For France, Video Games Are as Artful as Cinema

I'm sure most of you would agree that the videogame industry is following a path similar to cinema, in terms of appeal, acadmeic legitimacy, and social worth. Videogames seem to be garnering more respect as an art form, and France is officially recognizing this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/06/business/worldbusiness/06game.html

What are your thoughts on this?

There's games bent on making money, there's games for entertainment, there's games for education, there's artistic games...

Games are just another media, with various sides just like other media. They're not all socially valuable or artistic, but such games certainly exist. Nice to see people acknowledging this. On the other hand, I don't see much artistic games coming from the current top-ranked game developers, in terms of innovation or creatitivy. It's probably the smaller games, developed by small independent groups, that may carry on this role, with some exceptions here and there. Well, that's hard to predict I guess. We'll see how this media develops over time. :smile:

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Oh God. While that sounds like a good idea, the whole "the French government needs to have input for it to qualify for tax break" thing doesn't sound like a good idea.

I hope this doesn't begin developing like the film industry did (which in a lot of ways it already has). That would mean within 20 years, there'd only be big budget games, and any smaller titles will be labels "inde" then there'd be a huge independent developer trend.

Oh wait.

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

I hope this doesn't begin developing like the film industry did (which in a lot of ways it already has). That would mean within 20 years, there'd only be big budget games, and any smaller titles will be labels "inde" then there'd be a huge independent developer trend

It's called EA

Game creation is, indeed, an art form - and that obtuse commercial titles garner more reputation than better but quieter pieces only confirms this.

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