Still Self-Involved: A Reply to Patridge

In an earlier article we (Robson and Meskin 2016) argued that video-game fictions were what we termed “self-involving interactive fictions” (hereafter “SIIFs”), that is, that they are fictions which are, in virtue of their interactive nature, about those who consume them. Stephanie Patridge criticizes our arguments for the claim that video games are SIIFs. In this article we argue that, while many of Patridge's claims concerning video games and our interactions with them are correct, the considerations she highlights are not in tension with the positions we argued for in our earlier article.