Easier said than done. It is fine and well to decide to give video games a second chance, but what does that actually mean? As Lui notes, the debate over whether or not games are art stems partly (if not mostly) from the difficulty in defining art. My proposal is that, instead of limiting ourselves to one definition which might happen to suit our fancy, we look back over history and see how video games measure up across the board, from the mimetic theory of art to Formalism, from Romanticism and Expressionism to Anti-Essentialism and the Art World view. What would David Hume say about video games? Or Kant? Or Plato, or Tolstoy, or Danto, or Weitz?
Discord
Do you make little art games, or "game poems" to express yourself to the world? Would you like to see more videogames that tackle every aspect of human experience—the interior stuff, as well as the exterior stuff? Do you make games during the day and read poetry at night—or vice versa? Would you be interested in a cozy space where you could talk about this stuff with other game makers without being considered weird?
If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, join my Game Poets Discord!