Week Three Blog

ABOUT THE READING I found the Fretting the Character to be interesting in that it shows the relationship between the player and the game. I never thought of playing a game as being just a person steering a character. I guess that is what you are doing, but I have always thought about it as just playing. The writer kind of lost me when he was talking about the IF, then I realized he was talking about interactive fiction. When he was talking about Book and Volume he said that it was supposed to spark some sense of motivation, but I was not motivated in the slightest. Reading through the script of the game even left me wondering, what is the point? I am a nonconformist anyway, and do not like being confined to what the author has in store for me and what I should do, especially if I have to think and create the environment in my own head. Is Book and Volume a game or a story? When I read Interactive Fiction that is what I found myself asking. I think that if it looks like a story and feels like a story it must be a story. The game doesn’t let you go your own way it has a predefined destination that you need to adhere to. ABOUT THE GAMES I am not a big fan of the whole read and imagine sort of games. In fact this is the first time having engaged such a game first hand. I mean you are simply engaging in text, I can’t even possibly see how anyone would find this fun let alone amusing. There is also this sort of condescending attitude when you do something wrong as if you are an idiot and don’t know how to interact in real life. My mother always taught me If you have nothing nice to say don’t say it at all. I don’t have a whole lot of anything nice to say about this game, so we will leave it at that.