7. Passive vs. Active Audiences
Now into one of the many things that separates gaming as a medium from that of films or books; the active participation of an audience to unlock the rest of the game by way of playing through it. Comedian Dara OBriain once remarked that gaming is the only medium that will restrict content to those that dont possess the adequate skills to view it. With a passive medium such as film or the written word, the content is fully formed and will unfold in front of you should you pay attention, requiring no input to facilitate a full experience. This is something that feeds into the authorship debate around gaming, being that many ask how a piece of content that requires user input to take it, can be classified as art.