Game Design-week 6

Games design has been seen in many different ways. Some people think game design cannot link to art at all as said by Chirs Crawford, as you cannot compare pac man' or space invaders to art!?
In my opinion you can as there are some simple pop Art work been done in the past and i could see pac mans' basic illustration drawings I'm sure they would be placed in a gallery.

The industry is too young therefore we can't dismiss games all together as art but they can be only ambition on the great potential. I think that games as art will happen and pieces will be shown in Art form in gallery's, i don't see why not as the whole game design leeks to the intense creativity of ideas.

I agree with a game seen as an Art form because it does present motion images to produce the audience with different emotions and reactions to the game, this is similar to when an audience enters an Art gallery and looks at a piece of Van Goghs work for instance, the mind will produce a variety of emotions, reactions to that piece whether positive or negative.

I also agree with the fact, we as game Artists have a more important jobs than an normal Artists has, as we have to create, design a game that will have the audience happy, sad, excited and go through an emotional experience within a game. Games can produce so much more than a piece of paintwork, which basically has an audience say whether or not they like it.

On the other side i must admit there is amazing Artists work out there shown in gallery's which do show there own personal emotions through life experiences, so they want to capture the moment, yet for me i think the Game Artists have a more important responsibility of constant creativity, showing the importance of audiences reactions.

However, most games are not seen as Art form today because the whole industry is in the hands of technologists not Artists themselves which I'm my opinion is hiding the true art of a game Artists. For me i would create a game using ones mind taking references of real life and producing creative designs, but this would be hidden in the game industry as the technologists take your artwork and make it run in an engine game but still they would have to look at the audiences reactions of the character for example.

A Game itself is created for different audiences as a kid would like a simple action game because there mind is still young yet an old person has experienced more so they would like to complicate things for more of a challenge.

The Game industry is a long way off creating a game based on Art itself as it probably will never compare to a piece of Picasso's work or a high standard theatre play set.

In researching all documents based on Games Design i have come to a conspiracy that the actual game drawings work on traditional art materials like paper, cardboard will never be shown as real Art as its not the same as an Artist who would produce a piece of work and spend hours adjusting faults, or it will take a long while until it reaches Art form.

Jake Fowell