Certainly most game stories have a long way to go when it comes to craftsmanship, but Aristotelian conventions and Campbell's Hero's Journey are by no means underrepresented in games. As video game designer and theorist Ernest Adams has noted, "Campbell's work is descriptive and not prescriptive." While writers like Sutherland have the right idea for a certain kind of storytelling, I don't believe it is the only one of which games are capable of portraying, nor should it be.

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