People making digital worlds .

[suhail Al ketbi]

I hold an accredited diploma in digital filmmaking and internal perspective, though I have forgotten its skills by now. And yet—despite the fact that it is all mathematics and coordinates, textures and light, and other elements you already know—the digital world is truly wondrous.

To create a simulated world is genuinely spellbinding; it astonishes and leaves even the most composed mind perplexed. Had the ancients witnessed it, they would have stood in awe.

Abu Dhabi Sports Channel 1 broadcasts live digital games, bringing together many players—human beings—while a giant screen displays the game to the audience, as the players sit before their computers.

On MBC Action as well, I see a lone player playing Super Mario.

These scenes awaken sweet memories, like watching a famous American actress from the Supernatural series playing while we watched her.