ABSTRACT
186 In game scholarship, it’s taken as a given that interactivity is an essential element of play. Interactivity is used to distinguish games from traditional passive art forms such as painting, literature, or film. When we play a game, there is a give-and-take that doesn’t exist in other mediums, and this give-and-take is often presented as the primary thing that separates games from these other sorts of aesthetic experiences.
