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Come Wit’ It: Lessons Learned in the Video Game Arena explores some important life lessons that are often learned while playing video games. The authors, Jomo & Jelani Greenidge, both prolific writers in their own right, have teamed up together for the first time on this expose of video game culture.

Here is a brief excerpt:

Many of our generation are video gamers who have, either consciously or subconsciously, learned these lessons with great success. Many of these people spent their youth focusing their creativity on video games; years later, they continue with the same creativity and zeal in focusing their attention to the pursuit of their own professions, even though it may have nothing at all to do with video games.

Our response to this trend is to explain these principles as well as we can, with the hope that:

A) Non-gaming parents and teachers would mine this book for applicable truths with the goal of creating valuable interactions with their youth, thereby engaging them in a manner that is both relevant and interesting,

B) Kids who love video games would learn these same truths without having to be lectured by their parents and teachers, and

C) Successful adult gamers would recognize these same truths as ideas they’ve intuitively grasped for years, but never seen expressed like this. This would also have the added benefit of helping them defend video game culture to a non-gaming world.

Here you can read the entire contents of the book. As we release levels, we will post there here on this page.

• Come Wit’ It: An Introduction
• Level 1: The Battle Royale (Melvin vs. Jacob)
• Level 2: I Wouldn’t Go There!

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