Markku Eskelinen
Of Tea Cozy and Link
Marjorie Coverley Luesebrink performs an autopsy on the hypertextual corpse.
Positioning Hypertext in Chomsky’s Hierarchy of Grammars
Jim Rosenberg sends a shot of grammar straight across the bow of Nick Montfort's controversial Cybertext review, adding volume to a volley already in progress.
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).
Gonzalo Frasca’s response
Secret agency is at issue in Frasca's response, which denies the application of Aristotle to the open-ended interactivity of gaming.
Michael Mateas responds in turn
Narrativists vs. ludologists, material vs. formal constraints: Michael Mateas replies by identifying actors' roles in each division.