Video Games as an Art Form | Noah Lin | TEDxTheMastersSchool

Do you consider video games to be nothing more than idle entertainment? Or do you see them as promoting brain rot, or, worse, encouraging violent or worse behavior? In this talk, Noah Lin encourages us to leave these common assumptions about video games behind. How, he asks, can a form of media that combines cinematography, psychology, creative writing, acting, computer programming, political and social commentary, huge bounds of technical innovation, and immersive and personal interactivity, not be called art? By walking us through some especially impactful games, Lin hopes his TEDx Talk will expand our horizons. Noah Lin is an aspiring soundtrack artist and a video game enthusiast. Video games have played an important role in his life since childhood, and over the last several years he has been enthusiastically playing and analyzing video games as works of art in their design, psychology and aesthetics. He has soundtracked multiple game jam submissions, immersed himself in the world of game design, and is excited to share his perspective through his TEDx Talk. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx