By this point we are catching up with present day Jimmy and though I’m sure there will be greater influences to come, the last big inspiration of mine came from the documentary Indie Game: the Movie. To this point, as I mentioned in the last entry. I had considered video games as a unique art form in their ability to involve the viewer like no other form of media. But unlike a painting of novel, I never considered the possibility of a video game, as a whole, being a reflection of an artist. Sure designs of specific elements of a game could reflect the designer who made it, but that is amidst the hundreds of others who worked on that game. Indie Game was proof that a game as a whole, from the art to the gameplay, could be the reflection of an individual.
Indie Game: the Movie is a telling of the trials and tribulations of several of the most successful independent game developers as they made the games that defined them, both professionally and personally. These developers pursued their deepest insecurities and fears and emotions and sought to reflect and describe those feelings through gameplay in addition to their visual art.
Gameplay could be like a form of poetry that could make the player feel what the designer was feeling. This solidified in my mind that video games in their entirety, from visual storytelling to the buttons you’re meant to push, are the ultimate art form.
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