The push for Twine does come from a specific group of academics who wrote papers about it as a tool for pushing their agenda into gaming. This is documented.
But what's really hilarious is that you will not find a single actual review of Depression Quest on the same sites that gave the product and its creator so much press. For one very simple reason. The 'game' is utter crap. The writing is cringeworthy. Everyone knows the reason it got so much coverage was because of connections, self-inflicted scandal and political ideology. Now they're stuck with having pretended that wasn't the case, so they keep running around in circles about it.
But what's really hilarious is that you will not find a single actual review of Depression Quest on the same sites that gave the product and its creator so much press. For one very simple reason. The 'game' is utter crap. The writing is cringeworthy. Everyone knows the reason it got so much coverage was because of connections, self-inflicted scandal and political ideology. Now they're stuck with having pretended that wasn't the case, so they keep running around in circles about it.