Writing for 11/1

Date : 11/1

Time starting : 9.34 p.m

Idea I am pursuing : Why video games can actually help the player in question

Time ending :  9.49 p.m

Video games are a form of entertainment which revolve around the individual role-playing as the main character in a virtual world on a device or console Most popular video games use English as their main form of language. At the same time, it is safe to say that mastering English proficiency is a matter of importance especially toward non-native English speaker for English is a widely used language all over the world. 

This is true especially in the case of games that involve a ton of reading in order to proceed further into the story-line. For example, the “Civilization” game series revolve around building an empire from the beginning of the stone age all the way toward the futuristic era. Trying to progress through those kind of game will involve plenty of reading as well as English knowledge since some of the words used are quite sophisticated and rarely used in daily conversations.

There are multiple types of video games such as first-person shooter, open-world, massive multiplayer (MMO) , mobile games on smart-phone or strategy-based games. Strategy-based games are video games that are related with making tons of choices that will affect how the story-line of the players progress. These sort of games will always involve reading more and more texts of English words before a point where the players have to make a choice which might lead to different endings. 

One of the type of video games that are heavily classified as decision-making games are “Light Novels”. Light novels, as their name imply, is basically a novel but with animation, pictures as well as voices of the characters. Usually, a player will assume the role of the protagonist of the story in the novel and make decisions in the story-line that will affect the fate of himself as well as the side characters involved in the decisions made. These concept of game will help people to learn English if they found that reading novels through books being tedious or tiresome. It is like killing two birds with one stone as the player is technically playing games but are still reading English vocabularies at the same time.