Twilord on 11 August 2014
The thing is game design isn't just one art. Level design, music, character modelling / animation, and gameplay mechanics are just some of the arts that go into game design.
Gelling that all together is another artform. Super Mario 3D World is a masterpiece of coherent surrealist art. The Last of Us is also an artistic masterpiece but it uses the same basic options of game design to create something that is insanely different to Super Mario 3D World.
Much like with film, discussing games as an art is a discussion of the subtle arts there within - primarily in terms of their quality and their cohesion.
