Like many people I enjoy games.
Not just video games, nor restricted to board games, games in general.
It's not that hard to see why, a well made game poses a challenge, an activity to engage in and become caught up in and to exercise our minds against.
But at the same time they provide a simulacrum of an unobtainable experience.
Lets start with a classic, Monopoly.
Monopoly allows a group of friends to experience a representation of owning and controlling the property market, it lets them get locked in jail, earn millions of pounds and compete against other successful property dealers.
How many people can claim that experience?
With the migration of games to electronic media people can now engage in more fanciful experiences.
Now a player can experience a simulacrum of fighting in a famous battle, fly a dragon over a fairy tail castle or simply experience an every day life.
So is it that hard to see why games are so popular?
During this blog, there may be occasional interludes from my own experiences in games.
What I play
In terms of video games, my experience grows and dips in relation to the time available to me.
Video games are heavily time consuming, as they are designed with a hook. The withholding of a saving point, or the placement of a long puzzle, video games are captivating because they bate their audience into continuing.
As such talks on video games will be rare to say the least, as someone searching for a placement can ill afford to loose 4 hours of their time.
No, what you will more often find on here are moments of my time in roleplay games.
Specifically, games played over long distance on Skype.
I run and play story based games with people of all nationalities and age groups, all brought together to try and create a fantastic story adventure.
In these moments, I will share moments of challenge and narrative and examine what the experience gained truly is.
Creative design, Philosophical debate, Game exploration
