Talk:Videogame art

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Added the Ludology mergeto; while I don't think either Ludology or Machinima encompasses this article's content completely, "Artistic computer game modification" seems, to me, to be crying out to be merged, or split between several articles, or . . . something. It seems a bit overbroad. Also, from what I understand, Treewave writes their music on older computers, especially C64s, but not necessarily inside game environments. Anyone have any thoughts? - Tzaquiel 09:10, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] why merge?

I don't see anything to be merged here. This would the same mistake as merging Video art with Video, Internet art with Web design, Sound art with Music, etc.. Game-art is an artistic genre, not a design technique. One change that could be done though, could be to rename the article as "Computer game art" (as a branch of Software art) so that it includes not only modifications, but also simple "artistic" games created from scratch. --spAs 13:42, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

I'm in agreement. "Computer Game Art" or "Videogame Art" sound much better defined and less all-encompassingly cumbersome. I'll rename the page in a week or two if there's no objection. - Tzaquiel 18:02, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Strongly oppose merging - this is a distinct subgenre of digital art and not the same as machinima. Strongly support renaming this article "videogame art" (prefer this to "computer game art") as it better describes the range of work in this field. When/if that article grows too big, we can split part of it off into a "Mod art" page (prefer that shorter and more commonly used title to "Artistic computer game modification"). - DryCleanOnly 21:32, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, merging is out for me, as well. I made the merge recommendation many moons ago, when there was not an awful lot of content here. The article has come into its own and has a good deal more focus than it did previously, and certainly deserves to be kept - but the name still kind of sucks, IMHO. Tzaquiel 13:35, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Removed cleanup spam tag in artists section as it seemed inappropriate given that all the links were internal Wikipedia links. Also removed timeline section as it was so incomplete (3 items) it wasn't worth having. DryCleanOnly 13:56, 25 January 2007 (UTC)