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The Art of Video Games

In both cases, this games are conceived to foster the reunion of players, whether it is to fight one another or to work in group to face challenges too hard to be dealt with alone. The problem being that player have to meet at a certain time to be together on the game at the same time leading to a timetable and a schedule to be respected by all players if they want to stay in the team. Let's take the example of a family with a 14 years old adolescent. The dinner is ready at 8Pm but the said young man has a "meeting" on his video game, leading to conflict with the rest of the family when called upon to eat. The common analysis of this case will most likely cast a blame on the "stupid game" which isolates the child from his family. This common critic of video games falls short: the existence of a recreational piece does not exclude the artistic potential of another piece although both are made on the same medium (Do comics annihilate the artistic potential of Art Spiegelman's "Maus" by their mere existence?). .
             We defined art as heavily relying on a community to be considered an art. History shows that the typical reaction of the society to the birth of a new art form is a reactionary one. For instance Baudelaire's view of photography is scornful for the least on the basis that taking a photograph was too easy and that widespread art, accessible to everyone is the end of the art as an exceptional expression and therefore the end of the artist as a special figure. The same pattern emerges with the apparition of widespread video gaming. As measure as the so called "gaming culture" rises, critics brand it as an under-culture. Nevertheless this culture is a reality, bringing millions of people across the world together. The cultural identity of a generation tends to adopt the latest art form as its primary support, it is the case for the "generation Y" and video games.


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