Fifth Blog Post: Group Response to Games

Fifth Blog Post: Do games count?

Games are an overlooked piece of interactive literature (or film or art,etc) that can be very useful to interpret or understand an authors message.  Often viewed as entertainment or a leisurely activity, games can actually also be very informative and stimulating to your brain.  The game Ingress, allowed us to interact with the physical world and a virtual world simultaneously.  We believe that games can count as a digital humanity due to the interactive experience that you get from playing a game.  Essentially, you get better at life from experience or training for whatever it is you want to achieve.  That theory coincides with the gaming world in a sense that you are faced with a task and you must do whatever you know or are taught to do to complete that task.  More than likely people go through a game and lose a level once or twice and are forced to restart it, however they already have knowledge of that level (or whatever the game may provide) because they have already experienced it. In life you may fail once or twice but you have already lived through that failure and have the opportunity to better your decision based on your previous experience. To sum up this post, games can potentially teach people life lessons or be the experience for a real life scenario that can help one achieve a goal or whatever they`re seeking.

By: Connor, Robbie, Mary-Lynn