{"id":1320,"date":"2010-10-03T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/handyvandal.com\/?p=1320"},"modified":"2010-12-04T11:44:07","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T17:44:07","slug":"steinberg-games-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/2010\/10\/steinberg-games-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Steinberg on Games as Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nScott Steinberg asks: who says video games aren’t art?<\/p>\n

\nDetractors can rightly argue that not every game technically fits the definition of art, or aspires to such lofty goals. Plenty of titles exist purely as profit-generating vehicles designed to cash in on TV shows, films and mindless pop culture artifacts.<\/p>\n

But by letting us assume a variety of different roles, experience the world through new eyes and soak up scenarios from a fuller range of perspectives, many of the best games provide room for personal growth and individual interpretation. Capable of great import and splendor, at their best, video games can marry the aesthetic grace of painting, music and sculpture with the depth and gravity of film, literature and stagecraft. <\/p>\n

— Scott Steinberg<\/a> @ Cnn.com\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m so pleased with myself for creating Last Supper for Pac-Man<\/em> that I posted it to Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scott Steinberg asks: who says video games aren’t art? Detractors can rightly argue that not every game technically fits the definition of art, or aspires to such lofty goals. Plenty of titles exist purely as profit-generating vehicles designed to cash in on TV shows, films and mindless pop culture artifacts. But by letting us assume […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,56,208],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-games","category-pac-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1320"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1756,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions\/1756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}