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> Games, like film, like music and like all the other storytelling mediums are a form of literature. It is completely normal and has always been like this when
by burntoutfire 5y ago
> Games, like film, like music and like all the other storytelling mediums are a form of literature. It is completely normal and has always been like this when it came to distribution - everybody wants to tell stories, but only a select few do it so well that they get to do it for a living.
This is metaphor stretched too far. How is Quake 3 Arena or Hearthstone a form of literature?
- scyzoryk_xyz 5y agoIt is. It’s not high literature or even recognized as such by critics, but 1. It means something to someone out there and 2. There are plenty of references and repurposed components in that that do come from the recognized serious literature. Everything is a remix, everything is being continuously repollinated and crossed over. Some works are more derivative than others.