The main character works as a Paranormal investigator, runs his own magazine, gets drawn into the high tech scene and all that like I mentioned in the initial post, but he also starts to think more about gamers and such as he starts meet all these people in the tech world, including like professional gamers...
Here's some of what I put on my tumblr:
'ExXception Draft' is about a world where reaction against violent video games gets violently out of control, and how one man with his own theories on play reacts.
It sounds kind of sadistic, like it's a Saw remake or something, but really, it's less about torture and more about something about how... well, I think superheroes always have their perfect villains. Kind of how Jung's(?) I think, idea of the shadow, works. Where you have a 'dark' part of you, not necessarily evil, but a part that is not manifest, that somehow 'seeds' you, or that you grow from, sometimes as "simply" as through a night spent dreaming.
I always thought the Joker was Batman's 'shadow', or as you would normally say, 'arch nemesis', again with Jung, the idea of the 'archetype.' So...
My character is a 'game-maker', who, may create games that make people grow, and this may involve transgression or 'challenges/dares/missions' that involve illegal or illicit behavior. I have only brainstormed mostly.
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So, I'm kind of taking it as the flip side of how people always say that gaming is a waste of time / "get a real job" etc, with the idea that there is revolutionary potential to see that the real waste of time is the traditional concepts of wasting your time in a dead end job you have no interest in... and contemplating radical changes in the way you live is a part of 'play' and hence a part of gaming, acting out fantasy, imagining and just plain freedom.