Games can be many different things besides a time diversion. An important thing that games can be is an artistic or storytelling medium. Is a novel a "time dive

Games can be many different things besides a time diversion. An important thing that games can be is an artistic or storytelling medium. Is a novel a "time diversion"? It probably depends on the work. One of the benefits of games is that the subtitles of the interaction can also be part of the story. A touch screen, unfortunately, offers only a small set of possible interactions, and thus it has a limited toolset for telling interactive stories. This is important, because we are just learning how to use interaction as a expressive tool. I highly recommend watching Innuendo Studios' "Story Beats"[1]. The first 3 clips are examples, and the last (4th) has the main essay. The thesis is that games offer the storyteller a different set of tools. Video (movies), for example, can generally only access your sympathetic emotions (you feel excited/sad/etc for the character), while interaction allows other emotions to be experience first-hand. [1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJA_jUddXvY4f8-eoY0mg7gzXoqhBYN6y https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJA_jUddXvY4f8-eoY0mg...