Video Summary

Nicole Bartolo

Composition 102

Instructor: Dawn DiPrince

27 January 2012

Video Summary

            In the beginning of the video the speaker begins by stating that people spend over three billion hours playing video games each year. She stated that she wished to increase that number to twenty one billion hours. As the video continues, a picture of a person with a highly expressive face appears. This is described as the face of a person who is on the verge of an epic win. It is a mixture of intense concentration, optimism, and hope. People who may feel that they are not good at achieving real life goals are able to accomplish great and noble feats on video games. By playing video games an individual learns to cooperate with others who share a common purpose. The gamers all work together for the common good. Four characteristics the gamers all have are urgent optimism, social relationships, blissful productivity, and epic meaning. The skills that are crucial to solving real world problems are already applied in virtual reality. The speaker explains that games were possibly invented to keep people from starving to death. The leader of this ancient nation ordered the citizens to eat on one day and play games on the other, and on game days their minds were taken off their hunger. The civilization played many dice games and so survived a 20 year famine this way. In one of the speakers games she sits up an oil crisis and the adventure is to live life without oil. She reported that many who played this game continued to live their lives this way. So the speaker purposes turning real life crises, like the oil shortage, into an epic adventure that will allow the gamers to solve the world issues using the skills they acquire playing video games.