Games are not art!

[richardhutnik]

On, it is art or not, I have created a number of games.

I created The Activist Game, that when played, shows the futility of trying to do activism's folly in attempting to change the world. I also created a game called "The Quitting Game" that ends up with a result of people working against both the group's interest and their own, as a study piece to show that. I would consider both of these art using game mechanics to express an opinion I have. And the creation process is very intuitive. If these are not art, then what are they? And if there isn't an artistic process in creating them, then point to an algorithm used to create them and predict what my next game will be. If you can't, and show no signs of this being show, then you are hard pressed to say the process is not art.

The closest thing one has to showing game creation is not artistic is the computer program Ludi, which creates games:
http://www.purplepawn.com/2008/07/ludi-the-electronic-game-designer/

I will say this, if you say there isn't artistic ability in the creation of games, there is not art in the creation of anything.