links for 2010-11-07

“It’s a tool to help you do some­thing. That notion led to the thought that mechan­i­cal­ly-realised sto­ries – the kind that movies can’t real­ly ever tell, and the kind that games are invari­ably best at – are a kind of nar­ra­tive exoskele­ton.” Games as tools instead of media, that’s what it’s all about.