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Markku Eskelinen’s response
Henry Jenkins responds in turn

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.

Ian Bogost’s response to Critical Simulation

Ian Bogost, the co-designer of The Howard Dean for Iowa Game (along with First Person contributor Gonzalo Frasca), deconstructs section three.

A Preliminary Poetics

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

Janet Murray responds in turn

Animals and invaders populate the space of Janet Murray's counter-response.