But games are ever-changing, culturally-shaped practices that have more in common with square dancing and […] butterfly collecting than they do with passively consumed entertainment products. And so the more we try to treat games like media, the less game-like they are.
Quotes about games
The fact that playing games—good ones, anyway—is fundamentally a creative act is something that speaks very well for the medium.
Play. Games. Narrative. Interactivity. What a motley bunch. Honestly, have you ever seen such a suspicious set of slippery and ambiguous, overused, and ill-defined terms?
This is what games are for. They teach us things so that we can minimize risk and know what choices to make.