As humans we have the capability of "change"......

Recently one of the pieces that I looked at was called "Maybe Make Some Change" by Aaron Reed. It was an e-lit piece about how in the late 2000's there was a huge presence of US soldiers in Iran and Afghanistan. As a result there were many instances in insubordination within the platoons. An issue of unlawful killings motivated by profiling the indigenous people there as threats due to recent terrorist events. Also, I don't know exactly but there had seem to be some psychological factors involved as well. Many soldiers within their platoon were afraid to tell and kept their mouth shut about it. Well that type of soldier is representing within the game and it's based on a real story.

To represent this real world issue within a interactive format, the player starts out as a soldier and apparently this soldier seems to be on trial because the background noise is the actual soldier who witness everything speaking. Also, there are multiple voices speaking of the events that occurred. Some of them sound like lawyers or some legal people in a certain position to speak about it. There are news segments used as background noise as well. Certain actions can be used in order to progress through the game. One thing that pointed out to me about this piece is the first action you have to do is shoot. This specific action right there explains the whole purpose of the piece. Without using any other actions they shoot first and ask questions later. As the player it was hard for me to keep to keep typing in the shoot command. Honestly this part really pulls the player in the soldiers shoes. Once the "shoot" command is used a couple times then comes hear. Hear almost seem like you were a witness to it instead the one committing the killings. Is to say the player hears it but can't do anything. Then I think comes warn. Warn still seemed like the witness to me and maybe even the victims point of view. Various actions come available to the player as they progress throughout the piece.

Make Some Change Walkthrough

E-lit pieces like these are more effective on a interactive format. As stated before we got a small dose of what it feels like to be in an soldier shoes around that time. It was as if we were actually acting out the actions we put in. Honestly as a reader and writer, I think interacted with a story like this is better than reading it. Being able to interact with stories looks like is the future for literature. The future looks bright for e-lit, especially if pieces such as this are being created.