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

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

"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.

Stuart Moulthrop complicates the idea of self-contained games.