November 27, 2024: Games As Art And Literature

[johndallman]

Originally Posted by kkc

There is such a thing as interactive theatre, where people come into a performance space knowing that they'll be asked to answer a nun's questions or guess who committed a crime at the end. Can we set the same kind of interactive expectation for an art exhibition, where everybody who comes in can expect to have to roll dice and imagine a role to play?

Even if you can do that, it doesn't capture the experience of a long campaign where the characters change the world and are changed by their experiences.