So you're talking about how, you know, what kind of the similarities between

adventure games and novels in in this I recently took this class as role-playing

games as literature class,

and what you can hear me talk about on,

I'm a dead idea of a hala.

Because I'm mostly frustrated with the terrible people

who are in my class.

But there are a lot of interesting ideas and there's this whole indie tabletop role-playing game kind of

Culture called the Forge. It's a website in a forum and they talk about how there's different approaches to games and they break

them down into Narrativist, which are people who want like a good story, a gameist, you know,

who people who want like a good game and good mechanics, and then simulationist who want to see like what will happen if certain things, you know, if you do certain things.

And I think that, you know, it's meant for table dot games or it really does apply to to video games as well.

And when you take something like an adventure game, it's so far down that slider towards Narrativist that it's practically a novel you know when you there's not very much

game to an adventure game you don't have very much choice things you know come

you know unfold the same way every time practically you know it's almost

more like just one big puzzle where you just have to find the order to put in the

pieces as opposed to something like you know with a game where you have even in

Mario you know you have the choice to like jump and

go over the goombre jump on the goomba whereas like adventure games they reduce that so much and

that's why I think it's so like novelistic.

It's a linear progression of gates that stop you, that stop your progress unless you, unless you do it exactly the way that they want you to. Right, right. And because it's, I mean, it's so little of a game, like it's so narrative, like I feel like, you know, there's some, that kind of

of self-reflection can be valuable in video games too, like figuring out what you want out of a game.

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