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Awesome interview. Hope to see more of this in the future. I'm actually thinking of trying out one of bleet's games, particularly Fleshchild, so I'll most likely get to it soon!

EDIT: And wow, Thailand certainly has a large RPG Maker community judging from Aito Loki Heart's YouTube channel.

Yay! My blog is featured! :D

If I may, can I request a game to be featured on Looking Back in the future?

Say, The Sword and the Fish?

@Sagitar: Nope. Not exactly correct. Games can or can not be a form of escapism. There are people who play games so as to escape from their problems and stress, without them even knowing that they actually are escaping from problems and stress by doing so. They play games so as to temporarily escape from their problems and not to think of them. Games are also a form where gamers can achieve things they cannot achieve in real life, for example, wheel-chaired.

You should consider watching the anime ".hack//SIGN", and you'll understand what I mean. The moral of the story of that anime does tell how games can be a form of escapism and how one can use games to escape from the harsh facts of real life.

The mask is what we wear every day in social situations where to express oneself honestly isn't always an acceptable option. Our masks actually come off when we play games or go online. This has consequences both bad (think YouTube commenters) and good: while society often demands conformity and cynicism from younger generations especially, games give us a venue where we are instead rewarded for expressing our creative selves with fiery pride and passion.

And this is where escapism can come in. If you're not bold enough to shed off the mask in real life, but only able to do so in game life, that's basically escaping from real life. Computer game life is NOT Real Life, so to speak. In a computer game life, the only thing that's within the game is your brain/mind, but not your body. In real life, however, both body and mind come into play. Escapism will play a great role when one is obsessed with a computer game, but not so much when one isn't. There still is escapism though.
So saying that games as escapism are a "myth" is not correct, because clearly, escapism exists in it, be it big or small. And like what Irili said, escapism isn't necessarily a bad thing.

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Honestly, I don't know why people care that much about makerscore. It's nice to see it getting bigger cause it means you're doing something, but having makerscore as a target is just weird.

Sense of self-achievement, basically. Numbers are that accurate and powerful.