristics. My overall claim is that calling this medium “hybrid” or “difficult to categorize” does not reflect so much the nature of the medium itself as it reflects the confusion of those who try to understand it. The video game is, despite all the complexity that it is associated with, a medium that can and should be defined without thinking of it as a hybrid of all media that preceeded it. The article starts with my suggestion to use the term ‘media-instance’ to overcome the complexity that surrounds the video game medium. Then I continue to examine the video game medium and try to define the raw material that distinguishes it from other types of media. Finally I examine how this raw material is assembled and articulated in order to create a meaningful aesthetic experience for the user. Enjoy!
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