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Acting Video Games,
There are now video games on the market for all kinds of subject matters we have never seen before—including the fine art of acting.
As a hypothetical example: In one acting game, the character is not having the best of days. His spaceship collided with another ship after he sailed outside the atmosphere of earth. He (your character in the game) is a member of the Crop Circles Investigative Division of the Galaxy. Unfortunately, the collision destroyed part of the life support supply on his vessel, part of which is destroyed. Not only is he in trouble by his superiors for that wreckage, but he is also liable for the damage to the other ship. Now he must find out what type of ship he has collided with, whether they are enemy of friend, check for survivors and find out what repairs they will need to survive.

When a mysterious fellow member of the group he works for pulls him into a rebellion that’s about to boil over, what does he have to lose? He chooses to risk turning his back on his Division and facing the incredible odds against him—by joining with the other ship in rebellion.

This is a similar premise to many acting video games, point-and-click adventure games online or through video game manufacturers. Such games are science-fiction tales full of colorful characters, strange places, and plenty of dark humor.

In a point-and-click adventure game, you use a cursor to pick up, use (sometimes in conjunction with other objects), and examine objects. Like many other new and popular on-line video games, your character can sometimes even interact live on-line with other characters. You will use the cursor to click on places where you want the main character to go. Their may be fighting, scheming, and other tests of logic and improvisational ability.

Actors and Acting games
Of course, to really help refine an actors improvisational abilities, there have always been role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons or Vampires, but there are also less dark and demonic acting games one can play.

Often in an acting class there will be one or two acting games that the teacher uses to warm up the students—or just to get them into a constant state of stage presence. There are also board games that enhance ones acting ability—games such as charades.

Actors and actors groups often design their own acting games like the ones you see on TV improvisational shows like the one hosted by Drew Carry.

Such types of acting games are a good exercise for the aspiring actor—likely more so than video acting games.