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20150814 - The Written Word

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+ +Growing older, I find that games, movies, TV are all limiting forms of entertainment, +and that by far the best form of story driven consumables is the book. +Right now I'm half through On the Steel Breeze by Alastair Reynolds, +taking a break to reflect. +Something was lost over the years as digital entertainment has evolved +from the soup of interactive text adventures. +Certainly enjoy the visual representation of a good story, +but I enjoy more the freedom to explore stories +which could never gain the support necessary for a non-literary translation. +Early in gaming there was an interesting balance +forced by the limitations of the machine, +where the written word took the place of electronically "physically" realizing everything in the game. +Would be great once and a while to trade the modern game single player storyline, played out in "cut scenes", +with a story of the caliper of a great novel, represented instead in "cut pages" of text. +Then shifting the focus of development and polish back into the game itself. +
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