Gaming before we could walk!

“Like making music, telling stories, and creating images, playing games is part of what it means to be human. Games are perhaps the first designed interactive systems our species invented.” (Zimmerman 2013) 

Games are more than just a hobbie but that they are a way of life. We have been playing games since before we could even walk even as babes we are learning  the rules of play and what it means to be a participant in a game. 

Games are what make slide fun, what makes life normal and really what makes life worth while. Their is some many different form of game stat we may be playing a game and not even know but the thing is this isn't in the shape of an alternate reality game. The fact is that some games that we play are just a day to day life for us now. For example you may be walking down the street and missing cracks in the road, little things that have a goal and a win stake. 

The thing that I now have to think about with our game is that we have a good win stake and a good goal. Also what we need to make sure is that were have got rules, rules are what makes games work, yes games are made to be broken but at least it gives you a basis for a game.

Another side note that we could take from this thinking is that games and stories have a lot in common so we need to make sure that we lead the user through our game like you do a story so that the narrative follows smoothly and we don't loose the user throughout the way.

<http://ericzimmerman.com/files/texts/Manifesto_for_a_Ludic_Century.pdf> Date Accessed: 18/02/2014

Jonathan Cooper K1 K2