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A Guide for the Quest to the Unlived Life

Natural selection has created the only video game that really matters. Here’s how to beat it.

We can learn a lot from playing video games.

Despite the thousands of storylines that have been created by game developers everywhere, there is a compelling formula to a game’s narrative that makes it fun to play. Whether you’re playing within the family-friendly Mario franchise or enjoying the ridiculously-violent God of War anthology, the underlying framework of their storylines follows the same formulaic arc dating back to hero mythologies from thousands of years ago.

When you start playing any video game, you are entering the realm of the game’s creators for the very first time. You start off as a nobody — a townsman in the local village, a plumber fixing toilets, a simple farmer harvesting crops. You start at the ground level, with an ordinary and pretty unremarkable existence.