Often the art in a video game is like glorified Thomas Kinkade, but some of it is genuinely enchanting and compelling.

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• Tom Bissell:

  The way games are designed is you create a story, and then you create an obstacle course inside tha

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  Only in about 2007 or so did it become clear to me that games could stand proudly beside other stor

• Tom Bissell:

  The kinds of games I'm most interested in are narrative games.

• Tom Bissell:

  Sport-based video games occupy an odd space within the sphere of modern home entertainment. Reliabl

• Tom Bissell:

  All video games are games, obviously. They're designed. They're digital. They have rules; they give

• Tom Bissell:

  Here's what I just realized: A world in which sport at its best is not seen as some kind of art is

• Tom Bissell:

  There's a sense of fiction in every video game. It creates a world for itself that you want to obey

• Tom Bissell:

  Games tell stories best when they're elliptical and ambiguous and there's a sense of roaming and fr

• Tom Bissell:

  I don't know how video game narrative works.

• Tom Bissell:

  I'm an Old Media guy. I don't have a website; I don't Twitter. I love magazines, yet I love video g