I read the whole article and it is ridiculous.
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One obvious difference between art and games is that you can win a game.
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One obvious difference between painting and poetry is you can hear a poem. Does that mean painters are artists and poets are not or does it mean art can have multiple aspects.
He says this movie from 1902 is vastly more advanced than modern video games and the director has "superior artistry and imagination."
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz5KKh4R70E"]YouTube - "Le Voyage dans la Lune" (1902)[/ame]
I could not fully understand the movie because it was in French and could not hold my attention for very long but it is increadibly niave to think that any movie director will always have "superior artistry and imagination" than any video game director for ever and ever. Ridiculous!
Movies I think are the great modern art form. I think more people today view art in the form of video than in any other medium. The difference between a movie and a game is often just interactivity.
Interactivity is just an additional layer. The same as adding rhyme and rhythm to a story changes it into a poem and adding multple frames to a photograph changes it into a silent film and adding sound to a silent film turns it into a talky and adding color to a talky turns it into a modern movie. Adding interactivity to a movie turns it into a video game. It is an evolution of the art form not an abandonment of art.
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Originally Posted by Tenser
Secret of NIMH is awesome. Dragon Lair isn't.
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I wasn't comparing their quality. Both are cartoons from the 80s. The only technical difference is Dragon's Lair requires interaction. I don't see that as a large enough distinction to classify one as art and the other as not. That is just silly.