Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 05/10/2026in the world you create, your player develops an identity and a set of desires; we should anticipate, reply to and complicate those desires, rather than Telling Them A Story to walk thru 1641
Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I quit so many contemporary story games because the system doesn’t acknowledge me, and it just wants me to walk to the next objective, there to be told the next objective and so on. “agency” means more than “it’s interactive!” ofc I am jaded and old now so whatever 1823
Terry Torres @terrytorres.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Damned if this doesn’t explain why I quit several games this year. Like playing with a DM obsessed with their own world and including me in the story is the last thing they want to do. 060
