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Are games art? It's been asked many times before and will be asked many times again. Garriot gives his take over at Gamasutra.

"Are games art? They can, and I think, should be. How much "art" there is in a game is up to the developer.

There's a lot of games which I'll describe as just pulp [as in the magazine genre], but absolutely: I think there's lots of great art in games. A lot of my favorite games, actually, are the ones we think of as the most artistic. Games like Myst, or American McGee's Alice, Abe's Oddysee."

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Last Updated: Mar 13, 2016

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