The Machine a Game Narrative and Its Originary Relationship With User Action

The game constitutes a text that is read by the user so you playing the game right. You make choices based on your understanding of the game and then the game itself responds to the choices that you've made uh so which in turn reads the user by making artificially intelligent responses to the user's actions. The text in question combines the program code and the story in an originary relationship with each other. If the technical execution was all that mattered then doom three would have been considered a great game no one would have given a damn that the story was bad, he says. "Doom three was discussed as like a technical achievement that is undercut by a lack of narrative originality or imagination"