Games tell stories best when they're elliptical and ambiguous and there's a sense of roaming and freedom.

All the stuff I love most in game storytelling is never the big-picture stuff; it's the stuff that feels like curlicues, stuff that's just there because it's a game and because you can do it.

All video games are games, obviously. They're designed. They're digital. They have rules; they give an audience some type of vicarious experience.

I'd been in Sacramento a day and already noticed the pervasiveness of its homeless problem. The city seemed like California without the masks or pretense: a place where dreams were occasionally made but mostly torn apart.