lara croft
Between a Game and a Story?
Ken Perlin on a game-narrative difference that makes a difference: does agency, rather than identifiction, make characters in a game seem more real than those in novels or films?
Between a Game and a Story? (Sidebar)
Illustrating Perlin's "Can There Be a Form between a Game and a Story?"
Genre Trouble
"Where is the text in chess?" asks Espen Aarseth. Rules, play, and semiosis are the (un)common ground between games and stories in "interactive narrativism" and the art of simulation.