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It is very accessible for the non-gamer as well.
I dare say it might make even the biggest non-gamer want to pick up a virtual gun and dive into "Black Ops."
The recent explosion of so-called casual gaming has brought new populations into the fold and threatens to forever blur the distinction between "gamer" and "non-gamer."
It might not quite be Mortal Kombat, but McGonigal's treatise is an epic read and, as a non-gamer, I am a prime target.
"From the beginning, our focus at Digital Legends has been the non-gamer," said Founder and Creative Director Rob McConnell.
The average non-gamer sees a moving image on a screen, sees some sort of input device, be it a keyboard, mouse or joystick, and figures that two plus two equals four.
It's one thing to hand a guidance-filled version of Forza to a seasoned Xbox player; will that same version do much for an utter non-gamer who shows up for free racecars?
Each game has been designed to be very accessible, using only the stylus on the Nintendo DS, so a non-gamer can have fun instantly,' said Denis Dore, producer of the game. '
In his 2007 essay on the game in Hobby Games: The 100 Best, British author and game designer Marc Gascoigne stated that Once Upon a Time is "one of the best ways [he had] ever found to grab a non-gamer by their imagination and fling them into our world".