Games are helping us ask critical questions about our growing ability to construct reality

Game Theory by Matt S.

Note: To be upfront and fair, there are major spoilers for Death Come True and The Caligula Effect ahead. Don't read on unless you're comfortable reading discussion about the endings of these two games.

Four years ago, an artist named Matsuda Keiichi produced a wonderful little video that acts as a broad criticism of our increasingly digitally augmented world. That video, called Hyper-Reality, has been seen over two million times on YouTube since release, and it does highlight a growing tension between our ability to "create" our own reality by using digital technologies to enhance everything in our lives from our productivity to our aesthetics, and the negative impacts that's having on us, from an overload of distracting information, to a distancing that we're starting to feel from a tangible sense of reality.

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