Maybe Make Some Change
Maybe Make Some Change is a piece of fiction by Aaron Reed where you are a soldier in Afganistan who only knows how to do one thing. Shoot. As the story progresses you unlock more and more options to use. In the background of the main text, you see sentences that don’t relate to the main story. For example, while you are encountered with a civvie you can see a passage in the background talking about an attorney. You then realize that you have to use the new options you unlocked on objects in the background.
These are:
Miss Uncle
Listen to Trainer
Hug leader
Calm Attorney
Threaten Sargent
Warn Blogger
Once you go through all these you get a text conversation with the soldier we are playing as, Adam, talking with his dad about how his fellow soldiers had planned a premeditated murder of Afgani people.
This is one of the most impactful stories I’ve experienced for this class. The story does a real good job of making you feel like you are in this situation and gets you invested in trying to find another way around this other than just shooting. The piece portrays a feeling of hopelessness and doubt better than most things I’ve read
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