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In case you haven't noticed, something is happening in the world of video games, something that is changing the way we think about how they're made, how they're played, and what they mean. The authors of this book are part of a new generation of game creators for whom video games interface fully with all the complex machinery of contemporary culture. For Anna and Naomi, video games are not merely sleek consumer appliances dispensing entertaining power fantasies, they are fragments of shattered machines out of which new identities can be constructed; sites where disorderly crowds can assemble for subversive purposes; platforms from which to examine the status quo; windows into the turbulent flow of power and progress; unruly machines that call into question their own means of production; smart machines that allow us to say new things; and, when correctly operated, beautiful machines that kill fascists. We are used to other kinds of culture interfacing with all of these dimensions—music, film, literature; these things have long been understood as a domain of identity construction and political struggle. But it's still something of a novelty to understand video games the same way, to pay close attention to not just their form and content, but to their context, to think about the personal voices of the individual creators, the communities that gather around them, and the deeper currents they illuminate.
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Though the way in which we tell stories and the role these stories have played have changed throughout the times, what hasn't changed is the need for and the art of storytelling itself. Human beings are storytelling creatures by nature. In fact, storytelling is one of the many things that define us. Everyday we create stories of our own, from daydreaming to actual dreams at night. It's our way to put things into context, to process what we've experienced and learnt and to test that which we've not yet come across, or which we may fear. Just like the books dad would read to us took us to new places in our imagination, the stories we create consciously and subconsciously in our minds take us on journeys too. They create emotional responses in our minds and bodies by making us see and feel things, not just then and there but for hours to come afterwards. Many of us have once had a romantic dream about someone, whether during our teenage years or slightly later, where we wake up in the morning and feel like we walk on cloud number nine. It's like the dream has left you with a small crush and a secret - what happened in the dream - that makes you feel closer to that person you dreamt about, be it a classmate, colleague, or George Clooney as it was for me back in the good old days when ER was shown on TV. Then of course there are the dreams where we find ourselves naked in not-suitable-to-be-naked situations. Or, when we the night before a big presentation dream that we've forgotten everything. Those dreams can leave us with a sense of unease that we struggle to shake for hours to come.
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There are two terms with which you should be familiar. Personas are fake characters who embody key characteristics of the people who will be using the software you're designing. Lots of ink has been spilled during the course of the past two decades explaining and arguing about personas. Scenarios are descriptions of how a persona uses the product or service you are designing to accomplish their goals. They keep teams focused on the big picture of why a user would be engaged with the product and the constraints implied by the context in which they use it. To facilitate easy and inexpensive iteration, scenarios often start as text and only become more refined with pictures across iterations of the design.
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