Why and How Gone Home is Certainly a Game [SPOILERS]

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Why and How Gone Home is Certainly a Game [SPOILERS]

Added: 03.12.2013 13:17 | 9 views | 0 comments

Analog Addiction writes: "Gone Home (2013) by The Fullbright Company is a videogame. There are some who disagree on that point, saying that its focus on story with limited gameplay makes it more like a virtual museum than a game. While I can understand why some people would think that, I have to say that they are objectively wrong. Gone Home is indeed a game, and not because Im using the broadest definition of a game, but because there is one central mechanic that it uses to give players choice, a natural progression through its story, and all that jazzy ludonarrative harmony that all the kids are smoking these days. That one game mechanic is paranoia."