Bouchardon-12Labors

Gamelike?
 * Characteristics of game: rule structure, interactive
 * have to go to external links to solve a puzzle, have to leave the game to play the game, field of play is entire Internet, not just the 12 labors
 * most of the levels are anticlimactic
 * more puzzle-like than a quest, tests logic

Oral literacy
 * performing it helps you remember it
 * Connects with oral literacy-assume audience knows the tale, don’t need to tell all the parts, communal memory
 * John Miles Foley (sp.?): connections between digital culture and oral culture

Digital literacy
 * tests your Internet literacy when you have to go to Amazon, MySpace
 * tests if you have ability to use a webcam—you have to own a webcam to play the game

Traditional literacy
 * Familiarity with Greek epic—need to know something about Hercules stories for it to resonate, for you to get complete narrative experience

How do we categorize this genre?
 * Hybrid game-story?
 * Is this a video game?

Does this qualify as literary?
 * When we stop thinking only about the information it delivers and start thinking about the way it delivers that info, then we start thinking that it belongs in the art/literary field.
 * Degree and centrality of the language makes us see it more as literature than visual art
 * Makes us reflect, become self-conscious about reading experience