Video games are expressive, unique works of art. For decades, video games have inspired and entertained, and now they are the topic of a new exhibit that views them as major works of art. Art is the "expression of creative skill and imagination in a visual form" such as painting, digital, animation or sculpture. Video games should be consider as a work of art because designers make the elements and principles of art stand out in the video games with the help of creativity, detail and storytelling. What helps make a video game popular is the creativity that is bulit inside of them.Five Nights at Freddy's, or FNAF, is a great example of this element. Scott Cawthon, the creator of FNAF, made this video game as a horror genre that includes multiple jumpscares and high amounts of suspense for the players. What makes this game like no other video game is that Scott puts 'clues' ,or also called 'easter-eggs', into the game itself to give the player hints of an upcoming series of FNAF video games that Scott will make in the near future. With these hints around the …show more content…
People like to think anything which creates some sort of emotional reaction or engagement to be art, but that's incredibly messy use of language; language and words are clearly defined for a reason. Video games are defined by interaction and experience. Art, as much as pretentious, self-proclaimed "artists" and "art connoisseurs " would like people to believe, is not experienced, it is observed (Ebert 2). However, that doesn't make it any less valuable, it's just an observation as to how a person views of it. On the same token, saying that games are not art is not a slight against them at all. People like to think that there is some negative stigma on games, that they are somehow less valuable than art is. Well, life itself suggests otherwise. Games, and the very nature of "play," have been instrumental in the development of