it is also art. Games are more than strings of code, even though digital. Same as a digital movie or an mp3 song is also not considered software, though they are also really just strings of code

The fun thing is that in my country, we pay a "media fee" on blank media which goes towards our RIAA-likes. It's some sort of compensation that is supposed to legitimize private copying. If games are art, then it would be nice if we could copy it like any other art.

Same in Germany, but games still don't fall under the category of art. Otherwise some censorship issues would simply vanish. For example, it's allowed to use 3rd Reich symbols in art (pictures, movies), whereas it's forbidden to display them elsewhere (e.g. in games). However, on the opening of Gamescom 2017 Chancellor Angela Merkel clearly expressed that games can be considered art, so hopefully this gets us forward in official classification.

look...I'm a programmer and I do consider myself some sort of artisan...but when someone else calls it art, it always sound extremely stupid, hippie and plain boring XD

now, a string of 0s and 1s don't make up for code, although technically speaking it is, specifically, music is not "code", a movie is not "code", etc....those ain't coded, more like systematically converted to binary code

software is software, period, regardless of it's nature of creation, "objectives in life" and all the blah blahs that animal-right-defenders and/or fat-Gabe-just-loves-money may come up with



that of course, get one of those well-payed fiendish lawyers and you can convince a judge that a lion is not an animal, it's a form of art of the creation

if it goes into a floppy, it's software
if I can divekick it, it's hardware

Hey! I take offence to that. I actually have a massive 30 games finished...

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out of 1026. "Never" actually seems pretty close.

Mmmm...finish 30 games is minimal, not massive.
I think many people here have finished hundreds of games.

Downvotes of the original are very unwarranted I think; it was a very polite post.

± a few, depending on whether you count multiple episodes as one game (as GOG sometimes do), or as multiple (as they do in other cases). I may have finished a couple games outside of GOG, as well.

Regardless, I should probably have made the joke more obvious by surrounding "massive" with quotation marks.