Play the art: Artistic value in video games

Jancsovics, Klaudia

dc.contributor.author	Jancsovics, Klaudia
dc.date.accessioned	2023-02-13T09:17:43Z
dc.date.available	2023-02-13T09:17:43Z
dc.date.issued	2022-07-14
dc.identifier.issn	2391-8551
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11089/45932
dc.description.abstract	Playing a game does not mean that we are doing something childish and useless. Using a new technology to express our feelings and raise the awareness of social issues does not mean we cannot call it art. If we go back in time, we can realize that there has always been a resistance to novelty and machines. Sometimes, they were even considered harmful. The same life cycle happens with video games: they are valuable in many ways, they are far more developed than they were twenty years ago, and they have even reached a stage where we can find art in them. But how can they be art? Is the answer in the story or in the audiovisual elements?	en
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego	pl
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Replay. The Polish Journal of Game Studies;1	en
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subject	art	en
dc.subject	immersion	en
dc.subject	feedback loop	en
dc.subject	feelings	en
dc.title	Play the art: Artistic value in video games	en
dc.type	Article
dc.page.number	37-51
dc.contributor.authorAffiliation	University of Szeged	en
dc.identifier.eissn	2449-8394
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dc.contributor.authorEmail	jancsovicsklaudia@gmail.com
dc.identifier.doi	10.18778/2391-8551.08.02
dc.relation.volume	8

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