Videoigre - estetska uloga igre i interaktivnosti.

Video games are one of the (popular) forms of media that have been developed through digital technologies and they are unique in terms of its processes of combining interactivity and the concept of games. However, they take on many aesthetic characteristics of traditional media, such as fine arts, literary and cinematic narrative structures, sound, music, etc. The process of integrating video games in the academic, artistic or cultural discourse keeps picking up the pace. The author analyses the aesthetic qualities of video games, the concept of playability and interactivity. He presents key theoretical and aesthetic concepts related to video games, singling out mechanics which bears the aesthetic potential of interactivity. Convergence has been presented, through digitalization, as an important process of integrating aesthetic characteristic into the new media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]