As for the upcoming examples, let me begin with a broad frame. My hope is that the concepts and approach in this book are useful for talking about a wide range of digital media. If I’m right, the same book could have been written by someone who focused on examples drawn, say, from computer music. And if the book convinces people, hopefully there will be quite a few writings that build on its approach, analyzing a wide body of examples. I imagine I’ll produce some of those.

But this book is really structured around the argument, taking examples in the order the argument determines, looking at a relatively small number of projects in relatively large detail. So lots of things it would have been interesting to discuss are left out. And there’s almost nothing about things like installation art. The whole book is pretty much like the third chapter — there are lots of games that are interesting in terms of fiction, but I only needed PoP:SoT and KotOR to make the points for my argument, so I didn’t do more than mention any others.

Someday I’d like to organize a group of people to do a sort of Whole Earth Catalog of digital media, or perhaps digital fictions more specifically. We don’t really have a massive, broad sourcebook of projects and ideas. The closest might be something like Information Arts — but that doesn’t have quite the “browsable catalog” feel I’d like.

I recall from section 1.6 the topics the book will be covering overall. I’m wondering, will you also have a chance somewhere in the book to touch upon additional creative/artistic forms of expressive processing, such as interactive visual art, interactive installation, and the like? It would be great if interactive artmaking practices could be analyzed / critiqued in the same way you are for games / stories / characters. Though, perhaps that’d make the book too fat and long to write; maybe that will be saved for a future book. :-)