This is a short article I wrote 3 years ago for the first version of this site. Reading it from this time distance, I thought it still had some valid points and good ideas, so I decided to include it in the new version of the site as well. This sentence, taken from the article, rings very true and can be used to quickly evaluate a game's linearity: "I rate linearity in games by the number of independent choices a player has at a particular game junction".
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