Reconfiguring narrative

Well that was a surprise... We were discussing Landow's Hypertext 3.0 in class last Wednesday. We actually read the introduction couple of weeks ago, but our assignment was Reconfiguring Narrative chapter. As I explained to them the wildly popular debate between narratologists and ludologists and asked them whether they thought narrative existed in videogames, everyone said yes and looked at me as if I just came from the moon. I would have expected more of a reaction, or even resistence. So many gamers have refused it stubbornly. My class actually made some insightful comments on the topic. Who knew??? Either as a culture we are moving beyond certain dichotomies or our class was an anamoly. Either way, I didn't even feel the necessity to convince them. They were there (before I was).