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I think the articles is missing out by not mentioning Visual Novel, which I think will most likely be the first of such case. The genre is very close to traditional novels.

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And RPGs, which have probably gifted some of the best written games ever (Planescape Torment, Fallout 1-2, Disco Elysium).

Agree wholeheartedly. I still have a big box shrink wrapped copy of Planescape: Torment on my bookcase. I'd add Arcanum to that list as well.

Those games are the reason I just finished a PhD focused on NLP. I've long been interested in giving players even more freedom to roleplay within the confines of narrative driven games.

The research platform I created based on Disco Elysium [1] has enabled some cool new research I just finished up for my dissertation that I hope to publish soon.

[1]: https://pl.aiwright.dev

I personally hate visual novels. They are usually a very clumsy mix between the interactivity of a game and the lengthy writing of a novel. Never have I felt like a visual novel was succeeding in either aspect.

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