Sunday, August 1, 2010

Create your own fantasy world...

Mr. Uncle once commented "What's so nice or enjoyable about playing (computer) games? Will you get anything from moving around that piece of furniture in the virtual game?"

He finds it hard to believe why his girlfriend is spending some much of her time trying to decorate her virtual restaurant in the online game - Restaurant City, as the time could be spent on doing something more meaningful. Well, somehow, Mr. Robotic agrees with Mr. Uncle on the point that gaming is indeed a time exhaustive activity. Mr. Robotic remembered his vacation days where instead of getting a vacation job, he dwindled his days playing online games. If he had been wiser to choose the earlier, he would have gotten his first pot of gold (figure of speech, not referring to virtual gold) by now.

Of course, the worst form of being too engrossed into the virtual reality world is when it starts to ruin your actual life. The news about the Korean youth who killed his mother because she tried to disrupt him from his gaming is disheartening. After watching the movie Inception, one can't help but to ponder if the critics of violent game graphics are actually correct that subconsciously, one might be implanted with the violence notion even though one logically deduce that they are able to differentiate reality from virtual reality. Hmm...

To be fair, gaming does offer its own fantasy world that is very alluring. "Escapism" perhaps for most? How else would one be able to experience running a restaurant, a hotel, a farm, an empire and a pirate ship (these happens to be the Facebook games) in one's lifetime? Even if one can afford to have a real restaurant, it would be crazy to tear down the decorations and replace them with a 80s vibe, a contemporary chic etc. In the virtual world, one can be adventurous and creative without the baggage of reality. What's the worst that can happen? Restart or stop playing? In real life, most sadly can't afford that luxury...

Mr. Annoying Orange whom likes to model himself after the annoying laughter and lines of the YouTube videos - Annoying Orange, is an avid gamer himself. A few of the games which Mr. Robotic was addicted to was due to his introduction. Interestingly, Mr. Annoying Orange has a new hobby lately which is to create his own role-playing games better known as RPG. This involves creating his own maps, story lines, characters. Mr. Robotic also tried out parts of it. It is seriously tedious work even though the graphics are basic and ancient. After a few hours, Mr. Robotic only managed to come up with a map and two characters. It is worth it though when Mr. Annoying Orange programmed it to work and Mr. Robotic sees the characters moving around in his map. Kudos to all game designers for all their hard work!

Mr. Annoying Orange seems very focused on this project. Hopefully it would all materialise in due time so that Mr. Robotic can let his readers play it for free... haha...

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