Fred Saberhagen Quotes

You can even express movies and poetry using video games. For those reasons, I've decided to create stories through video games.

There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types.

The video game market is huge, and the ability to tell stories, and tell different kinds of stories in the gaming space is quickly evolving and changing for the better.

Personally I find there is just as much if not more creativity among game makers as there is among feature filmmakers.

Computer games can be works of art and literature - they're still developing. The stories they can tell, and the experiences they provide, are increasingly sophisticated and glorious.

I mean, of course there's art in video games - duh.

Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore or embrace video games and imbue them with the best artistic quality. People are enthralled with video games in the same way as other people love the cinema or theatre.

Game development combines all this disparate art stuff I'd been doing into one single thing that I could use to say very specific stuff.

I love games. I honestly can't imagine working with any other medium. I guess it would be akin to an artist who's doing commercial art and then goes into education, but it really frees you up to do all other kinds of creative stuff.

Games are advancing in terms of storytelling and trying to create a character, and it's a brand new audience for me.

Games are getting more interesting. I mean, when we talk about books, they can be anything from a summer blockbuster to 'War and Peace' - well, games are the same. I think the creative side is catching up with the technology.

I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.

I mostly associated video game storytelling with unforgivable clumsiness, irredeemable incompetence - and suddenly, I was finding the aesthetic and formal concerns I'd always associated with fiction: storytelling, form, the medium, character. That kind of shocked me.

Games aren't going to go away. BAFTA's got a category for games as an art form. The Academy should think about that, too.

Often the art in a video game is like glorified Thomas Kinkade, but some of it is genuinely enchanting and compelling.

I know it's become an ongoing thing about whether videogames are art, and I think there's plenty of examples of things that use the form in a fascinating way. Things that are more surreal or artistic, like 'Katamari Damacy' or 'Vib-Ribbon.'

It's weird that, in a way, by writing about video games, I get to develop them, too.

Video games are an exciting medium. The creativity of design, the technology and the interaction represent the best of American innovation.

We have a whole industry which is gigantic: games. Games is very successful. It's its own art form, though, and it's not the same as a linear narrative.

An entire generation of talented people - engineers, artists, scriptwriters, musicians, programmers - have been busy creating a whole new art form for us. The name of this new game is interactivity.

Video games are the first new artistic medium since television, but they are more different from television than television was from cinema; they are the newest new thing since the arrival of the movies just over a century ago.

Games get a bad press compared with, say, opera - even though they're obviously better, because no opera has ever compelled an audience member to collect a giant mushroom and jump across some clouds.

I think that painting is a very ancient form of expression.

All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.

I've done a lot of video games and stuff, and I'm getting better and better at it. I don't have a prejudice about it being a different medium.