Reaserch Freewrite

                Videogames have been rising in popular culture witch has led to many arguments about whether they should be classified as art. There have been many arguments for and against this classification citing many reasons for this media to not be classified as art and many reasons for it. As videogames have slowly increased in complexity and emotional depth it is becoming harder for many of those with a dissenting opinion to argue against the idea this media has become the newest form of art. Videogames should be art because they can invoke deep emotional responses; they have many parallels to literary and visual artistic media, and take a great amount of devotion from both their creators and players.

                Many sources I have already found speak a lot about the complexities of philosophies behind art supplying reasons while videogames could never fit these philosophies or how they do fit. One of the sources I have found states that videogames cannot be art because they are created by a team and have no singular creator as the developmental process occurs more like the development of an idea in a think tank. Another source argues it should be art for the same reasons because as a collaborative effort could bring a deeper more multifaceted meaning than a single person could produce. Another argument raised is that videogame developers do not create art only popular culture. In their opinion art is purchased in galleries by connoisseurs, therefore videogames are not the art because the way they are presented to the media. This is a very limited view of art which excludes many widely recognized forms of art due to personal ideologies. A few of my sources state the aesthetic values of modern videogames make them art while others state the emotional attachment one could forge with the characters.

                Many problems I plan to encounter are a lack of credible sources and my own opinions about the subject coming in to play. Some ways I may overcome these problems is that I may search for sources that mirror my own opinions and find several with dissenting opinions to use in place of my own voice on the subject. In order to find more credible sources I may search for resources outside of the internet setting when trying to find sources to use in my paper