"Get down," Lucy said in her headset. "I'm gonna use the BFG."
Every game had one -- the Big Friendly Gun, the generic term for the baddest-arse weapon in the world. Lucy had rented this one from the Clan armory for a small fortune in gold and Anda had laughed and called her paranoid, but now Anda helped Lucy set it up and thanked the gamegods for her foresight. It was a huge, demented flaming crossbow that fired five-metre bolts that exploded on impact. It was a beast to arm and a beast to aim, but they had a nice, dug-in position of their own at the bottom of the hill and it was there that they got the BFG set up, deployed, armed and ranged.
"Fire!" Lucy called, and the game did this amazing and cool animation that it rewarded you with whenever you loosed a bolt from the BFG, making the gamelight dim towards the sizzling bolt as though it were sucking the illumination out of the world as it arced up the hillside, trailing a comet-tail of sparks. The game played them a groan of dismay from their enemies, and then the bolt hit home with a crash that made her point-of-view vibrate like an earthquake. The roar in her headphones was deafening, and behind it she could hear Lucy on the voice-chat, cheering it on.
"Nuke 'em till they glow and shoot 'em in the dark! Yee-haw!" Lucy called, and Anda laughed and pounded her fist on the desk. Gobbets of former enemy sailed over the treeline dramatically, dripping hyper-red blood and ichor.
In her bedroom, Anda caressed the controller-pad and her avatar punched the air and did a little rugby victory dance that the All-Blacks had released as a limited edition promo after they won the World Cup .
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Exerpt taken from 'Anda's Game' by Cory Doctorow. Get the whole Story attached at the bottom of the page as pdf. (CC-License)
Evereyday Objects
Everyday objects, Dinge des Alltags schaffen es immer wieder uns für kurze Zeit aus der Gegenwart des Physischen zu entführen.
Das kann zum einen ganz einfach durch etwas geschehen, das wir sehen, und als Startobjekt für eine Ausflug in Erinnerung/Phantasie benutzen, oder etwas weniger abstrakt, indem wir es für eine Handlung benutzen.
Am Beispiel eine Mobiltelefons möchte ich dies kurz erlätern.
..tbc.. (noch unfertig)
-- GameDanielWahl - 29 Nov 2004
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