Epiphanies, Theories, and Downright Good Thoughts . . . . . . Made While Playing Video Games - Softcover

Faltot, J. C. L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1462066607 ISBN 13: 9781462066605

Publisher: iUniverse, 2012

Synopsis

A lot of people play video games. A lot of people think they have good, even great, ideas. So what happens when these two worlds collide? Well, Epiphanies, Theories, and Downright Good Thoughts . . . tries to answer these questions for us. The video game industry has boomed into a monster of the consumer market and though we may not realize it, this unstoppable machine has left a fingerprint on the generation that has grown up playing them. And by fingerprint, we mean a giant freaking punch. So now, only now, we are beginning to see what years of video game-playing, sitting-in-front-of-the-tv-for hours, learning-to-use-surge-protectors has done to our future. One such pioneer who survived this dangerous time is our author, J.C.L. Faltot, who takes a serious, albeit sarcastic, look into the machine that is the video game monster. How video games have helped shape the market, touched the lives of those who play them, and defined people like Faltot for the rest of his life. For better or for worse. And perhaps in many ways (as you will find along Faltot's estranged journey) it's often a little bit of both.

About this title

About the Author

J.C.L. (Josh) Faltot, currently working for a broker in the insurance industry, has a bachelor's degree in business administration from Mount Union College and is a native of Pennsylvania. He currently resides just outside of Cleveland, OH and has lived there for four years since his graduation. This is his first entry in the world of publication but he plans to write more works based on this title scheme. Besides his obvious video game interests, he is active in local baseball leagues (both playing and coaching) and bowls in a league during the winter months. Josh also serves as a council member for the charity "Courageous Steps for Parkinson's", based out of Brecksville, OH. The group raises money and awareness for Parkinson's Disease, a degenerative condition that afflicted his father before Josh was born. Though he claims to be a dog lover, he has no pets (aside from a very large Aloe plant). The rest of his family, which includes five brothers and no sisters, resides in and around the Pittsburgh, PA area.

Edition details

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1462066607
• ISBN 13: 9781462066605
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128