>> Hey, hey, hey.
Hello, hello, hello.
It's me; it's me; it's me.
Again, again, and again.
Welcome to another edition of the "Write.
Right. Rite," where we are experiencing
expressing ourselves however we want
in ritual, right?
This is the ritual of expressing
ourselves how we choose.
I'm your host and the person who is creating
these prompts, your man Jason Reynolds,
National Ambassador of Young
People's Literature.
This, I'm sure, interests many of you.
This is a Nintendo Switch, right?
Let's see what I got on here right now.
Right now, I think I'm playing,
I'm playing Mario Kart.
You see that?
Now, I don't play it often, but I do play it?
Right, every now and then, when I'm bored.
And right now, when I'm, you know, in the
house, I've been fooling around with it a bit.
And it's fun.
It's good, right?
Nothing wrong with it.
I think we have to -- it's okay.
It's fun. But I think one thing we forget
is that we could do this ourselves.
We could make up our own video games.
See where we're going here.
So what I want you all to do this time is I
want you to come up with your own video game,
your own storyline, your own characters.
What's the point, the premise?
What's the plot?
Like, how -- what's the goal, right?
What are we trying to beat?
Who's the enemy?
Is it an adventure game?
Is it role-playing game?
Is it a shooter game?
Is it a storytelling game?
Is it like Final Fantasy?
Or is it like Call of Duty?
Or what is it, right?
You let yourself imagine what that is.
And you write your video game down,
what that video game would be.
See, sometimes, we forget that video games ain't
nothing but books in graphics that are moving,
books in animation that we're
actually controlling, right?
Stories, that's all they are.
So you get to write your own,
and let me know how it goes.
I'll see y'all on the next one.
But before I go, by the way, tell your
cousin, you know the one that works
down at the government office,
tell her I like her new hairstyle.
Fly. Peace.