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Second Skin, by Purewest Films (www.secondskinfilm.com) is new, movie/documentary about online games and MMORPGs.
What’s interesting here is they take 7 gamers whose lives changed forever because of virtual worlds. The movie tackles identity, community, economy, love, addiction and many other facets of this growing worldwide “boom”. The movie states that 50 million people play MMORPGs – your friend, relative, officemate, classmate or even your mom could be a gamer.
Their official movie site details the film more: “Second Skin takes an intimate look at computer gamers whose lives have been transformed by the emerging genre of Massively Multiplayer Online games (MMOs). World of Warcraft, Second Life, and Everquest allow millions of users to simultaneously interact in virtual spaces. Second Skin introduces us to couples who have fallen in love without meeting, disabled players who have found new purpose, addicts, Chinese gold-farming sweatshop workers, wealthy online entrepreneurs and legendary guild leaders – all living in a world that doesn’t quite exist.”
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GM T, back in the 1990s, did you ever think that our hobby would evolve into this? We’ve experienced first-hand the social issues that are being tackled in this documentary, albeit on a smaller scale. This is especially true of the desire to escape from reality, the obsession, the effect that obsession has on the ones around us, how to cope and ultimately, redemption and balance.
We know how real an imaginary world can get, how what happens there can have repercussions on relationships and self-perception.
Now, we see the rest of the world following in our footsteps.
I wonder how things will look like in a decade?
PS: Sayang you didn’t drop by nung Holy Week. The food was great and we had a helluva good time.
Honestly, I never did imagine it will be like this. Back then, I knew that games would bring me places and I had this gut feeling that all this gaming would be the start of something big. Now it feeds my family and I am able to fulfill a lifelong dream.
I used to think that working for a gaming company would be an unreachable goal. It just goes to show what passion, dedication and a sincere love for what you’re doing will bring in the success.
love what you do and success will follow. Methinks in a decade, we will see technology evolve to something like science fiction. Transfer of information through the net will be in speeds unconceivable. Exciting!