Serious Business

Rafael Fejardo~Crosser~

9/11 Survivor

Imagination is the only Escape

Luc Bernard

Imagination is the only Escape

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“Getting over that barrier (of being viewed as a children’s pastime) is the hardest part about being heard by people”

“The interactivity of a video game certainly has an effect on the message—perhaps even more so, it is a significant method of delivery for that message. To passively watch a film about school shootings, for example, allows the viewer a kind of calculated, voyeuristic distance from the acts of violence. To play a game about school shootings, however, thrusts the player into a posi-tion of moral accountability and authorial control. The effect is as different as watching a drag race from the sidewalk and drag racing.”

“This is really more a question of what gamers want from their gaming experiences. If gamers decide that they want more than escapist entertainment from their consoles, it is possible that the demand will increase; commercial games may someday of-

fer the equivalent of a Michael Moore documentary as well as the standard array of what amount to Mi-

chael Bay flicks.”

I have a hat now

The End

Still by Jacob Paris.