Is it gaming's loss if great literature aren't games? The majority of Twine games have no interactivity at all, which pretty much removes a fundamental thing th

Is it gaming's loss if great literature aren't games? The majority of Twine games have no interactivity at all, which pretty much removes a fundamental thing that defines a game. Same with most visual novels, they are called games too but really aren't. I know I am in a shrinking minority here, but I don't mind if things can be good but not be called games. Some Twine games have interactivity and some don't. Most are bad because it doesn't matter how simple the tool is to use, it still takes work and skill to write something entertaining. I have played some pretty fun Twine games but they really are just like reading a book with punctuated pacing. The reality is that you can do this with plain old books too (you can for instance break a sentence from one page to the next, surprising the reader with a twist, or just a surprise ending, period) but nobody calls them games. Choose your own adventure books are called choose your own adventure books. They all have more interactivity than most Twine games. What I find really interesting is that so many of the same people that want games and interactive media criticism to be taken seriously get so massively bent out of shape when you actually, you know, participate in that and criticize what they're asserting (I am talking about critics and game journalists here, there are ludic studies that are academically sound and subject themselves to confrontational challenge.) If you push the issue it turns into a meta argument about who gets to call what a game, which is a legitimate question but at the end of the day a bunch of serious game journalists and game forum moderators call Depression Quest a game and I get shunned for disagreeing so I don't totally take their underdog posturing seriously and consider its invocation to usually be dishonest. Part of being taken seriously is being able to defend claims rather than just attacking the person contradicting you. Anyway, here is a Twine game that I really enjoyed, it even has an anti-gamergate story: http://storycade.com/twine-quings-quest-vii-death-videogames/ http://storycade.com/twine-quings-quest-vii-death-videogames... It was part of "Ruin Jam 2014", a game jam whose name plays on the claim that "SJWs are trying to ruin gaming."