Games, Games, Games . . .

Games and video games have always been very popular ways to pass time, learn, socialize, and even to just take a nice little break from reality. Today in America and around the world, there are huge subcultures revolving around video games with immense numbers of participants usually participating in playing together via the internet.

I have been brainstorming ideas for a semester long blog series on a certain aspect of games, board games, video games, and/or an aspect of the underlying industry. I have yet to decide on a thesis for this research and composition, but I do have several ideas I am currently taking into consideration.

My initial idea would be to research and examine the use of games in a business setting in which they are used as a tool to essentially train and inform an employee of the expectations and responsibilities of their position. I feel as though it may not be a juicy enough aspect of games to keep a fresh and entertaining blog series with such a narrow scope of such a large an interesting industry. The second idea that came to mind is to examine the use of games in order to teach real-time strategy in a way that could apply to real world scenarios, such as the use of video game training for the military and/or law enforcement. I believe this could be much more interesting, and my Uncle actually works at a private firm that works with the government on various homeland security and military strategies and scenarios. I feel he could be an excellent resource in informing me first hand as to just how useful games can be as a way of gaining a basis of background experience to possible upcoming real world experiences.

As of the time of writing this blog, I am leaning toward my second idea for this blog series, however, I will continue brainstorming in an effort to potentially find a more enticing topic.