Is gaming REALLY A text?

[TheLefty]

I'm going to have a similar war with my teacher tomorrow...If movies are acceptable yes, if not no.

 

[Mechsoap]

firstly you say it was a novel made by the [insert developer name here] and it would be granded

 

[Daveman]

Ok, well that's just ignorance on your part.

And yes, of course plays are texts. Shakespeare and Wilde come to mind. You have to agree there? Seriously, just try and argue that Hamlet isn't a text.

I'd admit that the script is a text.

 

[ThrobbingEgo]

well so far in class we've gone over 'gothic elements' which are in all gothic texts and are:
subterranean space, decay, dwarfing of man, liminal space (blurring the lines between things such as light and dark, good and bad etc) Ambiguity, Social anxieties, Supernatural events, Suspenseful atmosphere, confronting, disturbing themes and being trapped or controlled.

I like to believe that Bioshock has all of that.

If you can explain how Bioshock has all these elements, how could it not be a text?

If it wasn't a text, then it shouldn't be fit for analysis. If you can do the analysis, then it's a text.

Ok, well that's just ignorance on your part.

And yes, of course plays are texts. Shakespeare and Wilde come to mind. You have to agree there? Seriously, just try and argue that Hamlet isn't a text.

I'd admit that the script is a text.

Edit: I'd like to point out that there's a difference between something being literally text, and being a text. One is words on the page. Another is a cultural work to be studied. This is an academic class, and film is allowed to be used as a text, so clearly the teacher is using the second meaning.