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as a meta‐genre especially interesting in this respect, since they seem toillustratereallyquitewellhowtheergodiccharacteroftheparticular‘handson’enactive experience offered by such games, engages players right from thebeginning in actually doing something practical and constructive in a digitalenvironment that may also at the same time be potentially innovative, eitheraloneorincooperationwithothers.So,viewedfromwithinanenactiveexperiential‐relationalparadigm,gamesnotonlychallengeandtrainplayerstoengageinquitedifferentformsofembodiedergodic action in relation to play objects than are required of readers orcinephiles,theymayalsoopenupforamyriadofotheractionpossibilitiessuchasbecomingagame(re‐)writer,designer,producerorresearcherasImentionedbefore…This view of player interactions with game possible worlds as forms ofpotentiallycreativeintentionalactionhasquitealotincommonwithUmbertoEco’sdescriptionsoftheinterplaybetweenintentioauctorisandintentiolectorisin open aesthetic texts, and his model writer and model reader dichotomy, buthere there is an added corporeal dimension, including possible forms of socialandculturalmobilityandtransmedia,transworldcareerdevelopment.However,aswecansee,sofarnoobviousanswertomyinitialquestionaboutwhether or not FPS games might constitute something like a literary orcinematographicgenrehasemerged.Thisisnotparticularlystrange,sincetherewill clearly be many different ways of understanding the notion ‘literary’,‘cinematographic’and‘genre’,nowandinthefuture.Butwecancertainlyclaimthat FPS games are a kind of aesthetic interactive art form that offers playerscertain kinds of enactive experiences of fictional possible worlds. Indeed, thissortofgeneraldescriptionmaywellbetheonethatbestofalllinksgamesperséto more traditional genres of literature and cinema. But there is also anotherissueatplayherethathascausedquitealotoflivelydiscussioningamestudiesand game philosophy circles over the years, and this has to do with whethercomputer games are most profitably conceived of as primarily narrative orprimarilyludicincharacter.