Videogames versus other arts
============================


**Artist:** I made a watercolor of teenagers at a picnic. See how the transparency of the paints highlights the interplay of light and shadow on their faces?

**Composer:** I came up with a short symphonic piece on the same theme. Hear this bit? Note how the flutes can suggest either birds chirping or the happy chatter of carefree teens.

**Playwright:** I wrote a romantic comedy about teenagers at a picnic accidentally revealing the crushes the have on each other.

**The other two:** Nice! When can we see it?

**Game developer:** (smugly) Whatever, check this out: We just finished an in-house graphics engine that takes advantage of the new mega-texture multy-layering via dynamic shader chaining of the new HS7979xTreme+ GPU. You can look at a tree and see every single leaf dancing on the breeze.

**Artist:** (impressed) So you're making an interactive piece about the beauty of trees?

**Game developer:** No way, that would be boring, man! It's a game where you shoot bad guys in the face.

**The other three:** ...

**Game developer:** What? You should see the ragdoll physics!