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Yes, video games are an art form. Today I give some love for the video games.

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Music and links from this episode

1. To run in an elevator in a dream in a fiction in space by Monplaisir
2. Simplify and Black Riders Anthem by Little Glass Men
3. YFMIFY by Alpha Hydrae

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1. Videogames have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember
2. I don’t remember much of my youth
3. Because I have a terrible memory for important things like that
4. But I do remember pretty much all of my video game consoles
5. And boy, did I have a lot of them
6. Atari, Commodore 64, NES, SNES, Dreamcast, Mastersystem, N64, Playstation, XBOX… I’ll stop there
7. Today I want to talk about design in a different medium
8. The video game
9. This is AADA, and I’m Craig Burgess
10. MUSIC
11. Video games are dismissed
12. And they’re dismissed a lot
13. They’re dismissed because they’re dangerous,
14. they’re silly,
15. they rot your brain
16. they make you fat
17. oh yeah, and they inspire you to kill people, rape people, or generally do harm you wouldn’t normally do to people
18. And finally, Games are for kids, right?
19. Wrong
20. Despite making a cool $91 billion per year globally
21. And that’s more than Hollywood by the way
22. Video games still aren’t taken seriously
23. They’re not considered a serious medium
24. And they’re still seen by lots of people as something for kids
25. People don’t say this about music, or books or films
26. But they do still say it about video games
27. And if I was to tell you that video games are art
28. I’d be laughed out of at least 50% of the rooms I walked into
29. But, they ARE art
30. And they’re more engrossing than every other artistic medium that exists today
31. Games have made me laugh, made me sad, made me scared, and made me question my entire existence
32. Sometimes they’re throwaway experiences and sometimes they’re serious
33. Every single one of them have affected me in a way no other traditional art form could do
34. And it’s all because video games have a secret trick up their sleeve
35. It’s because they're interactive
36. And this is the power that video games has over any other medium
37. Sure, some pieces of art can be interactive
38. But a lot of it isn’t
39. And most pieces of music you listen to you can’t affect with your actions
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