Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by arsome 1141 days ago
> no code can be art. For instance, videogames.

I feel like this is probably a pretty bad example, generally the "art" in video games comes from things like dialogue, storytelling, level design, graphical art, not the physics engine or the renderer. There is simply not art there, it's more engineering.

There's little more art in the code portion of video games than there is in a jet engine.

1 comments

Again, I hear art here often as "that nice cover illustration, or that 3d model". A bit like people talk about "content".

Art can be anything, and I definitely consider some videogames art. The same can be said about architecture.