Video games are OFFICALLY recognized as ART by NEA

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Originally Posted by Smarty McBarrelpants

I'm kind of annoyed by this, it will just drain funds from other arts and I don't thikn the videogame industry needs it. Evena s the most indepedent videogame developer it is still seems that it would be so much easier to make a living than as an indepedent artist or sculptor or such like- your market is so much bigger, you make your product you can sell it infinite times, distribution channels are much easier and there are big companies that can pick up your work/you that don't exist for other arts. Unless they re massively increasing NEA funding I don't see it as beneficial.

Also people talking about videogames now achieving a title as "art"- there is no such title or category and if there was it wouldn't be decided by government funding boards.

this is not for people wanting to make a living, this is for people that want to contribute to culture without having to sell their blood for rent money.

Think about it, this means people can now make games that aren't commercially viable. Games on political commentary, interactive teaching tools, games that are a fully immersive painting. If used right this can generate an entirely new art culture that we haven't seen since creation of movies