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Message: [QUOTE="Gorse, post: 20993, member: 73"] It entirely depends on what piece of IF you’re referring to. I’ve always thought of IF as more of a medium than a genre — people certainly do build clearly non-game narrative experiences in it, and they use it to build all sorts of proper, recognizable games, too. Something like Zork, for example, is undeniably a game — there are proper win and loss states, you make meaningful choices to finish the play experience, there are “stats” and “collectibles”, and it can be “beaten”. An IF title like [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aisle_(video_game)']Aisle[/URL], in contrast, is definitely not a video game at all, nor is it trying to be — it’s essentially just a table of contents that you navigate through by entering text. There’s no winning or losing, aside from either reading all the available text or not. For the record, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with either of these approaches, and I love both pieces of IF I mentioned. I simply don’t think it’s proper to make a statement blanket on all IF content either way, because so much of it is radically different from one another. It’s a medium, like books are. [/QUOTE]

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