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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 6230207">I never said it was, but I think music and engineering are very different when it comes to advancements.  In music, poetry and other arts you have forms that evolve, but you can always freely visit older forms. I can still write a sonnet or opera, even though both music and poetry have evolved. There is more subjectivity in art than science. A lot of what we call advancements, are just trends or changes in taste. Same with game design. We do learn as we go but too often I think people just say ' outdated design' because they don't like something that still has a certain amount of popularity.and while we are getting lost a bit in examples, I focus on it because it's relevant to what your arguing: that art advances like science. I think I am showing advancements in art are often about subjective sensibilities of the time. There are proper advances in that you can create new tools and options, but the old options still have relevance. That is less true for sciences. Especially when you focus on composition.</blockquote>