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David Brain <news@davidbrain.co.uk> wrote:
>I particularly liked the quote from John Carmack:
>"The better the story you tell, the worse the game becomes"
>which seems to belong at the heart of the recent threads we've been having
>about what IF is.

It sort of begs the question.

He's also not somebody I'd want to champion my cause around here;
there's this quote from him in the Red Herring some time ago:

     ...he cautions against classifying games as an art form.
     "That's not what we're doing," Mr. Carmack says. "We're
     doing entertainment. Saying it's art is a kind of sophistry
     from people who want to aggrandize our industry."

I'd go with something more like "the more interactive the work,
the more individualized the story any one player experiences,
and the more personal the experience" but that involves a rather
arguable use of the word "story".

SeanB
