Since the 1990s the home computer has enabled games creators the necessary flexibility to mirror the fictional games found in the imaginative writings of authors and bring them to life through the use of clever graphics. The home computer with its own virtual world provided a place in which imaginative design teams could bring to life demons, dragons and all kinds of ghoulish monsters with a vividness only found at the cinemas. Not only that but because much of the hard work had already been accomplished by the author of the fictional games, a general tweaking of the rules and guidelines to be followed in the virtual game made it possible for the production of fictional games to emerge fairly quickly. Not only do electronic fictional games offer graphics that push the imaginative barriers beyond anything previously experienced in the games world, but together with impressive audio playback many fictional games also provide an increased sense of atmospheric absorption. Delivering the player into a virtual fictional games world through a complex audio visual playback that demands concentration helps fool the human senses into almost believing in the reality of fictional games as they take on a life of their own.
It is also worthy of note that electronic games produced of fictional games are not merely aimed at a young player. Fictional games are produced to challenge all age groups thereby making them a particularly attractive commercial product. Electronic fictional games continue to attract more and more enthusiastic followers because anyone who has enjoyed a story can relive it in a virtual world and face the same challenges as described in the story that they enjoyed so much. It seems reasonable to suggest that humans tend to be stimulated by challenges and because the virtual world can place us within an environment that we have read about and thereby possess some perception of understanding electronic fictional games will likely continue to be popular. How they improve will be the most demanding aspect of the electronic fictional games designers. Certainly it is necessary to capture the interest and concentration of players, and it seems likely that the next human sense needing to be captured in such a way will likely be the sense of touch. An educated guess would suggest that playing games at a console will soon require some form of electronic gloves in order that a sense of touch brings even more realism to the players.
Bringing fictional games to life has never been easier or more demanding because anyone who has enjoyed a story and interpreted an author’s rules relating to fictional games will expect to find all the significant features mentioned contained within the virtual world in which the fictional games are played.