Draft Essay

[Basic Outline]

Title: Can games become more than just entertainment?

Introduction: 
Can games become more of a serious device for helping people deal with emotional issues? Comparison between games and movies/books as a medium and how games are a relatively new medium.  

Cultural differences in the way serious issues are portrayed

Day of the Dead
Obon Festival
Disney
Ghibli

How games have addressed these issues
The End
Tale of tales
Grim Fandango?

 Positive effects that narrative can have on the audience.
Children understanding death. Being able to encourage and initiate dialogue between parents and children about difficult subjects.

What does the future hold for games being more serious
 
Conclusion.

Can games for children move into seriousness?

Introduction:

Video games are synonymous with entertainment and having fun but can they become more than that? Over the years movies and books have addressed important issues as well as being entertaining, there are even examples of them being produced with the express purpose of helping the audience to deal with difficult emotions. Games are a bit behind the other popular entertainment mediums because as an industry it is still in its infancy, but with the dramatic expansion over the past few years and the inclusion of more and more groups of people in its demographic, does the games industry have a responsibility to address more serious issues? In this essay I would like to explore whether games have the potential to become more serious and to help children deal with emotional issues in the same way films have.