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They are a subgenre of games. Visual novels, and interactive fiction is definietly computer games. The developers of interactive fiction are also game developer
by krisoft 3y ago
They are a subgenre of games. Visual novels, and interactive fiction is definietly computer games. The developers of interactive fiction are also game developers.
You wouldn’t say that “platformers” are not games just because we have a name for them.
- emsy 3y agoVisual novels are like choose your own adventure books with pictures. Are those books games? Is it useful to classify them as such?
- dudul 3y agoYes they are.
- constantcrying 3y agoTo me interactivity is the core element here. Platformers can only be interactive. There is nothing about a visual novel which has to be interactive, in fact the interactivity is usually limited to a few branching paths (although more involved VNs do exist). I think it is fine to count them as games as long as there is some interactivity, but that obviously puts them at the outer edge of what games are. To get back to the point, I think a visual novel should be eligible for a literature award, but that is because the interactivity is inherently limited.