We need your stories for the show
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 8:43 pm
On a future episode of the show, I'd like to discuss the overlap between video games and real life. I have some stories about this, but I'd also like to incorporate stories from our listeners. If you have some, please submit them here. We will give you credit if we use your story on the show.
Here are some ideas that you might like to respond to:
Have you ever had an experience in real life and then thought, "wow, that was just like a video game I've played"? What was it?
Have you ever learned something -- a skill, a piece of information, a way of looking at things, etc. -- from a game and then later found that useful in real life? For example, have driving games made you any better at driving? Our younger listeners may have played a pretty realistic driving game before ever driving in real life. What did you think about that after you drove a real car for the first time?
On the other hand, is there anything you "learned" from a video game that turned out to be completely wrong when you tried to apply it in real life? I'm not talking about something like trying to find power-ups inside crates in real life, I mean something you really believed from a game that turned out to be wrong.
Have you ever used video games for a specific real-life purpose? (To relieve stress, to prepare yourself for something, etc.)
If you play a sport, have you ever used a sports video game to improve your understanding of the sport? How did that work out?
If you have done something both in a game and in real life, how has one made you think differently about the other? I'm not looking for responses like "game X isn't realistic" here, I'm interested in how a game has changed your thinking about the real thing, or the other way around.
If you can think of some other story related to this topic, go ahead and submit it, it doesn't have to be a response to one of the questions above.
Thanks in advance for your participation,
Tom
Here are some ideas that you might like to respond to:
Have you ever had an experience in real life and then thought, "wow, that was just like a video game I've played"? What was it?
Have you ever learned something -- a skill, a piece of information, a way of looking at things, etc. -- from a game and then later found that useful in real life? For example, have driving games made you any better at driving? Our younger listeners may have played a pretty realistic driving game before ever driving in real life. What did you think about that after you drove a real car for the first time?
On the other hand, is there anything you "learned" from a video game that turned out to be completely wrong when you tried to apply it in real life? I'm not talking about something like trying to find power-ups inside crates in real life, I mean something you really believed from a game that turned out to be wrong.
Have you ever used video games for a specific real-life purpose? (To relieve stress, to prepare yourself for something, etc.)
If you play a sport, have you ever used a sports video game to improve your understanding of the sport? How did that work out?
If you have done something both in a game and in real life, how has one made you think differently about the other? I'm not looking for responses like "game X isn't realistic" here, I'm interested in how a game has changed your thinking about the real thing, or the other way around.
If you can think of some other story related to this topic, go ahead and submit it, it doesn't have to be a response to one of the questions above.
Thanks in advance for your participation,
Tom