“If this was a blog post I wouldn’t have read it; if this was a video I wouldn’t have watched the whole thing, but because this was a game I played it until the end.”
That’s one commenter’s response to dys4ia, an autobiographical Flash game about transitioning to a new gender by Anna Anthropy.
In an interview with SF Weekly, Anthropy discusses how games, just like literature, can use narrative to open empathic windows into the lives of others.