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Is Life (a living experience) a Game?

Yes. Life is a series of deterministic cause and effects based upon choices where an end is open and undetermined, life simply runs upon and has rules and laws centered around datasets, and living life requires one to put themselves in willfully.

No. Life is what or who or whom experiences a set of datasets and laws, but simply is rather life chooses to play or not.

No. Life has feeling and consequences that has a potential of ruining integrity.

Yea. Life does have the potential of integrity loss, but that is simply evolution and adaptation. The meaning of life is to live and to die. Life is the game sequence of life and death; the only constant is change.

Maybe. Life is what you make it, and you get out of it what you put into it. If life is the experience of choices and a game is made out of it then sure, but if life is the root then a game is simply a large part of life.

This is a silly question as anyone could simply start their own company and declare themselves CEO, although they wouldn’t be CEO of much.

Life is the story that unfolds as choices are made and includes value. Life is not a game, life is more like a diary and only contains games because of confusion, boredom, and denial. Life is more less how things such as games are playable.

Games are where we go when Life ends and Life is where we go when Games end, however each is a distraction from states of being.

Life is a person. Life plays games, and games often include life memory or reference or life itself. Life is the fruit of experience and being, and is not a game.

Life is the created and is a energy force in all there is, life simply is. Life is a choice, a component of a game or perhaps a way of creating. A game could simply be a child of life.

Something else. A currency perhaps. What we wrap ourselves around. A name? A game is simply what we do with the life we are while living.

Something else.

Life is a narrative of a liver, an experience. A game is the track a player follows, life only has boundaries when games are played or imposed. There are many types of games but only one life. A measure is simply a duration life stays bound within a game.

Life is a measure, a duration, of an ever living being or entity or thing within a boundary, game. What the output of life and a game is a choice. If the choice is denied it is dead until lived.

Life is a placeholder and a game is composed of at least one living and one dead or two living. A game is what births living or causes dead or births choices for the next to come. Life is but an addiction as much as a game is.

Games are how we remember and how we cope with the harsh dealings of life.

A game is recreation or acceptance of creation with the recreation and creation concepts and stories acted out once more, a series of what ifs. Life is what is, regardless of a game or not.

#1 · December 31, 2024, 9:40 am

A Discussion of Interactive Art :: Art that pertains to or is of or relating to Video Games, Tabletop Games, and the like.

#2 · December 31, 2024, 9:40 am

A Suggestion as a Category for Video Game Art.

Video Game and TableTop Game art are often multifaceted, including many variations of art.

Visual Art and Literature Art is often included as part of video game and tabletop game art and there is definitely an imaginative and storytelling art element to it. The ultimate goal of a video game or a table too game is to capture the player in the moment and share a similar story or experience with the player(s). Such is often an interaction, or in action, where whomever is playing a game is involved in engaging with the art, in creating a function the art, giving life to the art via interaction, showing the arts worth, or giving value, or becoming part of the art itself as they interact with it; thus stepping away and stepping in causes the art to be both dynamic and static, a lively piece. Sometimes there is an interaction with the artist themselves.

Hence, interactive art, is just vague enough and expansive and focused enough to encompass what would be considered gaming, as the term Gaming Art can be a bit confusing because such would imply art pieces gaming with eachother, which would actually be quite awesome.

I think that the ancients had a term for this, which is religious art, but that simply got carried away as morals were applied to it, thus becoming its own category. Fan art is similar but not quite, and life art and death art wouldn’t exactly fit, but since games whether video or tabletop often involves an act (dice, controllers, movement, scripts, identies, and fun play), interactive, hence entering into an act, seems to fit as a category.

#3 · January 5, 2025, 6:37 pm

I think what you're asking for already exists. "Interactive Media" is, effectively, the same as "Interactive Art" as "media" is just the plural of "medium" as in a category of art.

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Or I could have TOTALLY misread your post, but even after a couple of re-reads... I'm not entirely sure if you're asking for a new category, or if you're just wanting to have a discussion about video game and tabletop art.

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