the sims
Patched In: A Conversation with Anne-Marie Schleiner about Computer
Gaming Culture
An essay by Tara McPherson (and a conversation with Anne-Marie Schleiner) concerning patch mutations, opensorcery, and other explainable gaming offshoots.
From Game-Story to Cyberdrama
Moving from the holodeck to the game board, Janet Murray explains why we make dramas of digital simulations.
First
Person: Introduction
Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin introduce First Person, an interactive, multi-player collaboration between ebr and the MIT Press.
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?