Espen Aarseth foresees the quick end of Murray's "story-game hybrid" and suggests instead a "critical theory of games."

In response to Perlin, Victoria Vesna reiterates the unique realism of games.

Secret agency is at issue in Frasca's response, which denies the application of Aristotle to the open-ended interactivity of gaming.

Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin introduce Cyberdrama, the first section of First Person.

Moving from the holodeck to the game board, Janet Murray explains why we make dramas of digital simulations.

Illustrating Perlin's "Can There Be a Form between a Game and a Story?"

Bryan Loyall cites expertly paced penguins in this response to Janet Murray.

Game-Story set theory.

The builder of Façade, an "interactive story world," Michael Mateas offers both a poetics and a neo-Aristotelian project (for interactive drama and games).

The man behind The Sims, Will Wright, places narrative controls back in the hands of gamers.

Nick Montfort reiterates the value of multiple perspectives on, and in, New Media.