What are characters? What is the point of telling a story? These questions are timely indictments of the struggle many videogames have had reconciling storytelling with interactive mechanism. Yet, these struggles are not new nor are they unique to videogames. What is the worth of a character in an exploded anti-narrative like Ulysses or Gravity’s Rainbow? Can a story work without logic and linearity? Novelist and videogame fan Dennis Cooper is a master of exploiting the intrinsic human need to see linear, connected stories where, in reality, there isn’t one. His novels are kaleidoscopic nothing spaces, where storytelling is only…