The game will sit there patiently until the time comes again for it to live. After all, memories can fade but it will always be there. The memories that you have made will be there and most of the time you will look back on them fondly.īut then there is something that will live on long after your memories. The game may be over but it will stay with you. As the screen finally fades to black you remember the time you spent traversing the land, battling evil and living your dream. The world would not have been saved were it not for you. Without you, none of this could have happened. You defeat that final boss and you sit back and watch as the ending plays and the credits roll. You return and you learn from your mistakes. As the clock counts down, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, you press a button to “Continue”. It’s a heart-wrenching feeling as the screen tells you one way or the other that, ‘You are dead!’ Maybe it mocks you with ‘Love is Over!’ But that just instils more fight in you. The life of your character has ended but you still live on. In those few hours the creativity of anything from a few to thousands of people combines to create an unforgettable experience.Īnd then, you die. This world that someone else has created is yours. It doesn’t matter whether you’re rolling around at the speed of sound, punching the Creator so hard that its soul flies into the Sun, trying to solve the puzzle of an ancient civilisation or simply collecting items, you are both in this together.
You fight together, you solve puzzles together and you witness the most amazing things together. For the period that you are playing you are one. Even if the character is not you, you are still them. You make them fight but they give you the reason to do so. You control them but they exist in their world. You will earn the glory and you will save the day.
Next, follow the steps to try to get things working again. Have you ever looked at a film and thought: ‘It’d be so awesome if I could be the hero, slaying the dragon, rescuing the princess, earning glory and saving the day’? Well, the game lets you do that. Fix problems with the Start menu To troubleshoot the following problems, select any heading to see more info. You start the game and then you are in, right inside a world beyond your imagination. It wants to live and you are its reason for living. It will just be you and the game that so desperately wants you to play it. As soon as you press that button your world is going to change. And the words that say “Press Start” just keep flashing at you. It begins that very moment you press start. I hope you enjoy it! The Poem: Press Start → I wanted to try and capture some of that love and excitement in a short piece of writing. I love my video games, and it all begins with that moment you press start. But, still, I was proud of it, and as I sat down to figure out a blog post for this month, I remembered it and decided to write a short poem based on the same theme. The piece didn’t get in unfortunately, and looking back, that was probably the right decision as they undoubtedly received many far superior pieces.
Back when I was at university, I submitted a piece of prose to a student anthology where the theme was something around interactivity.
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