Why this topic particularly interests me?

I discover that some of the digital games are highly interactive, and even attempt to give players a sense of being in a virtual reality.

First, most of the games have narrative story structure, for example, one of the game named “Bioshock”, once you start to open the game, it started a Computer Graphics trailer (CG) to tell game’s story, in 80’s, main character fall into the undersea city that most citizens have become monsters. After the trailer, player have got the basic concepts of “the world”, than, the game started to allow players taking control the character movement through the buttons.

Indeed, I found interacting that this kind of Computer Graphics fragment (CG) not only appear in the beginning and ending, but throughout the whole game while players arrived to certain place or under certain condition; sometimes the decision making of player would lead to an alterative plot or ending. For example, under certain condition, player will meet “little sister”, the game will ask a question about kill her of not which actually is a key condition to alter the ending.

In this case, players are not only empower to control the persona action, but, in certain extended, game allows player make decision to alter the story, like reality.

On the other hands, bioshock is a first-person shooter video game which we don’t see the main character but only his hands (and players can change the tools by buttons), it invites players engage to the game world. Indeed, very shoots, attack action are similar as act as reality; and this kind of characteristics are highly substitution with player.

Or, some of the games like “Mosterhunter”, player can choose the appearance of the persona, sexes, race, hair style, etc. Indeed, I think it helps players to create virtual identity, which help player to substitute in the game world.

Therefore, in certain extends, those digital games make player highly substitution in the game identity, which in a higher degree than film and book, because player can choose, can control and interact with the narrative. This is a totally different experience to read a story.

So, I wanted to explore more about through this blog.