VS Node 5: The Art of Videogames

Published: June 30, 2009, 9:30 p.m.

b'Eddie Inzauto and Christos Reid welcome Big Red Potion Podcast host Sinan Kubba to Versus Node for a stimulating discussion of games as art, as well as Michael Jackson, mergers, jiggle physics, and more.\\n\\n00:00 - Welcome! Introductions.\\n01:44 - What we\'ve been playing.\\n01:49 - Sinan\'s been playing...\\n03:47 - Christos has been playing...\\n06:20 - Eddie\'s been playing...\\n07:33 - News.\\n07:38 - Michael Jackson\'s death.\\n12:25 - Zenimax Media buying id. \\n13:30 - Bethesda building FPS library.\\n14:51 - Mark Jacobs leaving Mythic.\\n16:43 - Koei Tecmo Ltd. merger.\\n17:40 - Jiggle physics.\\n18:53 - Japan\'s videogame porn.\\n21:23 - The human form is artistic.\\n21:51 - Games as art discussion.\\n22:36 - What is art?\\n32:19 - Art as it applies to games.\\n33:53 - Art vs. high art. Where do games lie?\\n35:18 - Braid artists vs. Van Gogh.\\n39:00 - The art of creation.\\n39:39 - What\'s more important: audio/visual or deeper meaning?\\n41:50 - Taking the author out of the equation.\\n45:05 - Observation and apprectiation without preconception.\\n46:38 - Poetic and literary depth. Interpretation.\\n48:44 - Where does the art lie? Game, gamer, or designer?\\n51:51 - Thanks and outro.\\n\\nIntro music, "Downstream" by Shira Kammen, from Jonathan Blow\'s Braid 2008. "Don\'t Stop \'Til You Get Enough" by Michael Jackson, 1979.'