What Video Games Can Do as an Artform | The Language of Games, and Why Video Games are Art

An Analysis of the unique language of games, why Video games are art, what they can do as an artform, and how interactivity gives creators new avenues to express themselves.

Videogames as a medium are still extremely young, and creators have yet to truly harness their potential in unique ways. However, we have come a long way as a medium, and this video documents the many brilliant creations by the best Video games have to offer, and how they use the unique language of play.

What only Videogames can do as an artform| The language of games

Books mentioned

Raph Koster -A Theory of Fun
Jesper Juul -The Art of Failure
Jane Mcgonigall -Reality is Broken
Ian Bogost- Persuasive games
James Gee - What Video Games teach us about Learning and Literacy
Joseph Campbell - The Hero with a thousand Faces


Credits
Additonal footage from
-GDC Mata Haggis ,Gdc Raph Koster, GDc Will Wright. GDC Erin Hofstader , The aesthetioc of play
-Playstation -Nintendo
- Devil may cry 3 - Shirrako
The Tetris Effect Nick Robinson
Journey IAMtheSpOOn
-Ico - EightBitHD

Music. Official Nier Automata soundtrack. Official Journey soundtrack. Official Ori and the blind forest soundtrack.

Why Video games are art. Games are art. Video games are art. Interactive storytelling