cybertext

Literature scholars eager to understand gaming have made early inroads. Markku Eskelinen sets up serious checkpoints.

First Person, second section: What is Ludology? Editors Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin see a disciplinary shift away from ill-advised analogies toward analyses of the gaming situation itself.

Casting the ludology vs. narratology debate as a game in itself, Henry Jenkins brings Bible gardens and the duck-billed platypus into this defense of hybridity.

The parallels (and oppositions) between hypertext and AI are brought out in section five.