Would AAMFP be better if it would NOT be considered a game, like Dear Esther?

[Diango12]

Sorry for being a bit off-topic, but this has to be written:

Spoiler below!

Video Game (noun):
1. Any of various games played using a microcomputer with a keyboard and often joysticks to manipulate changes or respond to the action or questions on the screen. (www.dictionary.com)
2. A video game is an electronic game that involves human interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device. (www.wikipedia.org )
3. A game in which you press buttons to control and move images on a screen (Oxford online dictionary)
4. An electronic game in which players control images on a television or computer screen (Merriam-Webster )
5. A game in which the player controls moving pictures on a television screen by pressing buttons or moving a short handle Cambridge Online Dictionary

Let's use that for Microsoft Windows:

1) Yes, we use a keyboard to manipulate changes or respond to the action or questions on the screen.
2) Yes, we generate visual feedback with a user interface.
3) Yes, we press buttons to control and move images on a screen.
4) and 5) yes, we control images on a television or computer screen.

So Windows is a game, too!

Read those definitions again... see how they all start with the word "game?" Kinda important.

Game: an amusement or pastime; structured playing, usually undertaken for enjoyment.

You'd be hard pressed to define an operating system as an enjoying activity or amusement, without some conceited metaphor.

Nice try.

In that case Ebooks in PDF format are games too. I use input devises to move images and I use special triggers to jump sections and even open pictorial content on some of them. I really enjoy Dune a lot, and seeing as I have the whole collection as pdf I guess I'm playing the series as a game!

The point is you are over simplifying the definition of a form of media that has gained a lot of popularity and therefor has standards established through the precedent of 42 years of gaming history. A:amfp gets to be defined as a game, but I feel just barely so. Dark, interactive visual and audio book is more appropriate.