Bioware Video Games Lecture at BAFTA

Games developer BioWare specialises in role-playing, strategy and MMO games, including Star Wars: The Old Republic and Mass Effect. Drs. Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk are BioWare's co-founders. Watch highlights from their games lecture at BAFTA.

The full lecture is available to watch on BAFTA Guru: http://guru.bafta.org/bioware-annual-video-games-lecture-video

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• BioWare
• Lecture
• Games
• gaming
• arts
• technology
• Zeschuk
• Muzyka

[xxYdoxxx]

Games are the ultimate form of art.

Yes, I'm saying it's better than just a painting or just a song...

Because Games do use Concepts ( Paintings and Songs )... If you stop to think about it... Games do use all forms of existing "art".

At least in my concept of art.

[kea919306]

Kinda ironic that this comes from Bioware who last we saw made DA2 a game with as much depth as a puddle

[MrWaeseL]

Games aren't art. Disliked.

[ArchhereticK]

All artifice (man-made objects) can be considered art, this was established almost a hundred years ago by Marcel Duchamp. There is no serious debate whether or not video games are art. The debate exists because of the tax breaks involved when something is legally considered art.

Video games are too profitable for most governments to ever consider them to be art.

[pmilleroly27]

@sygnus5 But a few are the best pieces of art.

[lancer081292]

@NerdARGyle999 well i say that bioware games can be art in much the same way a play can be art

[NerdARGyle999]

Games can easily be art.

Just, not Bioware games. Bioware isn't a good judge of what is and what isn't art.

[storageheater]

Didnt Bioware go 'We're going to make a Dragon Age anime because anime is well respected in US culture'

it is truly the purest of the arts.

Advertising uses songs, artwork and concepts too, and that is...oh, god, it probably is art, as far as they're concerned. I would concede that games are a little more valid if they started showing what it actually looks like when someone is shot in the head, though. So far all games are merely cartoons, let's make the shift to realism truly real.

[sygnus5]

Games are Art.

But almost all of them are incredibly shitty pieces of art

[meamud]

When thinking of art, people can immediately think of specific examples in movies, music, visual art, etc. But when the average person thinks of video games, they see pacman or mindless killing like in COD, they do not have a variety of examples to see from so they just assume it isn't art, I agree that certain games aren't art. But to dismiss video games as an art form is ignorant. If people play games like Mass Effect, I think they will undoubtedly see that video games can be considered art.

[LoxG]

They drag Tolstoy into the argument, but I doubt they've actually ever read him. Otherwise they would know how ludicrous the comparison is.

Games as a medium can definitely be art. It's just that most - if not all - are not at the moment.

Most games are mass produced for childish adolescents and have b-film storytelling aimed at mindless escapism.

That's where the real innovations will need to take place the coming years imho, especially when the graphical improvements will start to plateau.

[1AaroUin]

@DafyddCymraeg Thay're powerful paintings, novels, films and games.