A game is a kind of abstract storytelling that resembles the world of common experience but compresses it in order to heighten interest.
I feel like this is what we were trying to say in our first class when we were comparing digital stories and games. The use of abstract is a really good way to describe it and I definitely agree that a game is more interesting than a story.
The postmodern hypertext tradition celebrates the indeterminate text as a liberation from the tyranny of the author and an affirmation of the reader’s freedom of interpretation.
People are always looking for freedom and independence. The rapture of the rhizome labyrinth is appealing to people because there is freedom from the author and there is plenty of room for your own interpretation and decisions.