I’ve never played a video game but I do find the art form fascinating, for example Breath Pirates, an interactive fiction video game from 1997 by Mike Snyder. Breath Pirates was the introduction to a trilogy called The Oxygen Wars which, unfortunately, was never written. The premise of the game is that something caused a decline in Earth’s natural oxygen. As oxygen becomes scarce and the air thins, this leads to a war. As much as the game is a sci-fi fantasy, it seems strangely close to home today when corporations compete over who owns, governs and influences natural resources like water and air.
