Video Games as Literature

Quinn Norton asks the question, what is literature and where mediums like comics and games sit with this. Quinn explains that mechanics matter in there ability to change things.

She gives the example of Portal 2. Its medium is essential to what it is. A part of this is the very nature of the author.

The ability to bring change comes through the interaction involved in reading and responding.

It is interesting to consider this alongside Doug Belshaw’s work in regards to digital literacies and the importance of process. I am also left wondering about J. Hillis Miller’s ‘obligation to write’:

Maybe when we play we compose?