Class Discussion of Ebert

Ebert decides to use a definition from Wikipedia for the definition of art: "Art is the process of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions." He then proceeds to say that this resembles a chess game. I disagree, on the grounds that a game of chess is not designed in a form to specifically appeal to senses or emotions. Chess is a game that, while it certainly contains metaphors, is designed to display one players prowess over the other, not to trigger emotions of activate senses. Ebert's definition of a game is obviously not to the proper level, judging by this comparison. Games like Okami are created to be aesthetically pleasing and scenes in Portal were created to trigger emotions. Emotions that were tied to a metal block(Companion Cube) because the writing of the game was good enough to create an emotional tie to a chunk of metal.

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