What Cybertext Theory Can't Do
byKatherine Hayles2001-02-15Riposte to: Cybertext Killed the Hypertext StarSource URL: I didn’t want to write this riposte to Markku Eskelinen’s “Cybertext Theory: What An English Professor Should Know...
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byPat Harrigan2004-05-01Source URL: Janet Murray, who coined the term cyberdrama, uses it to discuss a new type of storytelling – and a new type of story – that she sees emerging as the computer...
View ArticleEspen Aarseth responds
byEspen Aarseth2004-05-01Riposte to: From Game-Story to CyberdramaSource URL: “Games are always stories,” Janet Murray claims. If this really were true, perhaps professional baseball and football teams...
View ArticleGonzalo Frasca's response
byGonzalo Frasca2004-05-01Riposte to: A Preliminary PoeticsSource URL: Aristotelian interactive drama has been the holy grail of many theorists and designers for more than a decade. Certainly, Mateas’...
View ArticleBrenda Laurel responds (excerpt)
byBrenda Laurel2004-05-01Riposte to: A Preliminary PoeticsSource URL: Mateas’s new causal chains (as represented in his Figure 3.2) are based on a very interesting analysis and a good inversion....
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From Game-Story to Cyberdrama (Sidebar)
byJanet Murray2004-05-01Figure 1.sidebar.1: The areas of game and story have both independent and overlapping features, and for our discussion the areas of contest and puzzle are equally...
View ArticleWill Wright's response (excerpt)
byWill Wright2004-05-01Riposte to: Between a Game and a Story?From a design viewpoint the dramatic arc (and its associated character development) is the central scaffolding around which story is built....
View ArticleGenre Trouble
byEspen Aarseth2004-05-21Introduction: Stories and GamesCurrently in game and digital culture studies, a controversy rages over the relevance of narratology for game aesthetics. One side argues that...
View ArticleThe Code is not the Text (unless it is the Text)
byJohn Cayley2002-09-10Digital utopianism is still with us. It is with us despite having been tempered by network logistics and an all-too-reasonable demand for ‘content.’ Admittedly, New Media has...
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Shuffle Literature and the Hand of Fate
byZuzana Husárováand Nick Montfort2012-08-05IntroductionThe paper formulates the category “shuffle literature” to help reveal important qualities of certain intriguing works of fiction and poetry. We...
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