The Bizarre Nature of Playable Characters

Much like Pixar's Cars, the very concept of a playable character in a video game is incredibly weird and full of potential barely reached

Aspiring writers see “interactive” in front of the word “narrative”, and suddenly all they can see is the former: but narrative is still very much in play. The fact that we are being told a story isn't a limitation or a failure of the medium; it's an inherent aspect of interactive storytelling, because as much as our job is about crafting space for inte…