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Craft and StructureVery hardRedefining authorship

Craft and Structure practice question

Text 1 A critic claims that video games cannot be art, because the player rather than the maker decides what happens. Text 2 A game designer replies that the designer decides what the player is able to do and what each choice will mean. The freedom is designed, she argues, and a designed freedom is authorship of a different kind.

Based on the texts, how would the designer in Text 2 most likely respond to the critic's claim?

  1. A. By accepting that players make choices while arguing that designing those choices is itself a form of authorship.Correct
  2. B. By denying that players make any choices in games.
  3. C. By agreeing that video games cannot be art.
  4. D. By arguing that games should give players no freedom at all.

Answer: A. By accepting that players make choices while arguing that designing those choices is itself a form of authorship.

Text 2 doesn't dispute player choice; it relocates authorship to the design of the choices.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. By denying that players make any choices in games.
Text 2 speaks of 'the freedom' the player has.
C. By agreeing that video games cannot be art.
Text 2 argues games have authorship, against the critic.
D. By arguing that games should give players no freedom at all.
Text 2 values designed freedom, not its removal.

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