It's interesting, because I was always a bit confused and annoyed by the Giant's Drink/Mind Game that Ender plays in Ender's Game. It just always felt so differ

It's interesting, because I was always a bit confused and annoyed by the Giant's Drink/Mind Game that Ender plays in Ender's Game. It just always felt so different to how games I knew played, it felt odd that he would "discover" things that the developers hadn't intended, because I always just thought "wait, someone had to build that into the game just in case he happened to do that one specific thing?" Or if it was implied that they didn't do that, then my thought was "that's not how this works, how is it coming up with new/emergent stories?" This feels almost exactly like that, especially the weird/dreamlike quality to it.