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The Rules of the Game
Virginia Kuhn reviews an essay collection - Cybertext: Yearbook 2000 - ambivalent about its own printed status.
Interactive Fiction
Which alias best fits interactive fiction?
The nominees are:
"Story," "Game," "Storygame," "Novel," "World,"
"Literature," "Puzzle," "Problem," "Riddle," and "Machine."
Read, and decide.
From Game-Story to Cyberdrama
Moving from the holodeck to the game board, Janet Murray explains why we make dramas of digital simulations.
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.