Comments on: Is ppg256 Green? https://nickm.com/post/2013/08/is-ppg256-green/ Nick Montfort Fri, 30 Aug 2013 01:02:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Jim Leonard https://nickm.com/post/2013/08/is-ppg256-green/comment-page-1/#comment-21419 Fri, 30 Aug 2013 01:02:28 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=3192#comment-21419 Well put, and this is the argument I have with people who dismiss (with prejudice) this and related movements (art scenes, demoscene, tracking scenes, etc.)

Roger Ebert held the same belief regarding electronic games. When pressured with nearly pure examples of computer games that can only be classified as art, such as Flower, he invoked the One True Scotsman fallacy and claimed that, if a game becomes that artistic, it is no longer a game.

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