hamlet on the holodeck
From Game-Story to Cyberdrama
Moving from the holodeck to the game board, Janet Murray explains why we make dramas of digital simulations.
Cyberdrama
Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin introduce Cyberdrama, the first section of First Person.
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.
Janet Murray’s response
Janet Murray unriddles the verbal and procedural mix of Interactive Fiction.