Toward Creative Critique of Digital Games

Proposal of a Useful Framework for Understanding the Subject Matter of Digital Games as Artwork through Visual Elements

Abstract

This thesis constructs a model for understanding the subject matter of digital games as artwork through visual elements.The term visual elements refers to everything expressed on the display and it is an important means for a game designer to transmit his intention to a game player. In this thesis, I suggest that game-playing is the interaction of games and players through visual information, and I aim to build a model of the inner construction of digital games with in that interaction.