Game Player Identities

Game Player Identities

There are many different experiences with video games which offers a way to explore the nature of a persons identity. It’s not just the playing of the game that determines your identity, but the way you use it. Sure there is a storyline within a game that keeps you playing, and you sometimes get choices to pick between good and evil, right and wrong, however not everything within the game is about the storyline or choices. Within a game, is a world, a world full of amazing scenes which can be explored, and give you a sense of beauty. Though not all games have beautiful scenes or settings which enable you to roam around, I can say that, to me, they are all immersive and you can get lost within them. They then essentially, become an escape from reality, and help us to find our true inner selves, the part of us which is lost in this fantasy realm running around like headless chickens, not knowing what may come down the line, in the next five minutes,   whether it’s climbing another world famous Italian, renaissance period, building, or throwing a dagger into a zombies head to get out of your Hotel room, Without games like these I wouldn’t be able to invent and create my own little escapes from the real world or even know what I would like to do in my future, which is help children and adults alike explore their inner child and escape from reality.