Hey there fellow GiantBomb Community!
My name is Brett Mullaney, and I have been a longtime GiantBomb subscriber as well as a follower of the video game editorial and development communities for nearly two decades.
For the last several years, I have been determined to publish a book on video games as an art form, and attempt to bring a fresh perspective on the ways in which both those within the gaming community as well as those outside the community can understand the incredible potential that video games have to communicate on an artistic level that is unrivaled by other mediums.
I recently completed that endeavor, and published my first book, entitled The Greatest Art Form: Video Games and the Evolution of Artistic Expression. Having been born and evolved from my senior thesis project at the University of California, I really aimed to create a book that could analyze games and the gaming medium, not so much from a review perspective, but rather from a communications and analytical perspective, to really open up a discussion between both gamers and non-gamers about the ways video games, more than any other art form, hold the most limitless potential to ask us to reflect, not only on the art itself, but ourselves. The book contains analysis and critical dissection of some of the gaming world's most outstanding artistic achievements, including Silent Hill 2, Red Dead Redemption, BioShock and BioShock Infinite, Dishonored, Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, Flower and Journey, and The Elder Scrolls Series andFallout 3. In later volumes, I plan on analyzing other titles as well, continuing to incorporate past, present, and future releases.
You can find the first chapter of the book under my blog, entitled "What is Art?" I would love to get feedback from all of you in the gaming community on your thoughts on the work, either the chapter posted on my blog or the entire book itself. My hope is that the book will help bridge the discussion between the gaming world and the larger art and entertainment world in ways that haven't fully been realized.
If you would like to read the work in its entirety, the book is now available in both print and ebook formats on Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Apple iBooks, Kobo, and the Sony Reader Store. Also, feel free to visit the book's official website, www.thegreatestartform.com for more background and details about the book. I look forward to all of your feedback! Thanks for your support.
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