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Playable Media and Textual Instruments
The statement that "this is not a game" has been employed in many ways — for example, to distinguish between high and low culture electronic texts, to market an immersive game meant to break the "magic circle" that separates games from the rest of life, to demarcate play experiences (digital or otherwise) that fall outside formal game definitions, and to distinguish between computer games and other forms of digital entertainment. This essay does not seek to praise some uses of this maneuver and condemn others. Rather, it simply points out that we are attempting to discuss a number of things that we play (and create for play) but that are arguably not games. Calling our experiences "interactive" would perhaps be accurate, but overly broad. An alternative — "playable" — is proposed, considered less as a category than as a quality that manifests in different ways. "Playable media" may be an appropriate way to discuss both games and the "not games" mentioned earlier.
Jörgen Schäfer - 05.07.2011 - 13:35
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North Meets South: Jorge Luis Borges's "The Interloper" and Natalie Bookchin's Media Experiment "The Intruder"
Discusses digital adaptations of Borges in general and then gives a close reading of Bookchin's The Intruder.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 01.10.2015 - 11:29
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Making Games That Makes Stories
James Wallis uses genre as the fulcrum for balancing game rules and narrative structure in story-telling games, which he differentiates from RPGs through their emphasis on the creation of narrative over character development.
The source is the essay-review on www.electronicbookreview.com written by James Wallis.
Kristina Igliukaite - 11.05.2020 - 22:57
