Matt Thorne
State of Play
In Trigger Happy: The Inner Life of Videogames (2001), the technology and literary critic Steven Poole wrote about his disappointment that no one, as yet, has attempted to make a computer game out of Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire. Initially this seems an absurd notion, but if computer game designers are to draw on fiction for inspiration then maybe Nabokov isn’t such a bad place to start. He was, after all, an author who used games for plotting purposes, whether cards (King, Queen, Knave), chess (The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, among many others) or literary (Ada).
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