Homework #11

There are many purposes of why people play video games. Video games allow people to live in a virtual world, interact with other people, and create the person they want to be. Gamers play video games to escape from the real world, and transform into a character who makes them feel powerful. It allows gamers to have the freedom to explore a new world where they have not been before. The article describes how the video games are fiction, which means that they are not real. This allows the gamer to be able to feel like they are escaping from the real world. In this fake world, gamers can create fantasies of being their character. Another idea that the article discusses is how video games are a form of art. The producers of the video game show their art through the characters and the special effects of the game. They use certain graphics to make the game more appealing to the gamer. The characters are designed a certain way so that the gamer will want to choose that particular character. Through the fiction and art of the game, the gamers are able to be in a completely different world while playing these games. These special effects allow the gamer to escape and want to go into these virtual worlds.