“You should immerse yourself in new, strange, and sometime dystopian worlds through playing video games such as:

 

Horizon Zero Dawn by Guerrilla Games

 

Any of the Fallout Series by Bethesda Game Studios

 

I recommend playing any of these recent action/role-playing games as a way to experience multiple types of creative output at the same time: graphics, design, narrative and character development, music, and movement. It is an awe-some and brain-tingling, anticipatory experience to tear the plastic wrap off a new game, pop it into my console, and awake in a new environment having to suss out what are the rules and boundaries that govern this particular world or universe. I have learned my ethical and moral compass is strong because I can’t play a bad guy and sleep well afterwards. I appreciate the truly visceral realness of the experience, so much so that my mind conjures up what it would smell like walking through this landscape or that. Many of the latest games are so beautiful that I like to take pictures of my cats as they walk in front of the monitor with the game world as their backdrop.”

http://thewitcher.com/en/witcher3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallout_(series)

 

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Anne Langley
Dean of the UConn Library

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