Do you consider video games as art? Why or why not?

Depends on the game. But nowadays, yes - definitely.





Some games the artwork is so visually stunning as to make or break a title. Artwork goes into the interface, the characters the backdrops, items, cutscenes, random textures...





You don't get a modern day videogame without an art and design department closely involved in the conceptual design and production.|||Yes, because its shiny, but really, yes I do consider it, you can't just define art in painting, sculptures and such, anything can be art to a artist view or w/e|||Art is a subjective term. There is no definite meaning of 'What art is' (even the meaning of it in a dictionary is subjective each individual). It is up to the individual to decide what is and isn't art for themselves.





Personally, I believe anything can be art or at least has some artistic influence in it. Video games come in all sorts of forms with a wide variety of stories, settings and characters. Take a game like Okami. The actual style of the game's art is based on the Sumi-E style of drawing/inks. Then, looking at game like Halo, there are moments where the setting looks very ambient or a scene that plays out looks and 'feels' right for someone (one of the many things people tend to say art should have/be would be 'invoking a feeling in the viewer'). In a sense, video games are a widely distributed performance art.|||Yes, because people made it out of imagination.