Game as a Medium: Love You to Bits

My favorite game is an app in the App Store that I found by chance. Called “Love You to Bits,” it has you play as an alien that must travel throughout the galaxy to retrieve his robot girlfriend’s scattered parts and memories.  It is a fantastic game with very stylized, detailed graphics, smooth animation, and unique levels that are each a puzzle very different from each other. I love the level of creativity that went into developing this game, and the variety of puzzles within puzzles really keeps the player stimulated and interested.

I think that this game can be considered “literature” because it has a great story, a central character with a goal, and well fleshed-out worlds – one on each level. When you find a piece of the robot girlfriend’s memories, you can watch an animated video clip of the found memory. Each memory is a unique moment that the central character and his girlfriend spent together, and through them you learn more about their personalities. It’s like how one learns more about characters’ personalities as they read further into a novel or watch further into a movie. Each section of each level keeps the player wondering what’s going to happen.

I don’t really play games, but playing this game – the first game I’ve played with an extensive world and story – makes me see games differently. They are not only fun but also very mentally stimulating. Love You to Bits is one that I can imagine being a book series for young readers or a comic book series.

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