Blog: "The player - The artist?"

[Leu Radu]

Yes they are.

Very convincing.


I have to agree with Thomas. What artists really do is express feelings, ideas, motifs through their art, creating tools for your imagination.

The person who experiences art (read a book, poetry, see a movie, examine a painting, a sculpture etc.) only reacts to it. Every man reacts differently, according to his personal characteristics. His imagination expands around the work of art, and he may create things from scratch in his mind (for example hidden meanings that don't actually exist). Experiencing art is not an art.

Games are of course totally different from other arts because they are interactive, while a book or a movie are not. But, in the end, gamers just experience the game. They don't create anything*, they just react to the things the game already has. Of course, they might get the sensation that they're artists, but in the end they just do what the real artists (game makers) offered them through the game mechanics and world.

*There are exceptions of course, games that allow artistic expression (like Minecraft). Thomas mentioned this in the post.